define(’HTTP_SERVER’, ‘http://www.domain.com’);
define(’HTTPS_SERVER’, ‘https://secure.domain.com’);
define(’ENABLE_SSL’, true);
define(’HTTP_COOKIE_DOMAIN’, ‘www.domain.com’);
define(’HTTPS_COOKIE_DOMAIN’, ’secure.domain.com’);
define(’HTTP_COOKIE_PATH’, ‘www.domain.com’);
define(’HTTPS_COOKIE_PATH’, ’secure.domain.com’);

This configuration is incorrect in that osCommerce has a hard time distinguishing the cookies. What you need to do is store the cookies at the main domain without the sub. I had changed the configuration file to read:

define(’HTTP_SERVER’, ‘http://www.domain.com’);
define(’HTTPS_SERVER’, ‘https://secure.domain.com’);
define(’ENABLE_SSL’, true);
define(’HTTP_COOKIE_DOMAIN’, ‘domain.com’);
define(’HTTPS_COOKIE_DOMAIN’, ‘domain.com’);
define(’HTTP_COOKIE_PATH’, ‘/’);
define(’HTTPS_COOKIE_PATH’, ‘/’);

By changing my osCommerce configuration file to set the cookie at the root domain, I have been able straigten out the SSL/HTTPS issue and allow the shopping cart to flow forward with the order.

I am using both Purchase Without Account and Advanced SEO for osCommerce through MagneticOne and everything is stable and processing orders.

There are two ways to do this.

The first is by using something like phpMyAdmin to increase the length of the categories_name field in the categories_description table.

If you’re a command line person, you can increase the length of your osCommerce category names by using the following:

ALTER TABLE `categories_description` CHANGE `categories_name` `categories_name` VARCHAR( 64 ) CHARACTER SET latin1 COLLATE latin1_swedish_ci NOT NULL

That’s it. Just updating the categories_description table will allow you to use longer category names with osCommerce.

I’ll list here the quick and dirty installation instructions for Joomla FireBoard using Community Builder which I found to be quite simple.

You must note that this is a ‘clean’ installation. I had not had any other Board component installed with Community Builder before hand.

The first step is to download the FireBoard component and FireBoard CB Plugin. Links for downloading the 2 are below:

1. FireBoard - Download Info
2. FireBoard CB Plugin - Download Info

Installation:

FireBoard is a Component, so you will install it as so. The following steps walks you through installing the component, setup of database tables, and loading sample data.

1. fire up your Admin
2. select Installers => Components
3. browse for file (component_Fireboard_Forum_1.0.0) and Install
4. select Components => Fireboard Forums
5. select Apply for ‘Clean Installation’
6. select Compoents => FireBoard Forums
7. select ‘Load Sample Data’

Now, that should be enough to have loaded up FireBoard for your Joomla installation. The next thing is to load the FireBoard CB Plugin.

1. still in Admin
2. select Components => Community Builder => Plugin Management
3. select Install Plugin
4. select Publish the new Plugin

Now, the next thing to do is to link it. In this case I linked it to the main public menu, but you can link it to anything you’d like. Personal preference I suppose.

1. still in Admin
2. select Menu => mainmenu
3. select New
4. select Component
5. select Next
6. select Fireboard Forum (Name it: Forum (or whatever))
7. select Save

Ok, so that’s the quick and dirty. I’ll be sure to update this with any additional information I find.

Replace this with data from the breadcrumb array. So, basically, replace this line:

< ? php echo HEADING_TITLE; ?>

With this line:

< ? php echo $breadcrumb->_trail[end(array_keys($breadcrumb->_trail))][’title’]; ?>

Basically what this does is take the title element of the breadcrumb->_trail object and prints it. There’s two places in the index file where this will need to be used. One is for main category listings and the other is for sub category listings. The single echo above should do it.

This may prove to be a bad hack and will need updating by me later on, but for now, this is the way I was able to use the category name as the title for my osCommerce installation.

=> open file /includes/classes/boxes.php
=> find the 2 $right_corner if statements (around line 112 and 118)
=> comment these 2 if statements out
=> then add the following lines:

$right_corner = tep_image(DIR_WS_IMAGES . ‘infobox/corner_right.gif’)

$headingTitle = ‘’;
$headingTitle = $contents[0][’text’];

if ($right_arrow == true) {
$headingTitle = ‘‘ . $headingTitle . ‘‘;

}

=> in the info_box_contents array
=> find: ‘text’ => $contents[0][’text’]),
=> replace with: ‘text’ => $headingTitle),

That should be all there is to change the osCommerce infoBox headings to links the title instead of using the arrow.

* Note: I’d already modified this file to always print the right corner box. In any other case, keep the second right_arrow “if” statement and remove only the append of $right_arrow.

* The Best osCommerce Contributions
* 4 osCommerce Contributions to Know
* Most Popular osCommerce Contributions
* Top 10+ Essential osCommerce Contributions

Here’s the official osCommerce Contributions page:

* http://www.oscommerce.com/community/contributions

It seems much easier to navigate than their Add-Ons page which links from the Community menu:

* http://addons.oscommerce.com/

Here’s the official osCommerce Top Contributions Downloads page:

* http://www.oscommerce.com/community/contributions/top,all

That’s about it from what I see. Surprised there isn’t more of these types of lists (Joomla’s got a ton of them), but it’s a start. They all seem to point to the same basic contributions (wink wink), but even without the lists, jut going by the osCommerce Top Contributions Downloads page should give you an idea of what the most popular osCommerce contributions are.

http://addons.oscommerce.com/info/5807

By piggy banking on this contribution, I was also able to use the breadcrumb to put the Category Name in as the Title.

http://www.oscbuttons.com/

http://www.oscommerce.com/community/contributions,355/page,8

Downloading and installing v2.2rc.2a was simple enough. However, the following error was thrown when attempting a login:

Unknown column ‘customers_block’ in ‘field list’

My initial fix for this was to open the login.php file and edit the following line:

select customers_id, customers_firstname, customers_password, customers_email_address, customers_default_address_id, customers_block, guest_account from ” . TABLE_CUSTOMERS . ” where customers_email_address = ‘” . tep_db_input($email_address). “‘ and guest_account=’0′

All I ended up doing was remove the the filed “customers_block” from the query above. Since I see this field name/parameter nowhere in the osCommerce catalog and because it’s nowhere to be found in any of the sql update files of the contribution, I’m thinking it should do the trick.

The editor an Administrator will be using is JCE Editor, which provides more advanced tools then Joomla’s default editor TinyMCE.

The following instructions will be based on editing an existing Content Item. To add an image you would:

=> select Content Items Manager
=> select a Content Item
=> place curser at intended image location
=> select Insert/Edit Image icon
=> select appropriate Folder
=> select Upload Icon
=> browse for appropriate image
=> add Name for image
=> select preferred options (overwriting)
=> select image you just uploaded
=> select Insert

The image will now be inserted into your Content Item. You can also adjust things such as Size, Alignment, and Border size and color within the Insert/Edit control panel.

You can now Save your Content Item and view with the image you’d just uploaded. As a note; Adding/Editing images through the Administrator handles images technically different then going through the steps of Adding New Memorial or Gallery Item. However, it is not noticable on the front end.