Checkout Redux

I’m releasing a new osCommerce add on, Checkout Redux.  Checkout Redux is a play on the phrases “checkout redone” and “checkout reduced”.  I started with the desire to do something that I meant to do five years ago, which is write a PayPal IPN contribution that worked for me. 
The problem that I have with the [...]

I use a Wordpress plugin called the Developer Formatter to display code blocks. In general, it works well for me, but I recently went to check the W3C HTML Validator and was getting a large number of errors.  Working through them, there were four things that the validator did not like about the plugin [...]

By default, if you configure osCommerce to use a particular image size in admin >> Configuration >> Images, it will rescale the image to fit that size.  If the image had a different aspect ratio, it will then appear smushed or distorted.  It’s possible to set up osCommerce such that this does not happen.  You can do so by setting admin >> Configuration >> Images >> Calculate Image Size to true and then change the tep_image function in includes/functions/html_output.php (more…)

Worked through a weird bug the other day.  A gaming computer store has products with lots of attributes — as many as fifty.  Since osCommerce stores the attributes with the product ID, the result is to make the id array that holds the attributes on the shopping cart page have exceptionally large input names.  If the name gets too large (I didn’t test it exactly, but more than two hundred characters was all right and three hundred some broke it), it gets silently dropped.  (more…)

I released a new osCommerce contribution yesterday:  Product Listing on Front Page
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