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30th
Oct 2008

OXID eShop 4 released!

After two years of a halt with new releases I am glad to inform you that finally today OXID released eShop version 4. As a team member and eShop developer I am really proud of this product. I could tell you a lot about new features and general improvements such as massive refactoring and automatically tested code, performance improvements, ultimate search engine optimization, new Web 2.0 functionality or customizable Look’n'Feel engine. But all the details you can find on official OXID eSales site. I’ll just want to make a long story short and the Big news first. The most interesting and exciting part is that OXID eShop since today goes.. OPEN SOURCE! Yes, that’s right now we are fully GPL, you can download and use our software for free or even join the development process and contribute the product yourself!

As for me personally and the team, we enjoyed a short period of relax after the release stress, raised a few glasses of beer and now we are back to development again. We’ve already got some reports on minor bugs and hope to release the first fixes soon. I definitely promise that you do not have to wait another two years for the next release. As I mentioned before we fully automated eShop testing with unit and acceptance tests. That’s why version release process shrank from a few weeks of nightmare of testing, fixing, testing and fixing again, to a few hours procedure.

Short facts:

  • OXID eShop is PHP and MySQL based standard online commerce system.
  • OXID eShop Community Edition is an an open source GPL product.
  • Demo shop online
  • Demo shop admin (username:password - admin:admin)
  • Download OXID eShop CE 4.0

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    3rd
    Dec 2007

    Private PHP class variables exposed

    Rimvydas Paškevičius reported a way to access private and protected vars from outside of class scope. Do you think it’s a PHP bug? It works for me on PHP 5.2.1 Read the rest of this entry »

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    11th
    Nov 2007

    Generating JPG thumbnail with PHP

    In case you need to generate image thumbnail, you can use this simple PHP function. It takes 4 parameters: source filename, thumbnail filename, thumbnail width and height. Before resizing the image, this function crops it proportionaly, this way ensuring that thumbnail image is not streched. Read the rest of this entry »

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