W3b Expert http://www.w3bexpert.com Becoming a Web Expert isn't difficult, all you need to do is read the information! Don't forget to subscribe to the RSS Feed. Thu, 22 May 2008 19:11:51 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.5.1 en Oscommerce Templates http://www.w3bexpert.com/2008/05/22/oscommerce-templates/ http://www.w3bexpert.com/2008/05/22/oscommerce-templates/#comments Thu, 22 May 2008 19:11:49 +0000 admin http://www.w3bexpert.com/2008/05/22/oscommerce-templates/ Oscommerce Templates are often very hard to get hold of but many are available through the torrent websites and peer 2 peer, as a web designer I would advise you stay away from these templates.

Why?

After recently tweaking a template for a friend as a favour, it unearthed faults and dangerous security holes never mind forwarding details to a email addresses. When you open any oscommerce file you will find all the oscommerce details commented out.

For example. (This being the latest build)

/*
$Id: account.php 1739 2007-12-20 00:52:16Z hpdl $

osCommerce, Open Source E-Commerce Solutions
http://www.oscommerce.com

Copyright (c) 2007 osCommerce

Released under the GNU General Public License
*/

From the downloaded template

/*
$Id: account.php,v 1.61 2003/06/09 23:03:52 hpdl Exp $

osCommerce, Open Source E-Commerce Solutions
http://www.oscommerce.com

Copyright (c) 2003 osCommerce

Released under the GNU General Public License
*/

The important part being in bold the date of the build, how many times has the script changed in four years how many times have the security holes been fixed.

If your looking to use a template for your business, your best starting from scratch. Simple…

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