OsCommerce

OsCommerce (styled "osCommerce" - "open source Commerce") is an e-commerce and online store-management software program. It can be used on any web server that has PHP and MySQL installed. It is available as free software under the GNU General Public License.

osCommerce
Original author(s)Holbi Group
Developer(s)Holbi Group
Stable release
2.3.4.1 / 18 August 2017 (2017-08-18)[1]
Preview release
4 B2 / 26 January 2022 (2022-01-26)[1]
RepositoryosCommerce Repository
Written inPHP
Operating systemCross-platform
TypeWebshop
LicenseGNU General Public License
Websiteoscommerce.com

History

OsCommerce was started in March 2000 in Germany by Harald Ponce de Leon. The open source project was known as The Exchange Project. In its infancy, osCommerce was referred to by Ponce de Leon as "a side thing" and "an example research study". By late 2001, a team formed for its development and in the words of Harald Ponce de Leon, this was the point the team started taking the project seriously.[2]

By 2005, over 2000 websites used osCommerce,[3] and in 2009 this amount grew to 13,000.[4] In 2021, BuiltWith[5] reports over 230,000 websites powered by osCommerce.

In 2021, the Holbi Group took over management of osCommerce from Ponce De Leon and have announced their intention to release 4.x,scheduled to be released in summer 2021 [6]

On the 16th of November, 2021, osCommerce v4 Beta 1 was released to the limited number of Beta testers [7]

osCommerce v4 Beta 2 was released on the 26th of January, 2022 to multiple Beta testers [8]


Official Version

The current version is 2.3.4.1.

Release dateRelease name
12 March 2000The Exchange Project Preview Release 1.0
14 May 2000The Exchange Project Preview Release 1.1
2 December 2000The Exchange Project Preview Release 2.0
13 December 2000The Exchange Project Preview Release 2.0a
6 March 2001The Exchange Project Preview Release 2.1
17 February 2003osCommerce 2.2 Milestone 1
7 December 2003osCommerce 2.2 Milestone 2
12 November 2005osCommerce 2.2 Milestone 2 Update 051112
13 November 2005osCommerce 2.2 Milestone 2 Update 051113
17 August 2006osCommerce 2.2 Milestone 2 Update 060817
3 July 2007osCommerce Online Merchant 2.2 RC1
16 January 2008osCommerce Online Merchant 2.2 RC2
30 January 2008osCommerce Online Merchant 2.2 RC2a
12 November 2010osCommerce Online Merchant 2.3
14 November 2010osCommerce Online Merchant 2.3.1
31 March 2011osCommerce Online Merchant 3.0 (development)
6 August 2011oCommerce Online Merchant 3.0.2 (development)
18 July 2012osCommerce Online Merchant 2.3.2
15 August 2012osCommerce Online Merchant 2.3.3
26 September 2013OoCommerce Online Merchant 2.3.3.4
5 June 2014osCommerce Online Merchant 2.3.4
18 August 2017OsCommerce Online Merchant 2.3.4.1

Branches

Distributed under the GNU General Public License, osCommerce is one of the earliest PHP based Open Source shopping cart software distributions.[9] It inspired the creation of many other online store platforms, such as Magento.[10] It has also spawned a number of forks, such as Zen Cart, xt:Commerce, oscMAX and Phoenix.[11]

Publicised vulnerabilities

In August 2011 three vulnerabilities in version 2.2 of the osCommerce system were exploited, allowing the addition of an iframe and JavaScript code to infect visitors to websites. Armorize reports this allowed infected web pages to hit 90,000 in a very short time until it was noticed and increasing further to 4.5 million pages within the space of a week.

OsCommerce 2.3 was made available in November 2011 and patched the exploited security holes.[12][13]

See also

References
  1. "Releases · osCommerce/oscommerce2 · GitHub". Retrieved 9 September 2019.
  2. "osCommerce – a brief history and a look at the features". Mays Digital. Archived from the original on 6 September 2015. Retrieved 23 July 2015.
  3. Rich, Jason R. (2005). Unofficial Guide to Starting a Business Online. Unofficial Guides. Vol. 155 (2 ed.). John Wiley & Sons. ISBN 9780471792277.
  4. Kimball, Cheryl (2009). Design and Launch an Online Gift Business in a Week. ClickStart Series. Entrepreneur Press. p. 78. ISBN 9781613081129.
  5. "Builtwith". Retrieved 8 March 2021.
  6. "New management and osCommerce v4". osCommerce. Retrieved 19 February 2021.
  7. "osCommerce v4 Beta 1". osCommerce Community Forum. Retrieved 16 November 2021.
  8. "osCommerce v4 Beta 2". osCommerce Community Forum. Retrieved 31 January 2022.
  9. osCommerce: Copyright Policy
  10. "Magento eCommerce Review". dwacommerce.com. 19 April 2018. Retrieved 26 May 2020.
  11. "CE Phoenix Cart eCommerce Software". Retrieved 9 March 2021.
  12. "Archived copy". www.h-online.com. Archived from the original on 13 December 2013. Retrieved 12 January 2022.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)
  13. "Archived copy". www.stopthehacker.com. Archived from the original on 4 August 2016. Retrieved 12 January 2022.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)

Further reading
  • Watson, Kerry. The osCommerce Technical Manual. Victoria, BC Canada: On Demand Manuals. pp. 11–14 ISBN 1-4120-3733-6.
  • Gurevych, Vadym . osCommerce Webmaster's Guide to Selling Online. Birmingham, UK: Packt Publishing. p. 2 ISBN 1-84719-202-5.
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