GemRock

how can it be possible for spammers to post so many spams in short period of time and it hasnt been stopped???
Ken

someone claims to be developing Ms Access Back End for Oscommerce. i am curious. i had been using ms Access since version 2 and i know for sure Access is NOT developed for use in a public facing website let alone web shops. maybe you have a mate who is one of the Access developers and manage to smuggle a sepcially compiled version with the connection threshold/throttle removed, or you would be the only user/customer, or you have a means to cut off people when the connections reach, say, 10, otherwise it wont work. period. if it does, M$ wont be able to sell its SQL Server. M$ is not stupid.

Ken

first looked at the file set, its completely different from any previous versions. then i had the urge to install it immediately and fond out what it would look like.
the installation (on a local server) went smoothly and finished in a couple of minutes w/o glitch except a few php notice seen at admin, which i ignored as everything the shop and the 'aministration tool' looked fine anf working.
that is until:
1. i changed the currency to GBP or Euro, both currencies' symbol did not display properly, e.g GBP would be A£ instead of £. i had to change the browser's encoding to unicode (UTF-8), which fixed the problem but thats not a solution as most shop visitors in the real world would not know to do this;
2. worse to come (unfortunately), i decided to change the English symbol to use UK flag and the default currency to GBP using the admin tool. the devil came out obviously unhappy with the changes i made (it would be a normal change for any previous version), and the admin tool hangs ever since displaying the ever spinning loading icon, further more, many language definition no longer show correctly, e.g index_heading instead of the right heading being shown at both the shop and admin, button_reset instead of Reset, table_heading_countries instead of just Countries., all the application menu shows app_title instead of the title for the sub-menu. in short, the admin tool no longer work.
at the point i had no idea why it does this and how to fix it. i guess i would re-install it later.
so far, i can only say the jquery button is much clearer and there seems no admin folder to hack. further comments would have to wait until i reinstall it, and perhaps fix the encoding issue.

Ken