{"id":287,"date":"2011-03-04T12:42:29","date_gmt":"2011-03-04T01:42:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/howden.net.au\/thowden\/?p=287"},"modified":"2011-03-04T12:42:29","modified_gmt":"2011-03-04T01:42:29","slug":"oscmax-as-an-alternative-to-oscommerce-and-cre-loaded","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/howden.net.au\/thowden\/2011\/03\/oscmax-as-an-alternative-to-oscommerce-and-cre-loaded\/","title":{"rendered":"oscMax as an alternative to osCommerce and CRE Loaded."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I downloaded oscMax 2.5beta3 today as I am experimenting with osCommerce &amp; CRELoaded without the success I wanted. oscMax retains the appropriate open source policy that CRELoaded seems to lose within its own conflicting interest of selling the &#8216;fully featured&#8217; version. While the original osCommerce still languishes behind Harald&#8217;s dominance of the code and lengthy periods of apparent inactivity.<\/p>\n<p>Why am I looking?  Because I recently discovered that my old version of oscommerce had succumbed to hacking. I dont need to publish the details but suffice to say that while I have cleaned up the mess, I am skittish about it happening again and I want to bolt it down as much as possible. To do so I want a current stable platform without needing to manually edit \/ install a small mountain of add-ons.<\/p>\n<p>CRELoaded has been a great alternative over the years but the above mentioned conflict as they try to make a sale-able product along-side a cut-down version as a loss-leader just does not work for me. <\/p>\n<p>Enter oscMax. Yes, it has been around in various forms for a number of years, but I have only just tried it in it&#8217;s latest version.<\/p>\n<p>Verdict?  The case has only just started, but it&#8217;s osCommerce, pre-loaded with most of what I need, and fully open source. So at this stage I am working on a trial system and tweaking what I need to make it work.  <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>oscmax oscommerce creloaded on line open source web store<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-287","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-oscommerce-oscmax"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/howden.net.au\/thowden\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/287","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/howden.net.au\/thowden\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/howden.net.au\/thowden\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/howden.net.au\/thowden\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/howden.net.au\/thowden\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=287"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/howden.net.au\/thowden\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/287\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/howden.net.au\/thowden\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=287"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/howden.net.au\/thowden\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=287"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/howden.net.au\/thowden\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=287"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}