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10 March 2010

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New payment modules Magento / osCommerce / PrestaShop

New payment modules have been developed to make credit card transactions with Greek banks for Magento, osCommerce and PrestaShop. The modules include the new Winbank (Piraeus bank) payment gateway, Alpha Bank (Deltapay) and Eurobank.

The modules work with redirection to the secure pages of the banks and allows customers to make credit card payments by Visa, Mastercard, American Express and on request also by Diners (Winbank). After subscribing you can download these modules and all other modules from the download pages.

OSC Pimpt B2B

OSC Pimpt B2B version 1.0.0 has been released and is available for download. This version is packed with business to business and business to customer tools, over 60 osCommerce contributions have been implemented.

New added! The package includes now the following UTF-8 language packs:
Dutch, English, French, German, Greek and Spanish!

UTF-8 CSV

Using UTF-8 or UTF-16 Unicode characters in a csv file can be a hassle when using Excel to manage these files in spreadsheets. When using a default language in ASCII format, there are not many problems with this, as long as the regional settings of your pc are set to that language. But in case you have to handle multiple languages, it could become a little exhausting, switching the default language of your pc before doing your spreadsheet job. A popular osCommerce contribution used for mass categories / products import and export, like Easy Populate, relies heavily on csv files. This article will assist you maintaining unicode characters in a csv formatted file.

Magento

Magento is an Open Source ecommerce web application launched on March 31, 2008. It was created by Varien, building on components of the Zend Framework.

Compared to osCommerce and other open source e-commerce solutions, it is a complete set of tools to run an e-commerce site with almost all thinkable features. Unfortunately there is no slim basic version available, so even on a dedicated server this beauty with a package size of 45 MB and it's 229 databse tables will use a lot of server resources and can slow down your customers a bit.

Encoding Converter

The PHP Encoding Converter can be used to easily batch convert your language pack to the UTF-8 encoding (or to another encoding type). Over 50 encoding types are supported (Windows, Dos, Unix, Mac). The script batch converts directories from one encoding type to another and can be run from a webserver (or local server with for example Xampp installed).
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VirtueMart

VirtueMart (formerly known as mambo-phpShop) is an open source e-commerce solution designed as an extension of the Mambo or Joomla! content management systems (CMS). VirtueMart is written in PHP and requires the MySQL database environment for storage. It is best suited for low to medium level traffic web-sites.

Compared to osCommerce and other open source e-commerce solutions, it is a simple set of tools to run an e-commerce site inside your CMS system.

Choosing a web host

Choosing the right hosting solution is often underestimated and can lead to great disappointments. There are many factors that you have to take in account and it is not just a hunt for a cheap solution. Does the hosting provider offer the tools your site needs (SQL or MySQL databases,FTP,PHP or ASP, SSL)? Are you purchasing a (cheaper) shared hosting solution and what security has been implemented by the provider? Or are you going for the dedicated server, but can you handle the setup and maintenance yourself?

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