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[Pronux]

I have another quick question about external (built-in) libraries. As I know V3 will be shipped with jQuery. Are there plans for other JS/PHP/CSS libraries which V3 will use to do some standard tasks as send proper HTML eMails/Newsletter, generate thumbnails, SOAP/REST/OData Interface, Caching, CSS-Layout etc. ?

Last question: Does V3 use MyISAM or InnoDB? If it uses InnoDB, it should take advantage of the primary indexes (surrogate keys), see article: http://bit.ly/abpuZH this would be a great performance boost.

[Harald Ponce de Leon]

Hi Pronux..

No other libraries will be integrated at this time.

Thanks for the InnoDB tip. For related reading, also refer to http://blogs.oscommerce.com/2009/06/18/ensuring-database-integrity-with-foreign-keys/

Kind regards,

[homewetbar]

Harald Ponce de Leon, on 09 July 2010, 18:25, said:

Product keywords are not generated automatically and can be defined with the product data in the backend. If no product keyword exists then the numeric product ID is used.

The installation will be wrapped inside an "oscommerce" directory however the bootstrap index.php, public directory, and "osCommerce/OM" directory can reside anywhere on the server - it is recommended to move the "osCommerce/OM" directory outside of the public_html directory.

The directory structure will look like:

oscommerce/index.php - bootstrap
oscommerce/public - images, stylesheets, javascript, etc..
oscommerce/osCommerce/OM - core framework

Kind regards,

Thanks Harald, that clears it up quite a bit! One other small question regarding the product images. The current v2.2 stores all product images in the main images directory. We've found once you get into the hundreds or thousands of products that directory becomes quite heavy and takes a really long time to even display the contents when you have to ftp in to upload new images or make adjustments. Our solution has been to rewrite the code so all of the product images are stored in their own directory aside from the rest of the images, like this images/products . Not a huge issue, but I thought I'd share our experience with running a larger store so maybe a simple solution like this or a more advanced one of your creation may be included in v3.0?

[totalnumpty]

@ Harald - many thanks for the answers - for now, at least, I can disconnect the turbo-charger on my pacemaker

@ HomeWetBar - there's a current contrib for 2.2 RC1 & 2 that adds a couple of fields to the create product page and database, which allows you to add new sub-directories on the fly while creating new products or editing existing ones. It's a fairly quick and simple install and works perfectly (I use it on all my sites).

Wish I could remember its name , but it's eluding me.

Gaz

[Pronux]

Harald Ponce de Leon, on 12 July 2010, 08:47, said:

For related reading, also refer to http://blogs.oscommerce.com/2009/06/18/ensuring-database-integrity-with-foreign-keys/

Great, thanks.

[Nick Weisser]

Quote

2. Automatically select the cheapest shipping method available for the order.

Sometimes it's useful to not have the cheapest shipping method selected automatically. In 2.2 this behavior cannot be configured, so it would be nice if it could be in v3.

[Gergely]

Hi Harald,


Could you say about something "manufacturers" conception?

(At this moment in V3alfa5 I see attributes module for it, but in the database tables i.e. osc_products table I find manufaturers_id. I think when data will store in attributes table the manufacturers_id more dangerous, than use in a conventional pruducts table. If the user admin uninstall manufacturers module attributes every relevant data will be lost!)

I wonder for it. I'm coding a better product listing, but at this moment I lost the way. We need for manufacturers in products listing but how?


Thanks,
Gergely

Edited by Gergely, 21 July 2010, 18:45.

[cocoonfx]

Any news on the release of 3.0 Beta?

[Mark Evans]

cocoonfx, on 25 July 2010, 00:32, said:

Any news on the release of 3.0 Beta?

3.0 is still some time off yet, rest assured that when its close people will know about it!

[Pronux]

I've another "great" idea: the actual template of osCommerce 2.x (and 3.x) is old and looks old. Why not collect 1 or 2 thousand $, buy a professional template and ship it with OSCOM 2.x or 3.0 ?

[FWR Media]

Pronux, on 30 August 2010, 17:34, said:

I've another "great" idea: the actual template of osCommerce 2.x (and 3.x) is old and looks old. Why not collect 1 or 2 thousand $, buy a professional template and ship it with OSCOM 2.x or 3.0 ?

Projects with a following such as osCommerce need to spend nothing .. professional designers would respond to a "competition" with the winner template getting pride of place and the "professional designer" the notoriety attached.

[DunWeb]

Robert,

Like most other suggestions to the development team, that good idea will also be ignored.




Chris

[FWR Media]

DunWeb, on 30 August 2010, 19:56, said:

Robert,

Like most other suggestions to the development team, that good idea will also be ignored.




Chris

Well tbh Chris it doesn't matter to me as I am a PHP developer not a designer. ( I use designers but don't do it myself ).

I think previously with the "old" oscommerce that the subject wasn't really relevent given the complexity of creating a theme for osCommerce .. the new system will allow "plug in" templates which I am certain will deliver up a whole new contribution area of templates, a new revenue stream for the osCommerce team and I'd be amazed if they didn't capitalise on it.

Edited by FWR Media, 30 August 2010, 20:23.

[Harald Ponce de Leon]

Hi Pronux..

Pronux, on 30 August 2010, 17:34, said:

I've another "great" idea: the actual template of osCommerce 2.x (and 3.x) is old and looks old. Why not collect 1 or 2 thousand $, buy a professional template and ship it with OSCOM 2.x or 3.0 ?

The current default template, which is a CSS based v2.2 template, will definitely not be part of v3.0; meaning v3.0 will have a new design to match the new framework.

Kind regards,

[Pronux]

Hi Harald, thanks for the info. Another idea: It would be great if we had a site where we could submit and rate new ideas. I've seen such a feature in other development projects (e.g. http://bit.ly/cwrTWW ).

[Harald Ponce de Leon]

Hi Pronux..

That would be good after v3.0 has been released, powered already on 10 years of ideas and feedback :-)

Kind regards,

[sammysumer]

Please, can someone tell us what is happening with osC 3.0?

I don't know what to do, Should I go and learn a new shopping cart solution (OpenCart, Magentoo) or do I wait for osC 3.0.

If osC 3.0 is around the corner and is just a few weeks away, then I can wait, but if it is going to take 6 months from now, then I have to use another shopping cart solution.

Can hpdl or any other core deveolper shine some light here please.

Thanks in advance.

[burt]

oscom3 will not be released within just a few weeks.

[yung23]

burt, on 07 September 2010, 10:34, said:

oscom3 will not be released within just a few weeks.

SIGH.

this is getting frustrating.

Edited by yung23, 07 September 2010, 19:52.

[Gergely]

Perhaps 2011, but Harald knows better. If some tasks would be personalize and join more developer this could be faster and effective. I would like to help, but I dont know what should I do.