I’ve now rewritten most of osCommerce w/ OOP style code, integrated it with Smarty, and am on the verge of having it 100% functional without register_globals. Needless to say, this is a very momentous moment for me, as I’ve spent the better part of three years doing this. The question that I pose myself now, though, is whether to eventually release my work to the osCommerce team, or, given that the changes I’ve implemented are so far reaching, to start my own open source shopping cart project.

The other question, obviously, is whether or not there is much demand for yet *another* open source shopping cart. I would argue that there is, because a ton of the open source shopping cart software that I’ve seen has been absolute garbage (osCommerce included), but perhaps more research is needed. I also might completely remove all osCommerce code / design from my work and create my own site that provides ad-supported usage of the new engine without releasing my source code. Lots of possibilities.

Will post again once I’ve confirmed everything is working fine with register_globals turned off.

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