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Minimum Requirements for osCommerce Online Merchant v3.0 Alpha 5:

osCommerce Online Merchant v3.0 Alpha 5 has taken a big step forward in utilizing newer PHP and MySQL features. The minimum requirements to run v3.0 Alpha 5 are PHP v5.2.0+ and MySQL v4.1.13+ or v5.0.7+. A further requirement is the mysqli extension in PHP as the normal mysql database class was…

Nick Weisser:

According to the New York Times

Twitter is one of the fastest-growing phenomena on the Internet

with 25 million users already. Some osCommerce team members are also actively using Twitter to update others on what they’re currently doing and working on. Although it’s not always of general interest what others might be eating or drinking, I personally find it very inspiring to see what Harald is working on and to know it before everyone else does.

On our new Social Network Section you can see what the osCommerce team members are currently up to and you are welcome to follow them on Twitter. If you prefer to not drown yourself in too much information or think that your privacy is more important than following the social web trends and rather get the occasional news message, you can just subscribe to this blog’s RSS feed ;-)

The osCommerce team page has also been updated with links to the members’ Twitter profiles.

There are yet two other platforms where you can connect with the osCommerce project which you might not have been aware of:

• osCommerce Group on XING
• osCommerce Group on Facebook