http://www.clubosc.com Showcasing osCommerce - the good, the bad and the ugly! Wed, 23 Jul 2008 09:17:46 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Shipping is just about the easiest thing to learn to code in osCommerce - what I am going to do in this post is deconstruct a shipping module so that you learn a little bit about how it works... The module we are looking at is /includes/modules/shipping/flat.php - starting from the ... http://www.clubosc.com/deconstructing-an-oscommerce-shipping-module.html I'm now offering a new service whereby I "mirror" your live oscommerce site onto your own home computer. There are many reasons why you would want to do this, one of the most important being the fact that you will always have a backup should any of your live files become ... http://www.clubosc.com/your-oscommerce-site-on-your-home-computer.html Alan asks; Is it possible to record the ip address of each sale? Alan, yes it is. But it is not standard osCommerce procedure to do so. Adding an IP address recorder is really easy and is a simple modification that amnyone, and I mean ANYONE can make. There ... http://www.clubosc.com/recording-ip-address-in-oscommerce.html Chris writes; I was thinking that it would be great if you make a constribution that It will add a checkbox on the checkout about a giftwrap. Also under this option it would be good a textbox so the customer can leave a message to be in the card outside of ... http://www.clubosc.com/gift-wrapping-in-oscommerce.html A new contribution which allows your buyer to "round up" his order to the next nearest whole dollar/euro/pound etc. So instead of paying say $96.32, they can "round up" to $97.00 - and you, the shop owner would then do whatever you want (donate to charity I'd assume!) with ... http://www.clubosc.com/donate-the-change.html All - I recently made a shipping date modification for a client, you can see it in action on this video (You Tube). It basically adds a shipping date for the customer to choose when their order should be delivered. The store owner can set any date range (eg, start ... http://www.clubosc.com/sponsor-needed-shipping-date-in-oscommerce.html I haven't made a Hot 100 blog post for a while, so now is the time, particularly as we surpassed 100 extraordinary osCommerce sites! The other day I added a few more sites which brought the total to 101 - now I have to work out a way to ... http://www.clubosc.com/hot-100-update-we-have-100.html Suf writes; How can I create category links with pictures in the main section of the home page? The category links are currently in the left column with no pictures. That is fine for other pages in the cart, but the home page should have the categories in main ... http://www.clubosc.com/category-links-in-main-page-jagged-pictures.html Note that this was a comment from "Jason" who didn't have the balls to leave a real email address - anonymity is the sort of BS that I hate. So, as I cannot answer him by email... Jason writes; When are you going to have the WORKING version available to OSC ... http://www.clubosc.com/boo-hoo-hoo.html Anna asks; I have on my website over 500 lines & growing, & I was wondering if there is anywhere in oscommerce I can produce (print out) a products list for people that haven't got access to a computer that wants to order from a catalogue. I really don't want to ... http://www.clubosc.com/printable-list-of-products-thumbnails.html