Managing osCommerce modified with addons

[oxwivi]

Since starting to mess around with osCommerce for a little more than a year, I've come to use a number of addons. I want to ask existing and long-time users how you manage all those files edited, re-edited, re-edited, and re-edited again.

 

I've asked this question on Stack Overflow for code-management by non-coders, but I'd love to hear about veteran osCommerce user's experience as well.

[♥14steve14]

I tend to do this with a whole series of backups, which you should be creating anyway. Just rename them to the last addon that was used and a number, so they stay in order. I can then restore the whole site or just a file to a previous setup. No special software needed. If you have to alter something once an addon is added, the backups keep a working and tested copy of the site.

 

This may not be perfect, but it works for me.

[Gasse1014life]

this method is a perfect method if you got a big problem, else first word of codding is BACK_UP BACK_UP BACK_UP

lol

 

is not the page you have to manage but the code ,

 

on every code you chane in any script page,

 

you can add a statement like this

 

// Update products_ordered (for bestsellers list)

 

 

to take note from any change, add or remove from code,

 

if a day (3 year later by example) you open a file X and edit line XXX , you will see your proper note, etc........

 

 

i suggest due to an over volume of note already inside

 

to put your note like this to know yours,

 

//**

//**

//my note here :P

//**

//**

 

 

have a nice day

[satish]

If you have a dedicated server or SVN installed you can try by using SVN.

 

Satish