osCommerce:: Multiple Shipments and Backorders
One: Seperation of order:
OSC needs an 'if/then' to check if anything in the shopping cart is overordered when the customer clicks 'Checkout'. Then OSC must seperate the order into 'in_stock' and 'backorder' and show two or more seperate orders on the checkout screen.

PHP and MySQL:: Building PHP4.3.1 for RH Linux 8 Apache 2.0.40
Second problem… the old php.ini file will not work with PHP 4.3.x and the php.ini-dist that comes with the new distro has a bug somewhere plus it's for Win32. Therefore, I needed to re-write a new php.ini file.

This is a live file, it will be changing. The latest version is available at.
Sample php.ini file to be used for Redhat Linux 8.x with Apache 2.x and PHP 4.3.x
http://www.celiamania.com/php.ini.txt

osCommerce:: Dummy Credit Card Number For Testing
If your shopping cart system accepts credit cards and if it runs a rudimentary checksum test to see if a valid credit card number was entered, you may use the following number when performing tests on your site.

This number will work with VISA and Mastercard checksum tests.