We stated earlier that the next oscommerce Online Merchant releases would be v2.2 and v3.0 and that we wouldn’t be publishing any more alpha, beta, or release candidate labelled versions. The next v2.2 release was declared as “v2.2final” to finalize the versioning cycle it went through, from…

Our blog has found a new home at Tumblr and now functions as an aggregator, linking to and publishing interesting articles from the oscommerce team and our partners.

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Checkout Application

The number of steps during the checkout procedure has been drastically reduced with the new Checkout Application. The checkout procedure no longer starts at the shipping page but now heads directly to the confirmation page which takes care of all dependencies for the…

What Application Actions Do

Application Actions allows functionality to be added to Applications in a flexible manner without needing to edit core source code files. Actions typically define what page content is presented in a given situation and can load nested actions for further…

Namespace What\Is\It?

Namespaces allow scopes to be added to classes and are used to group related classes and to prevent collision of class names. The larger the framework grows and the more components that become available and integrate with the framework, the greater the…

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PHP v5.3 and Namespaces

We’re excited to announce the framework for oscommerce Online Merchant v3.0 is being optimized to use the newer features PHP v5.3 provides, primarily focusing on implementing namespaces into the core. In addition to namespaces, the namespace coding…

I registered on the English and German oscommerce forums back in February 2003 when I first got in contact with the project. I posted and answered questions and made some contributions to existing add-ons. Two years ago in December 2007, Harald asked me if I’d like to become an official team member which I gladly accepted. Since then I’ve been helping with the German and English documentation, the German language pack for oscommerce 3.0, as well as some small bug fixes here and there. Currently, I’m working on a wireframe for the front end layout of version 3.0.

During the last 2 years as a team member I participated in various discussions on Skype and on the internal mailing list, but I never met any of the other team members in person. This changed in December 2009 when after a long break of official meetings, the first oscommerce public meet-up took place in London on 11th.

In the early afternoon I met with Harald, Mark, Jan and Matthijs from the team before the official event and enjoyed various interesting talks about each person’s professional career and long experience in e-commerce as well as their participation in the project.

Later on we all went from Paddington to Oxford Circus to the official event by tube where I had a chance to talk to community members such as Gary Burton and Mark Samios, as well as Bruno Lévêque and Igor Schlumberger, the co-founders of another open source e-commerce project called Prestashop.

I had come to London together with my wife and therefore already left the meet-up around 8pm to spend the rest of the evening with my wife. We also took the chance to do some shopping and sight seeing the day before the meet-up. It was a great short trip and I really enjoyed the event!

I’m looking forward to meeting more community members at next spring’s 10 year oscommerce birthday celebration which will shortly be announced on our blogs and on <a href="http://www.facebook.com/pages/oscommerce/33387373079″>Facebook.

Stay tuned!

We had a fantastic meet-up in London last Friday – I’d like to thank everyone again for the great evening. It was great meeting with team members again and meeting community members around London for the first time!

I arrived in London on Wednesday and had a hotel in Paddington. The hotels here…

We have successfully defended our Trademark and Copyright against eCommerce Ventures Ltd who blatantly registered “oscommerce” as a trademark in the United Kingdom and tried to “pass off” as being oscommerce.

With owning the trademark registration, the firm, comprised of members that were…