Charges for my osCommerce Services
Written By Gary on May 29 2008 · Comments Off

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
Most of my own contributions cost £25 ($50) to install - this is because I know the […]

Fake Testimonials - do you use them?
Written By Gary on May 27 2008 · Comments (0)

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 biggest shake-up in UK consumer law for 40 years.  As well as a duty for companies […]

osCommerce on your home computer
Written By Gary on May 26 2008 · Comments (0)

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 a video showing just how easy it is!

It's about a 3 minute video as it shows […]

MySQL Error 20, -20 in osCommerce
Written By Gary on May 26 2008 · Comments (2)

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 SQL syntax; check the manual that corresponds to your MySQL server version for the right syntax to [...]

Shipping to US States, tiered + handling
Written By Gary on May 23 2008 · Comments (2)

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;
Club osCommerce USA Tiered Shipping
This contribution allows the Store owner to set a cost for: [...]

BUY button - is your OUT and PROUD ?
Written By Gary on May 21 2008 · Comments (7)

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.
The BUY button has to be the most important button in any e-commerce site so why [...]

PCI Compliance
Written By Gary on May 20 2008 · Comments (0)

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 threats. A company processing, storing, or transmitting payment card data must be PCI DSS compliant [...]

Shipping Quote based on Per Cent of Total Order
Written By Gary on May 18 2008 · Comments (2)

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 do know of a `hack` to the "products weight" field, but the problem with that is [...]

Various Reader Questions; thumbanil, vouchers v2, ms2
Written By Gary on May 16 2008 · Comments (0)

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 2 of Gift Vouchers
Version 2 is available only as an installed service at this moment.  The cost of [...]

osCommerce Template updated to RC
Written By Gary on May 15 2008 · Comments (0)

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 find.
The categories infoBox is "open", it has category tabs along the top and category subtabs [...]