[email protected] Posted March 7, 2003 Posted March 7, 2003 I am just starting to understand osCommerce and want to ask the community members how they handle management of their sites. Specifically, I have the following questions. How do you manage your customizations? It appears that most customized sites are modifying php code inline. How do you migrate these customizations to new releases? Does the use of stylesheets help? It appears that osCommerce places the product images in the same directory as the images used for site decoration. I am concerned that this co-mingling may cause problems with upgrades in the future. Larry Cannell [email protected]
Guest Posted March 8, 2003 Posted March 8, 2003 How do you manage your customizations? It appears that most customized sites are modifying php code inline. Most people have a mirror of their website on a local machine that is setup running Apache web server, PHP, Mysql and PHPmyadmin - along with their favourite text editors, graphics editors etc. I make changes locally, test them thoroughly - then upload them to my webserver. Backup frequently. Things can still go wrong, so here is a good tip on getting notifications of errors on your website: http://www.oscommerce.com/forums/viewtopic.php?t=35083 How do you migrate these customizations to new releases? Can be a pain. There are plenty of posts on this subject in these forums - just search. Many grab a snapshot and stick with it - a good option now is MS1 - I think a lot of contributions will now center on this release. Does the use of stylesheets help? Yes... stylesheets are a godsend - oscommerce uses them It appears that osCommerce places the product images in the same directory as the images used for site decoration. I am concerned that this co-mingling may cause problems with upgrades in the future. Partly yes - it is a curious thing, and I don't know why oscommerce doesn't have a products_images directory by default. I have not gotten around to looking at this yet, but certainly will - it can definitely be changed..... there may be a post or two on the subject.
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