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Admin Star Rating System

So, got an email from a potential client who wants to be able to make star ratings on a per product basis from within the admin; I will like only myself (the admin or owner of the website) to grade

Posted in 2.3.1, Reader Questions

Warehouse Pick n Pack

Had email from a previous client yesterday who wanted the ability to list the items ordered for the previous day, but grouped by items. The reason for this is to get the warehouse staff to easier collect the items to

Posted in Reader Questions

Turn off Payment method based on currency used

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

Posted in Code Tips, Reader Questions

List of Product Ordered for seasonal promotions

At the osCommerce forum, Heather asked; What Im basically looking for is a list of customers against what products they ordered, some of my products are seasonal, and I want to be able to email the customers that bought them

Posted in Reader Questions

Facebook "LIKE" on your osCommerce shop

Jan asks; possible to put the new like button on osc Yep, and it's super simple, using this quick and dirty code. Step 1: Add this code to your header, footer, or wherever you want the like button to show;

Posted in Code Tips, Reader Questions

osCommerce Style Sheet? Use Colorzilla Firefox.

Sean asks; I've got a bit of trouble with editing the colours in stylesheet.css. I don't have a problem with hex colours or even putting them into the stylesheet, my problem is I don't know which bit is which. Is

Posted in Reader Questions

Search Engine Optimised URLs for osCommerce

Dave asks; Which URL rewriting contribution do you recommend? I get asked this question quite often. In my opinion, there is just two decent versions of URL rewriters, depending upon whether you have PHP4.x or PHP5.x If you are running

Posted in Reader Questions

Open Source is all about choice

Josh commented; First, thank you for the original 1.12 contribution [of discount coupons]. It is a very simple, and very easy to follow install. I have been reading for hours all over your site, mostly about the contribution, but I

Posted in Reader Questions

Only 1 product at a time in osCommerce

Over at the official osCommerce forum, someone asked about the possibility of only allowing a buyer to select 1 of each product.  My answer was to amend the display of the shopping cart and the shopping cart class... It's fairly

Posted in Code Tips, Reader Questions

osCommerce Quiz?

An osCommerce Quiz for you to think about; PLAIN TEXT PHP: switch (tep_get_zone_code($order->delivery['country']['id'], $order->delivery['zone_id'], '')) {                    case 'HI':           case 'AK':           $extra_cost

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