Does oscommerceuse compiled code?

[whitsey]

Hoping someone can explain the architecture of oscommerce for me because something happened I am at a loss to explain.

I wanted to add additional information to the order email so I found the code and edited the file I believe built the email: checkout_process.php.

I added in 2 lines of code and it appeared to work as expected - my emails were now containing the extra information.

Side Note: I have had a problem recently (which I don't think is related but will add for additional context) where the web server reached capacity and shutdown. I cleaned it out and restarted and all was fine (this issues started happening after this).

My Problem: the last 2 email orders that have been received have dropped the information I added. I have gone back into the file and the code is still there - everything surrounding it is being included except the code I added.

I simply "touched" the file so that it had a last modified date of today, tested the process again and voilà! The information is back again, appearing as expected!

Can anyone explain how this could possibly happen? Perhaps oscommerce operates on compiled version of the code which somehow reverted?

While the problem is fixed now, I'd really like to understand what could possibly have happened to cause this?

Any help would be appreciated.

[♥bruyndoncx]

you might have some optimizer on the website, oscommerce itself doesn't use compiled code, but as a performance optimization your webhost might have zend or apc or other thing running

 

you should ask your webhost to be sure

[whitsey]

Thanks for your response.

 

After some digging I discovered that there is a separate email order process that is used when purchases are made through paypal - checkout_process is not used and instead, paypal_notify is used.

 

I have copied the code across the the 2nd file.

 

Is there a chance there is another email file that I have missed somewhere?