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osCommerce Technical Manual: A Guide for Website Developers [Paperback]

Kerry Watson (Author)

3.2 out of 5 stars See all reviews (10 customer reviews) |

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Book Description

Publication Date: July 2004

Everything you need to know to install, configure, install add-on contributions, troubleshoot and customize your own ecommerce store, including:

Standard Installation
Setting up Store at Root Level
Installing to a Secure SSL Server
Moving a Site to a NEW Server
Website Security
About PHP and MySQL
Setting Up Your Own Testing Site
(Optional) Installing PHP, MySQL, Apache, phpMyAdmin
osCommerce Product Architecture
Advanced Fun with Text
Advanced Fun with Emails
Advanced Fun with Colors & Graphics, and
Other Customizations.

BONUS MATERIALS: Top 25 ERROR MESSAGES & THEIR SOLUTIONS - Installing the Top 16 CONTRIBUTIONS - REVIEWS of "Loaded" versions of osCommerce.

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Standard Installation
Setting up Store at Root Level
Installing to a Secure SSL Server
Moving a Site to a NEW Server
Website Security
About PHP and MySQL
Setting Up Your Own Testing Site
(Optional) Installing PHP, MySQL, Apache, phpMyAdmin
osCommerce Product Architecture
Advanced Fun with Text
Advanced Fun with Emails
Advanced Fun with Colors & Graphics, and
Other Customizations.

BONUS MATERIALS: Top 25 ERROR MESSAGES & THEIR SOLUTIONS - Installing the Top 16 CONTRIBUTIONS - REVIEWS of "Loaded" versions of osCommerce.

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...Takes all the mystery out of working with osCommerce and I highly recommend them anyone, including experienced web developers. -- Matt McGinnis, McGinTech

As an osCommerce expert...this book is something no store owner, or web developer should find themselves without. -- Clifton Murphy, Hyperactive Inc.

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If you are a web developer with some HTML programming experience* who wants to install and customize a powerful ecommerce store using FREE OSCOMMERCE Open Source licensed software...

YOU NEED THIS BOOK.

The osCommerce Technical Manual shows the web developer in Non-Tech-speak, plain-English, step-by-step instructions for everything you need to install, configure, customize, install add-on contributions, and troubleshoot your own ecommerce store.

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Product Details

Paperback: 220 pages
Publisher: Trafford Publishing (July 2004)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 1412037336
ISBN-13: 978-1412037334
Product Dimensions: 8.9 x 6.8 x 0.6 inches
Shipping Weight: 12 ounces

Average Customer Review: 3.2 out of 5 stars See all reviews (10 customer reviews)

Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #2,207,894 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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1.0 out of 5 stars thin book, large type, not much info and expensive, November 30, 2004

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This review is from: osCommerce Technical Manual: A Guide for Website Developers (Paperback)

Aimed at "Website Developers" the book wastes a lot of time and space on more obvious things. For example it tells you which PHP file to edit to change a string and where to in the file the string is. That's nicely done. But then it does the same thing over and over again file after file. A simple table after the first example would have done the trick. The real problem with that is the examples are in a very large font, lots of whitespace. Yet the book is small and very thin.

Basically not much content and way too expensive. This book would be worth $10 if you were not a website developer but wanted to be one someday.

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1.0 out of 5 stars Save your money!, December 4, 2004

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This is possibly the worst purportedly technical book I have ever tried to read. It is a small, thin book. There is almost no content. I have quick reference cards that have more useful information. Even the illustrations and the typography are obstacles to try to overcome. The graphics are too crude to be useful, the font is way too large with too much whitespace.

There is no real technical overview of the software layout or the concepts underneath the structure. What coverage there is, is fragmented, disjointed and shallow. There is no good advice about what should be considered or what tradeoffs are important in putting together a site with osCommerce.

I should not have wasted so much time trying to find information in this book that could more easily be extracted from the code, and from a good book on PHP and MySQL.

I searched for "osCommerce" in the title and found five different titles on this same software by this same author. This smells to me like a crass rip-off targeted at people wanting to put up an ecommerce site. The book reveals that the author is non-technical, perky looking, and married to an engineer.

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1.0 out of 5 stars Skimpy, basic, and way overpriced, December 6, 2004

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Just like his other book, "osCommerce Users Manual", this book is short on real content, and in fact repeats much of what was on that book! Both books should have been combined into one, and sold at a lower price. This guy SERIOUSLY needs some competition in osCommerce technical books. Anyone? Anyone?

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5.0 out of 5 stars outstanding reference!
I work as a programmer for a small web design firm and I build stores, on occasion, for clients. This book is a handy reference for me. Read more

Published on April 13, 2007 by William Dyer

3.0 out of 5 stars A guide for beginners actually
Website Developers is a bit of a misnomer. It is a very good set of the basics for someone just getting started with OSCommerce, much better than the OSC Tomatoes on the cover... Read more

Published on May 11, 2006 by Carl Guile

5.0 out of 5 stars Gave me an understanding of this complex program
This book covered how to do everything I needed to understand osCommerce and customize it the way I wanted. Read more

Published on August 12, 2005 by Mike Davis

5.0 out of 5 stars Well Organized, Excellent Content
As the new owners of an OS-Commerce store and with some html programming experience, we purchased this book along with the OS-Commerce Users Manual (also excellent!). Read more

Published on August 2, 2005 by Chris Sandoval

5.0 out of 5 stars A great book for osCommerce newbies!
I am a web designer trying to get into osCommerce, and have really struggled with this program. I worked through a store on my own but it took a very long time to get everything... Read more

Published on July 22, 2005 by C. J. Pendergraft

5.0 out of 5 stars Helps real people who speak English, not techno-snobs
Wow, look, there are two kinds of people in Oscommerce: real live people like me that just want to learn it and run a store of their own. Read more

Published on July 20, 2005 by rocknrollstore

1.0 out of 5 stars A thin malnourished Book
This book is so inadequate that the screen shots are often poor enough resolution that they can be difficult to read. Read more

Published on June 4, 2005 by christiansees

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Inside This Book (learn more)

First Sentence:
These questions must all be answered to install correctly the first time, so take the time now. Read the first page

Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
contact your web host, sure your edit, upload the new file, administrative module, admin module, test store, info box, php files, live store, entire website, loaded versions, catalog directory, admin directory, php echo, php code, gift vouchers, register globals, file permissions

Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Changing the Header Text, Define Mainpage, Program Files, Day Air, Payment Module, Discount Coupons, Easy Populate, Pre-Installation Checklist, Edit Orders, Changing the Text, Information Info Box, Advanced Fun, Advanced Version, Basic Template Structure, Category Box Enhancement, Column Product Listing, Front Page, Personal Greeting, Reviews Box, Template Install, Chain Reaction Web, Create Model, Download Model, Editor Added, Manufacturer Info Info Box

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