WOW…just wow.
Congrats bro. I am truly shocked. I haven’t read a paragraph in months loaded with more crap than yours. I had to read it twice and its still cracking me up. Calling your perspective limited, would be an understatement.
> ZenCart: I’ve never used it so I can’t comment.
I think you shouldn’t have commented on osCommerce either cause it really seems you don’t know much about it at all.
> Its dead
Yup. It’s as dead as Sitepoint. Oh wait a minute, Sitepoint has a PR 7, I wonder what PR osCommerce has. Hmmm.
> Anyone who says differently is selling something.
No, anyone who says differently knows at least A LITTLE BIT about osCommerce.
> OsCommerce has been in a release candidate alpha build since Jan-2008 (coming on two years now),
> and their attempt to create 3.0 seems futile.
osCommerce Online Merchant v3.0 Alpha 5 is available for download on http://www.oscommerce.com/solutions/downloads and if you have any positive or negative comments to make about it, feel free to discuss it with a quarter Million osc community members.
> If you go this route, you WILL have to get your hands dirty.
Correction. Any route you go, you will have to get your hands dirty. The thing with osCommerce is,it has the MOST amount of paper towels laying around.
> If you are not a PHP developer, you will either have to rent one or become one quickly.
If you are developing, this statement pretty much applies to any php software out there.But it totally depends on what you are trying to do. There are people out there in their 60s, who pull in monthly sales in the $xx,xxx area with their fairly standard osCommerce sites and don’t know A SINGLE THING about code, scripting or php whatsoever.
> The modules you buy are not modules but rather instructions on how to hack the core code.
modules you buy??? ok what module did you buy??? and where did you buy it from???
This statement kinda tells me that you are full of it and have no clue what you are talking about. There are over 5,000 add-on “modules” called contributions for osCommerce, which you can simply DOWNLOAD, no purchase necessary.
Also, most companies out there which provide custom developed osCommerce modules offer installation service. Then there are also companies, who will offer installation service for the publicly available contributions. I am really curious to find our which module you bought and from where, if that’s indeed the case.
> not modules but rather instructions on how to hack the core code.
Jeeez. Do YOU EVEN KNOW what a module is? Contributions contain instructions how to modify current files. Often there are new files which need to be uploaded in order for the contribution to work properly. Have you ever edited a php.ini that lists the module you want to use and you uncomment it by removing the semicolon at the beginning of the line. What is the difference here?
> I guess the good news here is that you don’t have to worry about updates breaking your hacks
> because there are no updates…
yeah, you guess. You’ve been guessing a lot lately, haven’t you?
This is just another one of these statements which proves your expertise in osCommerce being equivalent to zero. There are more daily updates to contributions than you can possibly handle.
As a matter of fact, some of the most recent updates are Auto Installers for several of the popular contributions. (Maybe its a module now that it has an Auto Installer?)
You can’t be further away from the truth. The challenge in osCommerce does NOT lie in breaking the cart due to a “must have core upgrade”. The challenge for newbies when starting off with a default osCommerce store - other than understanding how things work - is to:
a, Find the proper contribution(s)
b, Install them
c, Have multiple contributions work together seamlessly
So the real good news is, that the news you posted were simply not true
Read this, a couple times if you have to:
"osCommerce has attracted a large growing e-commerce community that consists of over 221,500 store owners and developers who support each other and extend osCommerce Online Merchant with add-ons being contributed on a daily basis. To date there are over 5,700 add-ons that are available for free to customize osCommerce Online Merchant online stores and to help increase sales.
osCommerce Online Merchant is an Open Source online shop e-commerce solution that is available for free under the GNU General Public License. It features a rich set of out-of-the-box online shopping cart functionality that allows store owners to setup, run, and maintain online stores with minimum effort and with no costs, fees, or limitations involved.
With over 8 years of operation, osCommerce has built a showcase of over 12,700 online shops that have been voluntarily added to the live shops section, and powers many thousands of more online shops worldwide."