I am looking for a PHP based open source full featured shopping cart application which is easiest to learn and to theme.... I don't want to write my own because I'm concerned about the security and I don't really make very handy admins. Plus I have no experience with online selling and this is my first shot. I'm thinking between Magent...
Hi all, I have been asked to upload a Zen Cart site to my servers and have done so fine. I am getting a problem now with the fact that the client has uploaded his custom template into the includes/templates folder and selected it in the admin - but it still wont load it. instead it just loads the template_default style. I am been thro...
Hi, Im sure ive seen a feature in apache that can rewrite urls so you can point domain2.com at domain1.com and it rewrites everything domain1.com to domain2.com on the fly. is there a similar thing for https? In apache, if i go to https://mysite.com, the page itself is over https, but all images/links are http://. Is there way to auto ...
Alright another tough question for you guys to answer. I know I don't make them easy or common. My problem comes in when a user clicks on My Cart while they are already logged in. It some how resets the sessions and logs them out/empties their cart. I also get a fatal error telling me the notify function is not accessible under the o...
I'm considering Prestashop for a new project. It seems to be younger than Zen-Cart and osCommerce. Since I just found it by Google, I'd like to gather comments and experience and comparison of Prestashop to established "brands" like Zen-Cart and osCommerce ...
I am trying to ad a banner ad to the left side of the footer so I have something like this: [ banner ] [ footer information ] This is the code that was in the basic banner module: <div class="content"> <?php $content = ''; // if no active banner in the specified banner group then the box will not show if ($banner = zen...
How do I add an events calendar to Zen Cart? ...
This feature request is already on Zen Cart's roadmap However, i would like to implement this on an e-commerce site that i'm building, and i can't sit around and wait for the Zen Cart team to enable it. Has anyone else attempted to do this? Een some guidelines would be helpful. ...
Is there way to identify which shopping cart open source technology has been used to implemente for any given website? For example: if you are looking at shopping.yahoo.com,shopping.rediff.com can we tell which Shopping cart tool they have used for Example : zen cart, os commerce , magento etc.... I am trying to idenify the website wh...
I currently have PHP 5.3 in XAMPP. I need to run PHP 5.2 to run Zen Cart 1.8 (I'm aware of the patch - but still doesn't work). I would prefer to run it in the same XAMPP environent I'm currently running. Is there a way to do this or do I have to reinstall XAMPP again with PHP 5.2 in another directory or something? Appreciate all inpu...
I've been searching everywhere and there seems to be very little about Zen Cart... at least anything much deeper than "install and go". I'm skinning (templating) a Zen Cart store, but the design I want doesn't fit in with the current layout, so I've had to make extensive changes to tlp_header.php, tpl_footer.php, tlp_main_page.php, etc. ...
Hi, I install zen-cart and configure the E-mail option from the zen-cart backend. But when I tried to send email I got this error Email Error: SMTP Error: The following recipients failed: ...
I have one zen cart website in English language i want to make same website in French and Italian Languages, can you please tell me how can i do this? i mean if i install Language Packs for zen cart, this will convert all the site and data inside database in that language or i have to type data again in particular language. please let ...
I am adding some pages to zen cart admin and I need to update order records from an external process. when i call the page externally it returns a redirect to the login page. how can i pass the auth data to the page so that it doesn't redirect? ex: www.domain.com/admin/do_update.php?admin_name=auser&admin_pass=apass my preference is t...
I hate how it just shows each image and have to click each image to show the enlarged display. Anyway I can re-organize them and/or use a jquery gallery type plugin to go through the different product images? Something like the effect here would be perfect for the product images http://www.sohtanaka.com/web-design/fancy-thumbnail-hover...
I'm interested in writing a Zen Cart payment module for a certain payment-gateway for people to download and install in their ecommerce website. My experience with Zen Cart is minimal so I don't know where to start. I checked the FAQ section on Zen Cart's website and I only found completed modules, no code examples of how to write one fr...
I have created a new database table with the name 'table'. Now i'm trying the following code to write the data into the fields: if (isset ($_POST['request'])) { $F1 = $_POST['F1']; $F2 = $_POST['F2']; $F3 = $_POST['F3']; $F4 = $_POST['F4']; $sql_data_array = array('F1' => zen_db_prepare_input($_POST['F1']), 'F2' => zen_db_prepare_inpu...