Compatibility Between OSCommerce & Classic ASP

[OAOSCommerce]

Hi,

 

I have a classic ASP website and related CMS running on a Windows server.

 

I am looking into the possibility of utilising OSCommerce to drive the e-commerce aspects of the site.

 

Are members of the forum aware of any compatibility issues between OSCommerce and classic ASP and whether what I am trying to do is achievable?

 

Are there any issues and potential solutions that I should be aware of?

 

Many thanks in advance for your assistance.

[MrPhil]

Well, osC is written in PHP and uses MySQL for the database. If the server provides those services (they are separate additions), and recognizes index.php as the store's entry point, it should work. People run osC on IIS (Windows) servers all the time, so that part is possible. osC doesn't even know what ASP is, so it shouldn't have any bad reactions to living alongside ASP. If in turn, ASP agrees not to molest PHP applications, they should be able to live in peace. Naturally, your ASP site is going to have to be able to link to osC's entry point: /store/index.php, and visitors going into the store can either back their way out of the store, or you can add a link (custom programming) in osC's code to jump back to some .asp file after the customer has checked out or wishes to exit early. The only "gotcha" there is that when you leave the store, you may lose any shopping cart contents (and your signed-on presence), depending on how a Windows server handles sessions, so you probably can't arbitrarily jump back and forth between the store and the rest of the site (same problem applies to Apache servers; it's not unique to IIS).

[OAOSCommerce]

Well, osC is written in PHP and uses MySQL for the database. If the server provides those services (they are separate additions), and recognizes index.php as the store's entry point, it should work. People run osC on IIS (Windows) servers all the time, so that part is possible. osC doesn't even know what ASP is, so it shouldn't have any bad reactions to living alongside ASP. If in turn, ASP agrees not to molest PHP applications, they should be able to live in peace. Naturally, your ASP site is going to have to be able to link to osC's entry point: /store/index.php, and visitors going into the store can either back their way out of the store, or you can add a link (custom programming) in osC's code to jump back to some .asp file after the customer has checked out or wishes to exit early. The only "gotcha" there is that when you leave the store, you may lose any shopping cart contents (and your signed-on presence), depending on how a Windows server handles sessions, so you probably can't arbitrarily jump back and forth between the store and the rest of the site (same problem applies to Apache servers; it's not unique to IIS).

 

Hi,

 

Thank you very much for this encouraging posting, I will push ahead with integrating osC into my site.

 

Many thanks,

 

OA.