osCommerce Online Merchant (c) Copyright 2011-2012 osCommerce; http://www.oscommerce.com BSD License; http://www.oscommerce.com/bsdlicense.txt Welcome to osCommerce Online Merchant! osCommerce Online Merchant v3.0 is built on a new framework still in active development to start building onto with the community. v3.0 does not yet contain a full user feature set to be able to run an online store on. Now that the framework is stable, the missing features will be worked on and pushed through the new CoreUpdate delivery mechanism that can easily upgrade running installations. Code submissions (including bug fixes) are subject to the following Contributor License Agreement (CLA): http://www.oscommerce.com/cla.txt We look forward to working with you in improving and extending osCommerce Online Merchant! To install osCommerce Online Merchant v3.0, copy the contents of the release package to your public html directory. The "osCommerce" directory can be added to the PHP include directory and be moved outside of the public html directory. The Setup Site will first load to setup and configure a new installation. Once installed and configured, the Shop and Admin Sites can be reached with: http://demo.oscommerce.com/index.php (for Shop) http://demo.oscommerce.com/index.php?Admin (for Admin) Please note that the Setup Site is still reachable but is locked down. To unlock the Setup Site, remove the following from osCommerce/OM/Config/settings.ini: [Setup] offline = "true" For customizations, please copy the file with the same directory structure to the custom namespace located at: osCommerce/OM/Custom The Custom directory can mimick the Core directory to override core files with customizations.