http://www.kliky.net Web Development and Internet Traffic Matters Sat, 04 Oct 2008 20:33:31 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en There is a minor issue with osCommerce when using either 3rd party or ssl certificates assigned to a sub-domain which results in an error reading "Your Shopping Cart is empty!". This happens when ENABLE_SSL is set to true in the configuration file. There has been some discussion on the osCommerce ... http://www.kliky.net/oscommerce/oscommerce-with-ssl-shopping-cart-empty/ osCommerce allows only 32 characters for the Category name length. In order to allow for longer osCommerce category names you can simply update your database table. 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 ... http://www.kliky.net/howto/increase-category-name-length-in-oscommerce/ I recently installed FireBoard with my Joomla installation, which also uses Community Builder. One thing I noticed is the absence of a decent set of step-by-step instructions for the FireBoard install. I'll list here the quick and dirty installation instructions for Joomla FireBoard using Community Builder which I found to be ... http://www.kliky.net/howto/how-to-install-joomla-fireboard-with-community-builder/ I couldn't figure out why osCommerce would print a default heading title (HEADING_TITLE) as the category page titles. In order to use the category name as the page title with osCommerce I had to edit the main index.php file. Find the lines which prints the category and nested category titles ... http://www.kliky.net/howto/oscommerce-print-category-name-as-title/ The osCommerce infoBox arrows are far too small to effectively communicate a linkable area. Instead, I'd think many would just like to make the infoBox title linkable. To accomplish this do the following: => open file /includes/classes/boxes.php => find the 2 $right_corner if statements (around line 112 and 118) => comment these 2 ... http://www.kliky.net/howto/link-oscommerce-infobox-heading/ I find that checking out these favorites, or top ten lists, or best of lists often times helps one get an idea of what's available for these open source applications. In this case, here's a few links to some lists ranking osCommerce contributions: * The Best osCommerce Contributions * 4 osCommerce Contributions ... http://www.kliky.net/howto/oscommerce-contributions-top-lists/ Found this useful contribution which allows you to place the actual product name in the breadcrumb. Not sure why this isn't part of the core, but that's not for me to ask: 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 ... http://www.kliky.net/howto/oscommerce-add-product-name-to-breadcrumb/ Found quick and dirty online button generator that does a decent enough job. oscButtons allows you to quickly mock up buttons, dump into your images directory and give a you a decent idea of what it would look like. Check it out here: http://www.oscbuttons.com/ http://www.kliky.net/tools/oscommerce-button-generator-oscbuttons/ I've just recently began a project using osCommerce and needed to streamline the checkout process. I wanted to allow the purchaser the options of navigating directly to payment, instead of having to first login or create an account. I found the osCommerce contribution "Purchase Without Account" to be the answer: http://www.oscommerce.com/community/contributions,355/page,8 Downloading ... http://www.kliky.net/howto/oscommerce-purchase-without-account-database-error/ This addition to the Joomla Documentation addresses adding/editing/managing images for both Static and regular Content Items. 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 ... http://www.kliky.net/howto/add-and-edit-images-with-joomla-jce-editor/