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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


In this chapter, you have found many new recipes to quicken your appetite. You can now change your shopping cart design to make it more intuitive when customers need to delete a product from their shopping cart; you can even highlight this function by adding colors and fun icons for a pleasant look.

You are no longer forced to allow customers to choose a shipping address that differs from the address they used at registration. Your display text in Shipping Method follows your own ideas as you can henceforth whip the display style of your Shipping Method into shape for the Checkout Confirmation page.

In addition to these functions, you have learned about two very exciting new modules, namely, a sophisticated Gift Wrapping module that handles proper taxing, added to your Checkout Shipping page, and secondly, a Donation module that allows you to collect monetary gifts from your customers on your Checkout Payment page.

The last part of this chapter tackled many small but tasty tweaks that...