no programming or technical knowledge needed

[Neufusion]

I found this amusing:

"osCommerce Online Merchant is a free online shop e-commerce solution under continuous development by the open source community. Its core features allows store owners to setup, run, and maintain their online stores with absolutely no software costs or license fees involved, and with no programming or technical knowledge needed."

Which is why I chose this cart for my client. They have issues with code editing and FTP file management.

 

First thing I tried to do was change the logo.

Poked around all of the menus... nope

Googled and found info on a file that needs to be edited. Tried editing through file manager... nope.

Googled more and found some documentation on how to do it:

"Change the osCommerce Logo

 

This article assumes you know a few basic things about managing your store, such as:

Uploading and downloading with FTP

Editing and saving PHP files

 

Using your favorite FTP client, upload your logo to the /catalog/images/ directory of your

store.

 

Download the file catalog/includes/header.php and open it in a text editor.

 

Find this code:

 

<td valign="middle"><?php echo '<a href="' . tep_href_link (FILENAME_DEFAULT ) . '">' . tep_image(

DIR_WS_IMAGES . 'oscommerce.gif', 'osCommerce') . '</a>'; ?> </td>

 

Most of this you want to leave exactly as it is. Replace oscommerce.gif with the name of

your file. Make sure you leave in the single quotes (') as they are very important."

 

 

Haha programming and technical knowledge are not only needed, but are REQUIRED.

 

Is this seriously the only way to update the logo? It blows my mind that this is a full fledged shopping cart that doesn't have a simple logo update module.

[burt]

On the other hand I find it amusing that you would choose for your client something that you know nothing about.

That's very foolish.

[♥mdtaylorlrim]

On the other hand I find it amusing that you would choose for your client something that you know nothing about.

That's very foolish.

And I have NEVER in my life ever suggested to a CLIENT that they use an open source solution for a mission critical application unless my services were included for support.

[Guest]

osCommerce COULD be used as is, right out of the box and would be a fully functional shopping cart without any technical knowledge. However, the out of the box version is the 'base' version so if you want 'bells and whistles' the onus is on you to be knowledgeable enough to make the upgrades or smart enough to hire someone more experienced to make the changes.

 

 

 

Chris

[Peper]

I just love osCommerce

 

Back when I thought of an online shop I tried a couple of open source shopping software - failed. With my little html knowledge I found osCommerce to be the tops.

 

Changing the logo's and so on also made me post a few times to get it right, now my shop is a technical advance shopping software no where else to be found only due to the addons.

The support and addons here must be some of the best.

 

Its strange to see that a large part of clicks from my site is clicked on the "Powered by Oscommerce" - makes me wonder why?

[MrPhil]

Is this seriously the only way to update the logo? It blows my mind that this is a full fledged shopping cart that doesn't have a simple logo update module.

By "module", do you mean a function for the store admin to change the logo? I wouldn't see the point of that, as how often are you going to change a logo? It might be better to define the commonly changed items in some central place, and require a simple edit:

define ('LOGO_IMAGE', DIR_WS_IMAGES . 'oscommerce.gif'); // replace by your store's logo
define ('LOGO_TITLE', 'osCommerce');  // replace by string to show your store name

and

<td valign="middle"><?php echo '<a href="' . tep_href_link (FILENAME_DEFAULT ) . '">' . tep_image(LOGO_IMAGE, LOGO_TITLE) . '</a>'; ?> </td>

 

This article assumes you know a few basic things about managing your store, such as:

Uploading and downloading with FTP

Editing and saving PHP files

Well, yeah, if you want to have anything other than the "demo" store, you need to do a little editing of files. osC is not a CMS, but the point is that you don't need to know PHP coding or the innards of a database to use osC. A few days ago I did suggest that there could be a utility page to edit certain pages (intro page, etc.). That could handle the logo image too -- perhaps that would satisfy your desire?

 

A generalized editor might use a schema file for each editable file (perhaps embedded in the file to be edited), that would allow you to change certain parts of any given file. Presumably this general editor would be in the password-protected admin section, so that hackers couldn't run it from a browser and mess up your store. Have to think about it...