Monthly Archives: May 2008

Charges for my osCommerce Services

I've recently been getting more and more enquiries as to what I offer in terms of osCommerce products and services – the info is in the blog, but it is hard to find.  So, I will list my charges; Installation

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Fake Testimonials – do you use them?

Just yesterday a new UK law came into being which "outlaws" the practice of what is known as "fake testimonials"…here is a bit about it; The Consumer Protection Regulations, which implement the EU directive on unfair commercial practices, mark the

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osCommerce on your home computer

I had a few emails over the past days asking just how easy it is to install the new package of PHP, MySQL, PHPMyAdmin, Apache, osCommerce and osCommerce STS… Rather than answer all those emails individually, I decided to make

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MySQL Error 20, -20 in osCommerce

Anna-Marie asks; I went into the admin section to put some products on special & it says the following & I don't know why it is there or how to fix it. "1064 - You have an error in your

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Shipping to US States, tiered + handling

A user on the osCommerce Forum required a way to charge $x for 1 item, $y for any other items and $z as a handling charge for Hawaii and Alaska. With a bit of lateral thinking, I came up with;

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BUY button – is your OUT and PROUD ?

Yesterday I stumbled across a really interesting article, you can read it here. Basically, this article talks about the size of a BUY button which set me to thinking... How about changing the BUY button to something bigger and brighter.

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PCI Compliance

PCI DSS stands for Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard. It was developed by the major credit card companies as a guideline to help organizations that process card payments prevent credit card fraud, cracking and various other security vulnerabilities and

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Shipping Quote based on Per Cent of Total Order

In the past few days I noticed a couple of people wanting to charge postage based on a percentage of the total order amount. I've not come across any pre-existing code that enables this in a correct way - I

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Various Reader Questions; thumbanil, vouchers v2, ms2

Evan asks; I'll be trying a contrib soon, but my problem is pixelated thumbnails. I'd like smaller images for the thumbnails and such. All about thumbnail images! and my solution... Richard asks; Im trying to find a link for Version

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osCommerce Template updated to RC

A quick post to let you know that I have now updated this well known theme to RC2.  This theme makes osCommerce look, act and feel totally different than normal. The basis of this theme is making everything easy to

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