Below is the compilation of the Best Opensource Shopping cart systems that are available on the web as of 2010 !

osCommerce is a free, open source online shop software. The default installation includes a large number of features that you can easily enable and configure. You can easily install osCommerce on your website with the help of the Fantastico auto-installer. With osCommerce shopping cart you can add multiple products on your site, organize them in categories, set discounts and special promotions. osCommerce allows you to set your prices in different currencies and accept all popular payment methods: PayPal, credit cards, cheques. osCommerce has a built-in shipping and tax functionalities.

website: http://www.oscommerce.com/

CREloaded project is built on the source code of osCommerce but it has extra contributions installed. It offers powerful shopping cart solutions in Standard, Pro and Pro B2B editions. With CREloaded you have the ability to distribute coupon codes, the template system is better, and you have an affiliate manager

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It was always a Challenge on the web for me in my initial days of web development to find a “Working” PHP contact form, Sometimes if its working its difficult to customize, Some looks good but does not work.

With this article  you can either directly Paste the HTML code in your Contact page ( with a HTML editor) and use it.
Files required

1. contact.html
2. contact.php
3. thankyou.html

Steps

include the source code of the <form> </form> part in your custom designed contact form or use the contact.htm

upload the contact.php file to the same level of the contact.htm in your FTP

Configure the contact.php with the destination email address, Contact form subject and From ( NOTE: the from address should be a email adress @ the domain name of the site itself)

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What is JQuery?

jQuery is a lightweight JavaScript library that emphasizes interaction between JavaScript and HTML. It was released in January 2006 at BarCamp NYC by John Resig.

jQuery is free, open source software, dual-licensed under the MIT License and the GNU General Public License, Version 2.

Features

Downloading JQuery

http://docs.jquery.com/Downloading_jQuery

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Web safe HTML Color code pallette is given below, they are called safe because they appear the same in all resolutions and all browsers. Below are the set of all possible color codes that can be used for design and development.

Feel free to share you reviews on the color code list

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Joomla! 1.0 is an award-winning CMS. It is suitable for creating personal and business websites. To your Joomla CMS you can add many extra modules and components which will enhance the value of your website and will enrich your visitors’ experience. If you would like to see how Joomla 1.0 works, here you can get Joomla 1.0 pre-installed and activated in less than 15 min.
http://www.joomla.org

 Joomla! 1.5 is the new and improved version of the award-winning CMS. It provides refined and simplified menus and improved site and media management. If you would like to see how Joomla 1.5 works, here you get Joomla 1.5 pre-installed and activated in less than 15 min.
http://www.joomla.org

Mambo is among the most powerful and commonly used Content Management Systems ever. With its help you can create simple as well as more complex corporate website. It provides a lot of wonderful functionalities, it has easy to manage control panel and is user-friendly. Mambo disposes of a growing community, support and template resources. Get Mambo pre-installed here.
http://www.mamboserver.com

With Drupal you can easily build many different types of web pages – from simple web blogs to large online communities. Drupal’s design is not as fancy as those of Mambo or Joomla!, but it is very easy to customize, has built-in search tool and search-engine friendly URL’s as an extra module, discussion capabilities and news aggregator.
http://www.drupal.org

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Joomla is an open source content management system referred by tens of thousands as the best CMS in the world.
Once installed, the website administrator can login to the backend administration console and set up sections, categories, content items, polls and much more; administrating the entire frontend of the website from a point and click interface. When new content is created, a WYSIWYG (What You See Is What You Get) editor allows for simple edits without the knowledge of HTML. While it is not mandatory the user have knowledge of HTML, it is recommended to engage in a few HTML primers in the event that something needs to be edited on a more custom level. The Joomla community forums are available with thousands of programmers and designers to help new and advanced users when possible.

Joomla is a free, open source content management system written in PHP for publishing and managing content on the web and intranets using a MySQL database. Joomla includes features such as page caching to improve performance, web indexing, RSS feeds, printable versions of pages, newsflashes, blogs, forums, polls, calendars, website searching, and language internationalization.

The name is a phonetic spelling of the Swahili word “jumla” meaning “all together” or “as a whole”. It was chosen to reflect the commitment of the development team and community to the project. The first release of Joomla (Joomla 1.0.0) was announced on September 16, 2005. This was a re-branded release of Mambo 4.5.2.3 combined with other bug and moderate-level security fixes. In the project’s roadmap, the core developers say Joomla! 2.0 will be a completely re-written code base built with PHP 5.

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Where is my php.ini?

The path where PHP looks for its php.ini file is built into PHP on compile time. To find out that path, use a PHP script that does a phpinfo() call. This will display a huge table of all of PHP’s configuration variables. The path to php.ini can be found in the first part of that table, near the start of the page.

you can simply create a new file (name it “phpinfo.php”, for example) that contains the single line

<?php phpinfo(); ?>

Upload that file anywhere on your website and call it up in your browser.

then the table loads with the settings.

cheers, joshu