Burt’s Discount Coupons installed. Barebones but smooth and easy and actually works!
Gift Voucher (GV) and Discount Coupons (DC) for RC1, RC2, RC2a
http://addons.oscommerce.com/info/5743

Simple Template System installed 4.5.8 without issue but CCGV(trad) is a headache.

I don’t care about being PHP4.x compatible so time to jettison these so register_long_arrays can just be a memory.

$_SERVER instead of $HTTP_SERVER_VARS
$_GET instead of $HTTP_GET_VARS
$_POST instead of $HTTP_POST_VARS
$_COOKIE instead of $HTTP_COOKIE_VARS
$_FILES instead of $HTTP_POST_FILES
$_ENV instead of $HTTP_ENV_VARS
$_SESSION instead of $HTTP_SESSION_VARS

On a fresh install osC wants to throw errors. Bad osC! Bad!

Well, this is fixed in the osC 2.2 Github repository.

http://github.com/osCommerce/oscommerce2

This is a build log, from scratch, of the process of building an osCommerce distribution suited to your (my) own needs.
I have some priorities. After building EosC 2.3 with the idea that it should be a loaded osCommerce distribution geared toward being a jumping off point for further mods and as close to the stock install as I could make it I find that’s just not what I want or need anymore.
What I find I want now, after Ubercart and Magento have hit the scene, is a version of osCommerce …