You have earned the Master Cook Award for being your own osCommerce Chef. I hope that you thoroughly enjoyed our culinary journey through the topics of this amazing online-shop software. Its framework as an Open Source project makes it possible for us to mix and match, to try and taste, and finally to enjoy the delicious fruits of our labor. Your guests will feel pampered for sure. Chef’s suggestion:Have fun with your shop and never consider it finished; something hard to do given all these exciting options for modifications just sitting here waiting for your skilled hands to get to work…

Shopping cart software is software used in oscommerce to assist people making purchases online, analogous to the American English term ‘shopping cart’. In British English it is generally known as a shopping basket, almost exclusively shortened on websites to ‘basket’.

The software allows online shopping customers to accumulate a list of items for purchase, described metaphorically as “placing items in the shopping cart”. Upon checkout, the software typically calculates a total for the order, including shipping and handling (i.e. postage and packing) charges and the associated taxes, as applicable.

These applications typically provide a means of capturing a client’s payment information, but in the case of a credit card they rely on the software module of the secure gateway provider, in conjunction with the secure payment gateway, in order to conduct secure credit card transactions online.

Some setup must be done in the HTML code of the oscommerce templates, and the shopping cart software must be installed on the server which hosts the site, or on the secure server which accepts sensitive ordering information. E-shopping carts are usually implemented using HTTP cookies or query strings. In most server based implementations however, data related to the shopping cart is kept in the Session object and is accessed and manipulated on the fly, as the user selects different items from the cart. Later at the process of commit, the information is accessed and an order is generated against the selected item thus clearing the shopping cart.

Although the most simple shopping carts strictly allow for an item to be added to a basket to start a checkout process (e.g. the free PayPal shopping cart), most shopping cart software actually provides additional features that an Internet merchant uses to fully manage an online store. Data (products, categories, discounts, orders, customers, etc.) is normally stored in a database and accessed in real time by the software.

Shopping Cart Software is also known as e-commerce software, e-store software, online store software or storefront software.

Open catalog/includes/modules/shipping/usps.php and create a clone, then replace all oscommerce occurrences of the usps expression in the keys or module name with usps1, keeping its upper or lower case spelling intact. Save this new file as usps1.php. suggestion: As this module has the usps expression hidden in other parameters, you have to be very careful when doing the search and replace. There are three expressions that have to be left as is throughout the text: USPS in the install() function descriptions, $usps_server, $uspsQuote, Continue reading →

WelThere is no doubt about the fact that I absolutely love osCommerce Templates, and thoroughly enjoy tweaking all parts of it to get the underlying code to perform at its best. In the following chapters, you will learn about all parts of the osCommerce structure and how to adapt them to your needs. Continue reading →

For many shops, adding a gift-wrapping option is critical, as the majority of products purchased are sent as gifts and require that special royal treatment in presentation to their final recipient. This recipe shows you how to specify different gift wrapping options for a set fee, enable taxing if applicable, and offers the option to add a gift card with a personal message too. Continue reading →