Developer Guide

The engine powering osCommerce v3.0 is in its third generation that meets the high standards set by todays industry. The framework has changed from a procedural design approach to an Object Oriented design that brings in many advantages and possibilities not otherwise possible.

Our standard focus on security, performance, and compatibility has remained a priority during the development of the osCommerce 3.0 framework, while introducing a new priority of extensibility.

Our new additional focus on extensibility allows the feature set of an osCommerce v3.0 installation to be expanded on with new capabilities without having to make changes to core source code files. This builds on the success osCommerce v2.2 has had with the osCommerce community, where store owners and developers shared over 4,000 add-ons that other store owners could freely use.

This section in the osCommerce documentation describes how the internals of the osCommerce 3.0 framework functions, and caters to the devloper community to help build on and extend osCommerce v3.0.

• Administration Tool Sections
• Language Definitions
• Template Structure Implementation
• Classes