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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.
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Fascinated by being able to combine logic and creativity, it seems that destiny had finally found me when I became a software developer and Oracle Certified Database Administrator. It was a tough call to decide in which field to work, but landing a position in a marketing agency and working with everything from Oracle to SQL-Server and HTML, ASP and JavaScript was a fabulous decision I still congratulate myself for! I learned more about marketing campaigns, e-commerce, CMS and CRM than I had ever wanted to know, I mean, ever thought was possible! I have been completely absorbed by the Open Source Community - I became an avid believer in php and in MySQL, and definitely in a love affair with osCommerce. I believe almost anything can be done with it... I challenge anyone to prove me wrong! Being an active member of the osCommerce Online Community, I know preemptively which questions will arise in new shop creation. Presently, I am creating as many customised shops for clients as time allows: of course while urging them to add as many custom coded modules as I see fit... that's dessert for me! www.MonikaMathe.com osCommerce Profile Name Monika in Germany
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9 of 9 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
As the person who answers more questions than any other on the osCommerce Community Support Forums one question which comes up a great deal I can recite word for word "OK - I've installed osCommerce, so now what?". This is usually followed by a list of other questions, which follow the format of "How do I do this, remove this, add this, or change this. Well this book fills that gap.
This book provides ready-made solutions to people who have installed osCommerce and now wish to change the way their prototype website looks and feels.
It's not for people who have yet to install osCommerce, nor is it for people who want to totally break the mould of the typical osCommerce 'look' with some advanced programming - but for all those others caught somewhere in between it's ideal.
Rhea (Vger on the osCommerce Forums)
This book provides ready-made solutions to people who have installed osCommerce and now wish to change the way their prototype website looks and feels.
It's not for people who have yet to install osCommerce, nor is it for people who want to totally break the mould of the typical osCommerce 'look' with some advanced programming - but for all those others caught somewhere in between it's ideal.
Rhea (Vger on the osCommerce Forums)
4 of 4 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
Being a mere novice at both PHP, MySQL and OSC, I was immediately drawn to this book as it provides a fantastic opportunity to improve my own skills and also improve my knowledge, so that I can customise some of the many contributions and modifications available from the OSC Community.
My wife kept me waiting until Christmas day but it was well worth the wait!!
An excellently written book, novelly themed as a cook book. This is actually very appropriate!
The book flows exceptionally well through the numerous (sixty nine)modifications. Each is explained in simple terms, that even I can follow and there is definitely plenty in here for everyone.
I would whole heartedly recommend this book to anyone who uses OSC, whether a novice or more experienced user. My favorite sections? Probably the graphical changes to make the sites look more unique plus improvements and additions to the Product Info pages - Excellent!!
I sincerely hope that there will be another installment soon.
My wife kept me waiting until Christmas day but it was well worth the wait!!
An excellently written book, novelly themed as a cook book. This is actually very appropriate!
The book flows exceptionally well through the numerous (sixty nine)modifications. Each is explained in simple terms, that even I can follow and there is definitely plenty in here for everyone.
I would whole heartedly recommend this book to anyone who uses OSC, whether a novice or more experienced user. My favorite sections? Probably the graphical changes to make the sites look more unique plus improvements and additions to the Product Info pages - Excellent!!
I sincerely hope that there will be another installment soon.
4 of 4 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
I have been running my own oscommerce store now for a couple of years and day after day I found myself thinking 'It would be great if I could do this' and 'I wish I knew how to do that'. When I found 'Deep Inside osCommerce' by Monika Mathé I was like a child in a sweet shop!
My wife thought that I was mad when I said that she had to drive home, I had to start reading it.
As soon as I got home I emailed the publisher for copies of the source code (to save my little fingers all that typing). The first recipe that really jumped out at me was in Chapter 2 'Create Separate Boxes for Each Top Category', I had toyed with solutions for this in the past with little success. This recipe was perfect for the job and was up an running in 10 minutes. I was amazed at how such a simple solution could provide great results.
Now I must say I am not the type of person who reads a book from cover to cover and then starts experimenting, I just get in and get my hands dirty!
One of the biggest questions I always get from my customers is 'How do I remove products from my shopping cart?' and I have to explain that you need to check the tick box and then click the update button, not anymore. Monika's recipe for a one click solution has saved me many man hours of replying to emails.
I always had a grumble whenever I had to change any of my stores' configuration values, all those options are not helped by the oscommerce default sort order and also the links were never highlighted (which you think they would be). In this book there is a recipe for highlighting and seperating the links into a more eye friendly display, grouping them by logic or even alphabetically.
As part of our future expansion plans we intend to start importing directly from China, Monika's recipe for adding an additional currency when entering a new product was just what we are looking for and this is already now a feature of our shop which will be put to very good use.
To summarise, this book is well worth the money, it will save you quite a few pounds in developer fees. It is neat, tidy and easy to follow and further more very very tasty!
My wife thought that I was mad when I said that she had to drive home, I had to start reading it.
As soon as I got home I emailed the publisher for copies of the source code (to save my little fingers all that typing). The first recipe that really jumped out at me was in Chapter 2 'Create Separate Boxes for Each Top Category', I had toyed with solutions for this in the past with little success. This recipe was perfect for the job and was up an running in 10 minutes. I was amazed at how such a simple solution could provide great results.
Now I must say I am not the type of person who reads a book from cover to cover and then starts experimenting, I just get in and get my hands dirty!
One of the biggest questions I always get from my customers is 'How do I remove products from my shopping cart?' and I have to explain that you need to check the tick box and then click the update button, not anymore. Monika's recipe for a one click solution has saved me many man hours of replying to emails.
I always had a grumble whenever I had to change any of my stores' configuration values, all those options are not helped by the oscommerce default sort order and also the links were never highlighted (which you think they would be). In this book there is a recipe for highlighting and seperating the links into a more eye friendly display, grouping them by logic or even alphabetically.
As part of our future expansion plans we intend to start importing directly from China, Monika's recipe for adding an additional currency when entering a new product was just what we are looking for and this is already now a feature of our shop which will be put to very good use.
To summarise, this book is well worth the money, it will save you quite a few pounds in developer fees. It is neat, tidy and easy to follow and further more very very tasty!
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Out of date
Though this book was no doubt excellent when it was first published, it has not been revised to take account of the large number of changes made to oscommerce since it was first... Read more
Published 14 months ago by A.J.
One of the most useful OsCommerce books I've read
Monica has a lot of good tips in here each presented as a short how-to recipe. Playing with a few soon gets your head around what's what in the OsCommerce code so it's handy to... Read more
Published 22 months ago by Misae Richwoods
Great Recipes in this Book
I have successfully used several of the recipes in this book to improve my Online Shop. I was able to get many of them working the same day my book arrived. Great value!
Published on 24 Aug 2009 by Thomas O'Dea
Really not helpful for people needed os commerce or PHP help
I bought this book needed to customize my own os commerce site as there own support site is useless for beginner's. Read more
Published on 17 July 2009 by Mr. Philip Cartner
Best resource for customising osCommerce
While you can get excellent help from forums and sites there's nothing better, for me, than a good book to help solve a problem. This is one such book. Read more
Published on 3 Mar 2008 by E. M. Robson
The Most Enjoyable Book !!!
It took me ages to come to grips with oscommerce, and while i was happy with contributions found on the oscommerce web site, I was still looking for the wow factor for my... Read more
Published on 31 Dec 2006 by B. A. Ereira
Excellent book filling a a real need
Buying this book, "Deep Inside osCommerce", has been an excellent decision for me - I am currently creating an online shop for a UK charity, and am getting involved in customising... Read more
Published on 19 Dec 2006 by C. Trent
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