Here we are, after long months of work and testing, the release of version osCSS 2.1.0 pre-Rc;

Check it out on the download page

Why not a RC version again ?

Because the difference between the engines is quite important, we feel it is important to allow wider testing than for single developers and users from the community.

This release is stable, tested, and reliable. However, in order to listen to your feedback during a few weeks, we will publish a RC in three weeks.

This RC will bring only a few fixes and ergonomic evolutions as well as support of the English language.

What is the 2.1.0 ?

The new osCSS engine version is a complete rewrite of the 1.2.2 kernel, and shift to php5, the engine and the database went to utf8; compatibility to Oscommerce remains intact, the structure of the db has changed very little, but most of oscommerce contribs being quite old, it is usually more interesting to re-write the PHP / HTML part.

Majors developments

(non exhaustive list)

• Upgrade to PHP 5 / MYSQL 5 / UTF 8
• Complete rewrite of the back office, using a classic template structure
• Systematic separation of PHP code processing and display, converting most of the pages in the back office module, extracting elements of html in independent template files
• Changing file management languages, and use of php array replacing the constant element in all the modules
• Integration of a modules engine, allowing more features without any intervention in the code
• Adding of a much advanced public template management, to upgrade the core elements with those of the template
• Integration of public templates plugin management
• Integration of a repository, connected to the engine, allowing one-click extension installation and update.
• Improved backoffice ergonomy, decreased number of clicks for management, adding an ajax layer.
• Adding xml feed for the management (new customer / stock alert)
• Integration of client groups management into the engine
• Integration of fine product attributes management and associated quantity into the engine
• And many more...
• Let’s try it !