Although I have not logged into the osC forum for a few weeks, I have been directed to a number of threads where users are wanting help. I’ll log in the forum sometime soon. In the meantime, someone for whom I have previously done some consulting asked this; I need to run an SQL query… Read More »
A fellow osCommerce professional asked if I had heard of an add-on that allows the Shop Owner to add a customer review. I was sure that I had created something similar in the recent past, but could not find it, so I set out to code it up. Step 1: add a “add a new… Read More »
Had an email overnight from an osCommerce user who needs to turn on and off payment methods based on what currency is being used in the checkout. I thought I had covered this already in the blog, but could not find it. So here we go; 1. Add an extra input to each payment method… Read More »
Upcoming project is to take the Mega Drop Down Menu of Soh Tanaka and integrate it into osCommerce. It is very straightforward in basic HTML (I managed to get it working within a couple of minutes) based on the examples given, but because I want the category structure to come direct from the database I… Read More »
I cleaned and secured a osCommerce site the other day which is run in a subdirectory of a hosting account, like so /public_html/shop/. The admin area is at /public_html/shop/admin/ [ actually it’s in a randomly named admin folder, but for the blog post, let’s assume it is at /shop/admin/ ] In the root of the… Read More »
Just a quick post as I wanted to remind myself to write more on this. Presently working on some ideas for a client, one of his needs is to have the “reviews” adding functionality in the product page. As we know that to place a review the customer MUST be logged in, I decided to… Read More »
In this post, I’m going to show you how to add a new button into the shopping cart page that will allow your customers to remove all items from their shopping cart in just one click… In standard osCommerce, each product has it’s own individual “remove” link – which is fine and works well. My… Read More »
I needed to code up a feature for a client which tracks a visitor “product_info.php” page views to basically show them what they recently viewed. I have to say that although I never thought about it, this is quite handy to have, as I have often been on the point of buying, looked at something… Read More »
Number three in my short series explaining a little bit about how the 960 Grid system works in osCommerce… Alpha and Omega Classes The Alpha and Omega class is used to align the first and last “child” divs of a parent div to the outermost margins of the page…what is a child div? Have a… Read More »
Number two in a mini-series explaining a little bit about how the 960 Grid system works in osCommerce. Push and Pull Classes The Push class is used to “push” the DISPLAY of a div, and the Pull class is used to “pull” the DISPLAY of a div. Imagine an anchor at the left hand edge… Read More »