CE Phoenix Cart Forum

Hi All!
I started using oscommerce since 2003 and i'm looking now at Phoenixcart.
Can somebody tell me something i don't get at the moment:
- in many places there is the use of hooks, for example orders.php but i dont see any class with a name hook.php (in google i found some classes but in the version .8 i cannot find such a file
- i found the file in a subfolder /includes/system/versioned/1.0.7.4, can somebody tell me what's the system directory for? and versioned? are the files there in use or only for history?

as i understood the phoenixcart ist not "dead" and still work on it, is that correct? (and it has nothing to do with the new oscommerce 4.0...., new ownership....new system...and i have read not so good things in the forum about it)

and my last question if i click on "addons" in the admin i get to the old site from oscommerce, is that correct? that's the official and only place to download plugins for phoenix? the age of most plugins are 1-2 years...are most of them compatible to the newes phoenix or is it trial an error?
thank you in advance and i hope i can start my new shop with cePhoenix as i know the code from oscommerce 2003 100% blind ....and i hope so i can migrate easyer to phoenix

Regards
Philipp

loop wrote: ↑Thu Mar 25, 2021 12:36 pm and my last question if i click on "addons" in the admin i get to the old site from oscommerce, is that correct?

CE Phoenix Cart is moving away from the oscocmmerce - if you install or update your CE Phoenix version to the latest release, 1.0.8.0, you will see that link will bring you here.

loop wrote: ↑Thu Mar 25, 2021 12:36 pm as i understood the phoenixcart ist not "dead" and still work on it, is that correct?

Yes, the latest version is 1.0.8.0 and 1.0.8.1 will be released soon and work is now being done on 1.0.8.2 - CE Phoenix Cart is very alive!

loop wrote: ↑Thu Mar 25, 2021 12:36 pm can somebody tell me what's the system directory for? and versioned? are the files there in use or only for history?

The most recent version is currently in use. Older versions are there for historical compatibility if needed. I'll probably weed out some of the historical versions soon, as some of them are from osCommerce.

loop wrote: ↑Thu Mar 25, 2021 12:36 pm as i understood the phoenixcart ist not "dead" and still work on it, is that correct? (and it has nothing to do with the new oscommerce 4.0...., new ownership

We are not now nor ever were associated with the new osC 4.0 -- that's an entirely different piece of software that forked from osC at a different point. We are in active development and have released seven versions so far this year. Although two of them were to remove osC. I hope to get back to a more measured pace in a couple versions. I currently have a backlog of code that I didn't want to introduce before the 1.0.8.0 release.

loop wrote: ↑Thu Mar 25, 2021 12:36 pm that's the official and only place to download plugins for phoenix?

For now, the official place to download add-ons is from this forum: viewforum.php?f=11

There are also some paid add-ons available from our partners or if you go Pro.

Add-ons posted anywhere else may or may not work. We are considering options for better tracking version compatibility in the future.

Thank you all for fast answer!
this question is not answered, where is the clas of hook.php in the directory?
<<
Can somebody tell me something i don't get at the moment:
- in many places there is the use of hooks, for example orders.php but i dont see any class with a name hook.php (in google i found some classes but in the version .8 i cannot find such a file
- i found the file in a subfolder /includes/system/versioned/1.0.7.4, can somebody tell me what's the system directory for? and versioned? are the files there in use or only for history?
>>
i need / want to understand the full concept of phoenix so i can start to make adjustments to my needs...
thank you all

There is a basic explanation of using hooks in the User Guide - https://phoenixcart.org/phoenixcartwiki ... a_New_Hook
Also a YouTube explainer made by @zipurman, one of our partners here https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bLd9m_uABYI&t=10s

I thought that that was answered implicitly: it's the most recent hooks.php file from includes/system/versioned. I think that you said that was includes/system/versioned/1.0.7.4/hooks.php in the version that you have. In 1.0.8.0 it would be includes/system/versioned/1.0.7.other/1.0.7.12/hooks.php and in 1.0.8.1 it will be includes/system/versioned/1.0.8.1/hooks.php

thank you for super support! i have now made donation monthly for pro user (but couldn't note my username, can you check and add me to PRO? i have papal you the money a couple of minutes ago from xxxx@buchxxnn.ch) let me know