Manic Posted December 3, 2002 Posted December 3, 2002 Bloody hell. Where to begin, where to begin. My hosting is provided by 2100.com (supports mysql/php) - they provide shopping carts and what not, but I needed a Worldpay plugin, so ended up at oscommerce.com I also needed Australian shipping, so hurrah for Steve Kemp and his work on these modules, but... I wouldn't have the faintest idea where to start with PHP. :roll: Should I struggle along with PHP tutorials and go for it? Should I find a simpler off-the-shelf solution? If the latter, does anyone know of one? Or, perhaps, does anyone want to earn a bit of cash just by building what I need? I only have three products to sell, and all of this PHP stuff is doing my head in.
burt Posted December 3, 2002 Posted December 3, 2002 You do not need to know much PHP to get yourself a working shop. You will only need to know PHP if you intend to move away from the "standard" Osc design... Give it a go. Download 2.2 version of Osc, and install on a live server. It takes 10 minutes to do that. Have a play with it. This forum is for help as and when you need it - once you become au fait with it, you'll start helping others... There are many who would be happy to be paid to help you out to get a quick solution for you - the place to start looking is at the "team" page on www.oscommerce.com and there are also many experienced members of these forums willing to help also. HTH
Manic Posted December 3, 2002 Author Posted December 3, 2002 I'm at the team site, have found a local developer and am emailing him
Manic Posted December 3, 2002 Author Posted December 3, 2002 Mark Keith Evans' email just bounced. Oh well. Shall I try for another, or does he hang around here as well?
burt Posted December 3, 2002 Posted December 3, 2002 Marks a top bloke, very helpful. Posts on here as "sparky" - do a search on the member list and send a PM...
Guest Posted December 3, 2002 Posted December 3, 2002 ..by asking for help... My advice... Get the manual from http://www.oscdox.com/ Get phpdev and install it on your machine. This installs apache web server, php and mysql. This is practically a "no brainer" it installs it self.(you will need to set "globals" to "on" manually -find this in apache) Find this at source forge or http://www.firepages.com.au/ Then you can make changes and play around to you hearts content rather rapidly Take some time and experiment..If you really get things screwed up...a reinstall takes about 2 minutes....and when you hit a wall...24/7 support is here
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