OsCommerce

OsCommerce was started in March 2000 in Germany by project founder and leader Harald Ponce de Leon 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 HPDL, this was the point the team started taking the project seriously.[2] In 2005, over 2000 websites used OsCommerce[3], and in 2009 this amount grew to 13,000[4].

In November 2010 the development of OsCommerce v2.2 was met with another stable release. Version 2.3, as it was branded, takes advantage of the benefits of tableless web design, and includes a number of social networking tools.[5] As of March 2018, OsCommerce reported over 20,000 'live' websites using the program.[6] This number is almost certainly conservative, given the inclusion of OsCommerce in hosting panel application installers such as Fantastico and Softaculous.

The current iteration is version 3.x (in development) and is a major re-write of the program to incorporate an object-oriented backend, a template system to allow easy layout changes, and inclusion of an administration-area username and password definition during installation. The latest development version is 3.0.2, and was released on 6 August 2011.[7][8]

There are currently two official releases of OsCommerce. Versions 2.3 (stable) and 3.0 (in development) are developed as two independent programs, and as such do not share code. Apps, the official name for the open-source community developed plugins, are developed for either 2.x or 3.0, and are incompatible with one another.

The Official version has not had any substantive updates for some time. The recognised "current" version is 2.3.4.1.

CE Phoenix

Developer(s)	Gary Burton
Stable release	1.0.7.1 / 30 May 2020 (2020-05-30)[9]
Repository	github.com/gburton/CE-Phoenix
Written in	PHP
Operating system	Cross-platform
Type	Webshop
License	GNU General Public License
Website	phoenixcart.org

CE Phoenix is the official community-edition of osCommerce and the latest version of osCommerce. Unlike its counterpart, it:

• continues to be supported via regular updates.
• has responsive web design using Bootstrap 4 making it suitable different-size devices such as tablets and smartphones.
• pages are modular, allowing for flexibility in design by choosing which components appear on each screen and in which order.
• supports modular Apps, which can be installed without changes to core code.
• has updated code architecture, which includes hooks.
• supports PHP 7.3.0.

CE Phoenix is supported by members of the Phoenix Club which is hosted on the official oscommerce site. The lead developer is Gary Burton.

Distributed under the GNU General Public License, OsCommerce is one of the earliest PHP based Open Source shopping cart software distributions.[10] Also, it inspired the creation of many other online store platforms, such as Magento[11] and Batavi. As such, it has spawned a number of forks, such as Zen Cart, xt:Commerce, CRE Loaded, Solomono, OSC-CMS, oscMAX, etc.[12][13]

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.[14][15]

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