How did you find oscommerce in the first place?

[loxly]

Just curious, I found it on sourceforge after I started working with the nukes.

 

How did you find it?

[toolcrazy]

was looking for some decent and free shopping cart software and found http://webmasterworld.com , I happend across a thread that Linda and the forum moderator were getting into a heated discussion about OSC. The moderator was saying that OSC was junk and badly coded and Linda was defending it. Naturally I had to check out what this software was and the rest is history.

[chfields]

I actually found oscommerce when I was trying to find a new host. A couple of them mentioned they had osc as their free shopping cart. I ended up getting OSC but used a host who didn't offer it, but had all the necessities for it. I am glad I found it, I really like the software and the forum.

[loxly]

Actually I found it on sourceforge, but found oscAffiliate first and then installed osc so I could use the affiliate program!

[Guest]

I first came accross osC mentioned on payment providers websites in their lists of compatible software. 8)

[theMusicMan]

Someone on the fantastic phpBB2 forum suggested I look at osC.... one fantastic free Open Source product recommends another fantastic free Open Source product...

 

I use both on my site.... (in sig)

[Guest]

Somebody actually told me about OS Commerce and I dont even remember who it was. :roll:

[Guest]

I came across the exchange project as it used to be known at Hotscripts.com. I had been working away with Akopia Interchange for projects with some complexity and Agora for simple things (both perl) and had been working with PHP for quite a while at that point.

 

I got to wondering what sort of PHP carts were available, and if they were any good so I checked a few out and decided on the exchange project quite quickly and have been pleased with the decision ever since.

[loxly]

I first came accross osC mentioned on payment providers websites in their lists of compatible software. 8)

 

That is an interesting one that I didn't think of until you mentioned it. I have seen that on a couple of merchant account sites. 8)

[AWWWW.WAHWAH]

An automotive shop had it installed but never did anything with it so I basically thought they sold the MS Mouse along with some crappy DVDs. :D

I looked into it and chose it because it's free, gives me almost total control and is user friendly.

[loxly]

For those of you that found it on google, did you come to the oscommerce site directly or did the search send you to sourceforge or hotscripts or someplace like that?

[Guest]

I did a search for "open source shopping cart," and www.oscommerce.com was the first entry. I repeated this now. It's possible that my original search terms were slightly different (perhaps shop rather than shopping, for example).

 

Hth,

Matt

[Hunkah]

I went on a three week long search for it and all the others. I knew I wanted PHP so I set out to look. I found about 40 and started trying them all out. I quickly killed off about 36 of them, but there was about four that started fighting it out. I did tests on them all. The finalists were, PHPShop SunShop DigiShop and OSCommerce. I weeded it to SunShop and OSCommerce. I almost went for SunShop because of the way it looked. Then I found some contributions that would fix what I had problems with in OSC. Then I did the cost part and OSC was the winner. Besides SunShop had encrypted code and that really bugged me. So after a gruelling three weeks of testing and weeding, OSC won! I don't do anything without doing this kind of testing.

Now I can say that OSCommerce is the fat cat of E-com programs, I know this because I tried them all. With all the contributions and the constant upgrades, it is far far better.