Setting Up Amazon's AMTU on a Linux Server

This is post is now quite old and the the information it contains may be out of date or innacurate. If you find any errors or have any suggestions to update the information please let us know or create a pull request on GitHub Amazon helpfully supply a java package called AMTU which does the grunt work of the XML integration for Amazon marketplace. With AMTU you can easily update products, stock levels, prices and also grab order info etc. Read On →

osCommerce Version 3 Roadmap

This is post is now quite old and the the information it contains may be out of date or innacurate. If you find any errors or have any suggestions to update the information please let us know or create a pull request on GitHub Harald made a great post on the osCommerce forum that details the roadmap for the project and also includes some great links for developers who want to get involved. Read On →

osCommerce Version 3 System Requirements

This is post is now quite old and the the information it contains may be out of date or innacurate. If you find any errors or have any suggestions to update the information please let us know or create a pull request on GitHub Harald has released some info about the minimum requirements of osCommerce version 3 alpha on the osCommerce blog here. It requires PHP 5.2 as a minimum (though I would personally recommend avoiding version 5.2.0 and going for the latest version if at all possible. Read On →

Cookie Based 302 Redirector

This is post is now quite old and the the information it contains may be out of date or innacurate. If you find any errors or have any suggestions to update the information please let us know or create a pull request on GitHub If you have a site that is installed on your live server but for the moment you do not want to go live, this little code snippet will allow you to redirect any visitors who don’t have a secret GET variable in the URL to a holding subdomain with a 302 redirect. Read On →

osCommerce Version 3 on the Horizon?

This is post is now quite old and the the information it contains may be out of date or innacurate. If you find any errors or have any suggestions to update the information please let us know or create a pull request on GitHub Just checking out the osCommerce blog and it looks like there is some activity over at osCommerce in relation to version 3. It would great to see osCommerce come back into the foreground of open source ecommerce! Read On →

Magento Newsletters Not Sending + Solution

If you are scratching your head trying to figure out why your Magento is not sending out newsletter emails then this post is what you need. Magento has a script called cron.php which handles all of the timed jobs that your Magento store has to do. In this list is the task of sending out newsletters. You have to set up your server crontab to run this cron.php script at regular intervals (eg 5 minutes). Read On →