osCommerce PHP5 fix

**RFH Reseller: dv8host** · 27th April 2005, 11:00 AM

Hi,
I have only just moved to Red Fox (which I am extremely impressed with) and was in the process of moving all my clients web sites across from my old host when I had a panic attack because osCommerce wouldn't work. It would install fine, but then come up with an error when I tried to go to the admin section. After many hours of fiddling with the code and searching the net I finally found the fix for the problem...

The problem was that 1 tiny line of code wasn't PHP5 compatible. All you need to do is to open up admin\includes\classes\upload.php and edit the line on or about line #31 that says "$this = null;" to be "//$this = null;" (without speach marks) and that should fix the problem.

I hope that this fix saves you all the hours of frustration that I had to go through!

Regards,

Chris

**Staff: Warren Ashcroft** · 27th April 2005, 06:58 PM

Thanks for the heads up Chris!

**RFH Reseller: dv8host** · 27th April 2005, 10:37 PM

Hi,
Here's a few more fixes that I have had to use to get osCommerce working on Helm/PHP5.

If you get an error like "1064 - You have an error in your SQL syntax; check the manual that corresponds to your MySQL server version for the right syntax to use near '-20, 20' at line 1" then click here for the fix!
To get the osCommerce email system working change the following email settings in the "Configuration->E-Mail Options" section of the admin area. Change "E-Mail Linefeeds" to CRLF. Change "E-Mail Transport Method" to SMTP.

Regards,

Chris

**RFH Customer: terraqueotenaz** · 8th June 2005, 10:52 PM

Originally Posted by dv8host

Hi,
I have only just moved to Red Fox (which I am extremely impressed with) and was in the process of moving all my clients web sites across from my old host when I had a panic attack because osCommerce wouldn't work. It would install fine, but then come up with an error when I tried to go to the admin section. After many hours of fiddling with the code and searching the net I finally found the fix for the problem...

The problem was that 1 tiny line of code wasn't PHP5 compatible. All you need to do is to open up admin\includes\classes\upload.php and edit the line on or about line #31 that says "$this = null;" to be "//$this = null;" (without speach marks) and that should fix the problem.

I hope that this fix saves you all the hours of frustration that I had to go through!

Regards,

Chris

It´s working for me right now brother. It would had been very messy if this message wasn´t posted.
Thank you for your time.

**RFH Customer: terraqueotenaz** · 9th June 2005, 02:29 AM

By the way Chris,

I configured my oscommerce with the shared ssl. When it redirects me to https://nitrogen.securedwebspace.com...t_shipping.php should I put all the checkout_* files in the ssl directory?

Thank you for your time.

**Staff: Warren Ashcroft** · 9th June 2005, 08:25 AM

Hello,
Yes - I believe you need to copy the files (all of them, including config) into the ssl directory too.

Regards,
Warren

**RFH Reseller: Glynn** · 9th June 2005, 10:34 AM

This is a well appreciated thread. I have tried unsuccessfully to get osCommerce working on Windows servers on a couple of occassions and rather than dig through PHP code (which I'm not exactly au fait with) I've resorted to using Cactushop which has to be paid for! OK, I've passed the cost on but this thread has now enabled me to start using osCommerce.

Thanks very much for the solutions Chris.

**RFH Customer: terraqueotenaz** · 9th June 2005, 11:02 AM

Originally Posted by Glynn

This is a well appreciated thread. I have tried unsuccessfully to get osCommerce working on Windows servers on a couple of occassions and rather than dig through PHP code (which I'm not exactly au fait with) I've resorted to using Cactushop which has to be paid for! OK, I've passed the cost on but this thread has now enabled me to start using osCommerce.

Thanks very much for the solutions Chris.

HI,

what was your experience with cactushop? Do you see it better equiped than oscommerce? What about your ssl cert, did you used the shared one?

I´m still having problems with this thing. I copied all the files to the ssl directory, including the config file. Although I have severe linking problems. It skips form https:// to http:// and sessions or cookies are not stored. And I don´t want to dig too much in the php code.

If I get a dedicated ssl cert. will this issue be fixed? as my domain will be: http://www.mydomain.com/store and be at the same time https://www.mydomain.com/store and will not have to copy from one directory to another, right?

Thank you for your time.

**RFH Reseller: Glynn** · 9th June 2005, 01:31 PM

Originally Posted by terraqueotenaz

what was your experience with cactushop? Do you see it better equiped than oscommerce? What about your ssl cert, did you used the shared one?

I find cactushop unbelievably easy to set up and configure but cannot compare it with osCommerce as I never really got it fully functional. As I used Worldpay on the sites I did set up I didn't use an SSL cert as transactions were handled on their servers. I wouldn't hold/collect credit card info on shared hosting.

Have sent you a PM with details of a trial installation of Cactushop that I have that you can play with.

**Staff: Warren Ashcroft** · 9th June 2005, 04:14 PM

Originally Posted by terraqueotenaz

If I get a dedicated ssl cert. will this issue be fixed? as my domain will be: http://www.mydomain.com/store and be at the same time https://www.mydomain.com/store and will not have to copy from one directory to another, right?

Hello,
Yes - this is correct; and your issue with cookies not being avaiable on the SSL domain is due to cookie security (different domain) - this is a limitation of shared SSL.

Warm Regards,
Warren