By and large, you should find that you can now work fairly confidently with your osCommerce application. There are, of course, plenty of new things still to be learned and some of them are actually quite important to the safety and well being of your site and business. Not everything is quite so critical, and there a re a few things you might want to learn in order to make your life easier, or even just to spruce up your site a bit.
Accordingly, this chapter presents a kind of grab bag of different topics, which you will no doubt find a use for in the time to come. Specifically, we will:
Begin by taking a fairly in-depth look at securing the admin tool as well as securing payments
See how to use a community contribution to provide a new type of report
Use a community contribution to properly control the purchasing and delivery of downloadable products
Briefly discuss how to make cool button templates for use throughout your site
Learn some of the insiders’ secrets...