Comments on: osCommerce Blows Chunks

By: Nathan

Nathan — Mon, 19 Jul 2010 02:59:07 +0000

OS Commerce still sucks even after 4 years.

By: Lindsay

Lindsay — Sun, 11 Jul 2010 03:22:30 +0000

is this for real?? did you really go on a massive rant about how shitty osc is and then 4 years later post praises in the form of a random comment??

REALLY?

By: Admin

Admin — Sun, 04 Apr 2010 09:16:32 +0000

Sorry about that guys, just realised that I am an absolute numpty, and that in fact osCommerce is the best thing since sliced bread!!!!! I’m sorry I tried to mislead you all with the bitter rattlings of an untalented muppet, I have now managed to learn the error of my ways!!!

By: thetruth

thetruth — Tue, 11 Aug 2009 14:14:19 +0000

I think this article makes sense. C’mon you mean all the ecommerce shops out there are MUST run by coders?! Give me a break. What this article is trying to say is strictly from a non-programmer point of view. The idea is simple to have an open source source program so that anyone who wants to open an online store can use easily . This is obviously not in oscommerce case. To say one must strictly learn php to open up store using oscommerce is simple ignorant.

By: hi

hi — Mon, 20 Jul 2009 02:14:47 +0000

if you can’t program in php do not open a php ecommerce.
Your article is stupid, shows lack of skills and ignorance in basically every IT matter.
Study, then open a shop but in both case try to keep the mouth close, it will be a pleasure for us all

By: Luke

Luke — Sat, 14 Feb 2009 16:18:46 +0000

I would have to agree that osCommerce is not the best tool for customizing layout. For example:

I wanted to simply center everything on the page (I didn’t want it to be 100% width) so I had to go through about 40 files and wrap ALL the HTML inside of a div that I applied a class to called “container”. This allowed me to put a width and a margin of auto to center the page.

Then after I did that, I wanted to put a background color to the div … Now if I DID NOT put a div I would not be able to separate my body background and my actual page background colors.

It is far, far away from being CSS friendly. If they would AT LEAST assign a class to each table that would be great, for example:

- The Header table would be a div
- The left column would be a div

Something along those lines. If everything would be assigned properly we could use CSS to customize the layout MUCH easier…. Then there would have been no need for me to add to the HTML on every page!

I’m very grateful for the people that make open source to what it is and I appreciate everyone that built osCommerce and put their time into it, but I think it’s time to revamp and bring osCommerce into the new ago of programming and design techniques. (Especially the design side)

That’s my rant, sorry. Have a great day!

By: L

Mon, 02 Feb 2009 22:12:09 +0000

This is my second comment to this forum, as I sit up at 10pm trying to get shitty osCommerce to display shipping values correctly and figure out tax on gift vouchers. As the site I’ve worked on for the past year – it’s a large, high traffic, high turnover ecommerce site – has many times caused me to sit there tearing what little hair I have left, out.

I expect to be up for much longer.

Thanks a f**kin’ bunch osc! You owe me!

I suggest we find an osc core developer tie him to a chair and make him give us a valid reason why osc is so screwed up, or else he suffers terribly.