Requirements
osCommerce Online Merchant can be installed on any web server with PHP installed and has access to a MySQL database server. This includes shared servers, dedicated servers, cloud instances, and local installations running on Linux, Unix, BSD, Mac OS X, and Microsoft Windows operating systems.
Web Server
The web server must support PHP either as a module or allow execution of CGI scripts. For performance reasons FastCGI is recommended over CGI.
PHP
The minimum PHP version required is v5.3. It is recommended to use the latest PHP version on the web server.
The following PHP options are recommended, but not mandatory, to be set in the php.ini configuration file:
| register_globals | Off |
| magic_quotes_gpc | Off |
| file_uploads | On |
| session.auto_start | Off |
| session.use_trans_sid | Off |
The following PHP extensions are mandatory:
| PDO_MYSQL | PDO MySQL database driver. |
The following PHP extensions are recommended:
| PDO_SQLITE | PDO SQLite database driver. |
| Phar | PHP Archive extension. |
| GD | Image processing extension. |
| cURL | Network communication library. |
| OpenSSL | Encryption library. |
MySQL Database Server
The minimum MySQL version required is v4.1.13+ or v5.0.7+. It is recommended to use the latest MySQL version on the database server.
The following MySQL storage engines are supported:
osCommerce Online Merchant utilizes Foreign Key Constraints which is supported natively by InnoDB. A compatibility layer for MyISAM exists where foreign key relationships are defined in the osc_fk_relationships database table.