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6 of 6 people found the following review helpful:
4.0 out of 5 stars
Somewhat Cookie-Cutterish, but adds to scant osC documents out there,
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This review is from: The Programmers' Guide to osCommerce: The nuts and bolts of osCommerce customization (Paperback)
I am a potential osCommerce store owner, and I bought this book to increase my understanding of osCommerce. I am not a programmer, though I've had to learn some coding to trial osCommerce.First impression; I was expecting a large-format paperback, but it's a 6"x9" paperback. I didn't pay attention to the listing so don't know if it mentioned format/size. Perhaps I assumed a larger format due to the price of u.s. $26? More than half of the book is spent on mods to the Admin section, which are not of that much interest to me. Showing how an install happens; listing the actual code and showing how the changes look. This is useful and informative, though the code takes-up a lot of page space. Some of the dialog snapshots take up way more space than they should; nearly a whole page for some. Shrinking these would free up space for more in-depth writing. I tried the procedure on page 170, to replace a box header with an image, but it didn't work for me; tried three times and am using osC 2.2 MS 2, as is the book. Other procedure worked OK. I appreciated learning where to and how to change box background color, and the book helped me find that. There's some sense that the information in this book is gleaned from the osCommerce community docs, and that's OK given the state of disorder and sparseness of information there. This book fills a void in the osC documents, but it left me feeling a bit unsatisfied overall, especially for us$31. Oh, ship date kept getting further out and mine took 16 days from order to delivery; It shipped from the U.K., so not so bad, but I got no notification of shipment. I can recommend it to fill in gaps in your osC documentation.
4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars
Excellent Book,
This review is from: The Programmers' Guide to osCommerce: The nuts and bolts of osCommerce customization (Paperback)
I am not really an osCommerce newbie, I've been toying with it on a casual basis for about a little over a year. So working around in the admin section, adding content through the front end, and any other mundane routines I am very comfortable with. Thankfully, that kind of information isn't what The Programmers' Guide to osCommerce offers.What Myles O'Reilly does offer in his book is a very comprehensive guide to using osCommerce for your development needs. There are many different aspects involved in any web project. What I really enjoyed about this book is that as a beginner programmer, I was able to pick this book up and understand it really well. Tips are offered throughout the book so as to make the most efficient use of osCommerce. I would venture to say this book is probably good for both the beginning programmer as well as the advanced programmer. The beginner will benefit by being exposed to programming concepts and how to develop business logic. The advanced programmer will be able to use this to pick up on the specifics of osCommerce. While my particular interest in this book was to learn more about developing modules and components, that certainly isn't the only thing addressed in this book. This book is a very good survey of how flexible osCommerce is.
2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:
3.0 out of 5 stars
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This review is from: The Programmers' Guide to osCommerce: The nuts and bolts of osCommerce customization (Paperback)
Half of the book is the exact copy of the OSCOMMERCE Manual, so I'm giving it 3 stars only. BUT the second part of the book is awesome. Step by step you will learn how to personalize that cryptic world of oscommerce and all those php files and "includes" files. Good half-job.
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