masster Posted January 17, 2004 Share Posted January 17, 2004 This is a feature that I really don't know how to implement for OSCommerce. What is it about? Well, here's the scenario: there is an online shop for company A. Company A has many dealers of which some have poor speed on the Internet. So, the solution would be an offline version of the main shop. I am thinking at something packed to an executable file, a special ODBC driver and some text-like database, so that when main shop updates its database, an archived update file is sent to all dealers. Sounds feasable? Another scenario could involve an offline OSCommerce demo shop ready for download and browsed locally. Please e-mail me because I am not notified about replies (although I checked the appropriate checkbox in my profile) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Posted January 18, 2004 Share Posted January 18, 2004 You could do this with a product like EasyPHP combined with Easy Populate. Each dealer would actually be running the full version of osCommerce locally on their PC or an intranet server. The manufacturer could send out CSV files to update the database as necessary. Or you could drop Easy Populate and do something like a database diff to make the necessary changes (or just replace the product tables with every update). Hth, Matt Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
♥MYC267 Posted January 18, 2004 Share Posted January 18, 2004 You could just install Apache+MySQL+PHP on their machine and run it all locally. That's what I have on my laptop as my development environment. That would be much easier to do... Dan Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
masster Posted January 18, 2004 Author Share Posted January 18, 2004 Thank you for your answer. Yes, that's true, both solutions are feasable. But I have to mention something else: the dealers that I mentioned about don't have a clue about installing Apache+PHP+MySQL locally (this is real world, you know...) and they are hundred of miles away from compsny A so I can't travel across country to install and configure their servers. So, my question still stands: a packed to exe PHP OSCommerce store or a convertion of all PHP files and links to static HTML will do the job. I stumbled across a little proggy called Triplehash Serlient 1.8 (hxxp://www.triplehash.com) that looks promissing. What do you think? Please e-mail me about answering. That damn notification still doesn't work Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rminchrist Posted January 18, 2004 Share Posted January 18, 2004 I have just downloaded osCommercer from a Cybercafe. My friend who uses it [commerical link removed] told me he uses it. I also had it but not a downloaded "stuff" I want to go and try it out in my laptop which is at home. That will be offline of course. I do know that you will need php and mysql and a webserver, prefereably apache. "et me see if the "offline version" will work. I will get back to you with results. Was also introducing myself to the forum. My name is Michael, I am from Kenya. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rminchrist Posted January 19, 2004 Share Posted January 19, 2004 I am back. I installed it on my computer. I even used IIS, the Windows 2000 webserver. It worked just fie, but of course there were no credit card transtactions. Just download it and install, read the instructions carefully. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rminchrist Posted January 19, 2004 Share Posted January 19, 2004 Download phptriad, it will install all the three, php, apache and mysql server. I don't have time to look for those links now, but when i get back i will search and give you links to for downloading the phptriad. (try and search it in google). After installing phptriad, place all your website folders in a folder called htdocs. i.e. copy the catalog folder into htdocs, the from your browser you can request for it by typing "http://localhost/catalog/" if you want to install, then type "http://localhost/catalog/install/" Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mattice Posted January 19, 2004 Share Posted January 19, 2004 Have a look at Knoppix , it's a cdrom bootable Linux distro that would allow you to create a complete OS with osCommerce on it that could connect to your central database on command, sending a very small CSV file (or XML or whatever) which will be used to file the orders. Mattice "Politics is the art of preventing people from taking part in affairs which properly concern them" Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
masster Posted January 19, 2004 Author Share Posted January 19, 2004 rminchrist, I understand that you are new to OSCommerce, but you have to read again what I've asked for before telling me what I already know for 2 years. mattice, I will try Knoppix and come back. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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