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Deep Inside osCommerce: The Cookbook

By : Monika Mathe
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Deep Inside osCommerce: The Cookbook

By: Monika Mathe

Overview of this book

osCommerce has been around since March 2000. At present there are over 10,000 live, registered osCommerce sites, and about 100,000 registered community members. Apart from providing ready-made solutions to problems, as well as a huge repository of information, the osCommerce community is a living entity with which we can all interact. With the rising success and popularity of this remarkable piece of software, things can only get better.
Table of Contents (17 chapters)
Deep Inside osCommerce: The Cookbook
Credits
Foreword
About the Author
About the Reviewers
Introduction

Summary


This chapter provides you with exciting new options that allow you to recreate even the most sophisticated payment plans in osCommerce with minimal work on your default code.

You can now settle back when running final testing on new payment modules in your live environment. You, and you alone, will have permission to view them; they remain hidden to the public eye while you make sure all is properly seasoned before releasing a new payment method.

Careful testing is especially important when you are working on cascading strategies, where a certain shipping method will trigger the payment choices offered. You have studied an example for Spot Delivery, which was the only shipping choice that allowed a customer to select Cash on Delivery payment in the next step.

In the last part of this trilogy, you had a taste of a highly practical modification that allows you to offer certain payment methods to small select groups of customers—without the overload of an extensive contribution installation...