Easier Attributes

Handling attributes just got a whole lot easier. One of the biggest complaints with osCommerce’s admin is how the attributes are handled. If your shop uses more than twenty or so you know how awkward they are to work with. Our new Easier Attributes, currently only available from us, fixes that. It also provides the much-asked-for attribute search. But the most obvious change is that it is extremely fast. If you want to view the attributes for ten different products in the current system, it could easily take many minutes. With Easier Attributes it can be done in less than ten seconds. It is amazingly fast.

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View Counter Just Got Better

The most powerful site monitor for any osCommerce shop just got better. We have rewritten the country checking code that was causing problems due to the external site being used going down. We also made changes to the code to make it faster and added more features. If you have an osCommerce shop, you need View Counter from osCommerce Solution – the osCommerce Experts.

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We Now Have Templates

When someone starts a new osCommerce shop, one of the most important things the can do is to decide on how the shop will look. There are many template shops around and we have installed many templates from them for our clients. But every single one of them had coding issued. All the template designers are interested in is making it look good.

But ours is different. We guarantee them to work as designed. Plus, take a look at what else you get:

•Uses the latest osCommerce version
•Latest Paypal Modules installed
•Responsive (mobile-ready)
•Free updates to the template code for six months from the date of purchase
•Assistance with setting up the options in admin.

Further to the above, if you decide to host your new template with us in a new, annual, hosting account, the following applies:

•Template is FREE
•Installation is FREE
•SSL Certificate is FREE
•Database Conversion is FREE (if moving from an older version of oscommerce). regularly $65.

Take a look at our osCommerce Templates and let us know if you have any questions. Just another quality product from the osCommerce Experts.

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View Counter – Think Who’s Online on Steroids

Our newest addon. View Counter, will be available soon. If you are familiar with the Who’s Online tool, this is similar to it but vastly improved. Among the most important changes is that the CIDR’s, which is a range of IP’s, can be determined with just one click. And that CIDR can then be banned, right from admin. So while Who’s Online will show you that some IP is bothering your site, View Counter will allow you to determine all of the IP’s being used and ban them all, with just a few clicks. This can greatly decrease a shops bandwidth usage as well as speed up the response time.

View Counter also allows you to kick someone off of your site, view pages that have been visited, along with how many visits, and view pages that have not been visited. It

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Easily Add More Database Fields

The very easy to use Add More Fields contribution is now compatible with oscommerce version 2.3. This add on, written and maintained by
oscommerce solution, will allow you to add/edit/delete fields for the database very easily from within admin and will automatically display the new field data on the product page, if you choose to do so.

It can be ordered from Database Field Creator. Use the code addmorefields_discount to receive 5% off of your order.

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MySQL Database Optimizer for osCommerce

All osCommerce shops require a MySQL database to function but little attention is given to it. Just ask yourself when was the last time you optimized your database. Unfortunately, this is a big mistake since MySQL is prone to developing problems. Many are fixed as the database runs but many are not and, over time, these grow and can severely effect your shops performance. This addon will automatically tune-up the database (the cron setup is required) and cure many known short-comings of MySQL. Here are some of its features:

  • Defragment the tables
  • Optimize the keys
  • Strip the customers tables of old data
  • Strip the sessions table of old data
  • Strip the user tracking table (if present) of old data
  • Remove old credit card numbers
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Site Monitor

The very popular and important SiteMonitor contribution has been updated. This update is more important than others since it fixes the problem of reports being skipped when deletions have been made. It also adds the option to check hacker code using a cron job. Use the sitemonitor_discount coupon code to save 5% off of its installation.

Here’s a full list of the changes in this version:

  • Added instructions regarding Version Checker
  • Added option to replace the hacker exclude file on updates
  • Added checkbox to allow the checking/unchecking of all hacker files at once
  • Added new entries to the hacker code list
  • Added basic security checks which are displayed in admin->SiteMonitor->Admin, if present
  • Added code to display the start directory and the shops directory when a username error occurs so that differences can be seen
  • Added cron file so hacker tests can be performed automatically
  • Added an override option that allows the configure section to load without building a files list for sites that timeout initially
  • Changed file search code so deleted files no longer prevent checking the other conditions
  • Changed variable name in sitemonitor_configure-setup.php since it was conflicting with other code in RC2 shops
  • Made other various small changes and code cleanup
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This blog is for announcing status updates related to the servers at Oscommerce Solution We will also post announcements regarding new or revised contributions and anything else that might be of interest to our hosting members.

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