New Sexy Admin Area
Written By Gary on Jan 29 2008 ·
I just created a new Sexy Looking Admin Area for osCommerce RC1. It's untested on any other osCommerce platform.
It changes the look of the Admin from this:
To This:
As you can see, quite a difference! It's a 1 minute install, just overwrite your base RC1 files with the files contained in the .zip - but remember that if you have made changes in your Admin files, and you overwrite them - those changes will be lost! So if you have made changes, it's probably best to not to install this, unless you have a bit of knowledge of CSS 
You can download it from the official osCommerce contributions area.
Hello,
is it working with ms2?
Comment by Tsunami — January 29, 2008 @ 6:31 pm
its about time someone changed the look and feel of the admin section. great job! I am going to try this when I get home from work.
Comment by Joe — January 29, 2008 @ 7:58 pm
Tsunami; this is untested with ms2. It is designed for Rc1 release of osCommerce. If there is enough interest I can make a RC2 and a MS2 version - no problem.
Joe; please let me know how you get on
Comment by Gary — January 29, 2008 @ 8:21 pm
hello,
give us a ms2 version
but i have over 30 contributions
is it only the left menu or more then that?
regards
Comment by Tsunami — January 29, 2008 @ 11:05 pm
I also have now completed "Sexy Admin" for MS2.2 060817 - you can download it from here.
Comment by Gary — January 30, 2008 @ 1:58 pm
I took the login page from rc1 and put it on MS2.2 will that interfere with it?
Comment by Bushmaster — January 31, 2008 @ 7:37 pm
Bushmaster - I don't think that the login page from RC1 would play nicely with the MS2.2 admin. You should use .htaccess to secure the Admin of MS2.2.
Did you mean the "index page"?
Comment by Gary — January 31, 2008 @ 7:45 pm
It seem to work fine. I will set it up on the test site and pm you the info and you can see what you think.
Comment by Bushmaster — January 31, 2008 @ 8:23 pm
That'd be great, thanks Bushmaster.
Comment by Gary — January 31, 2008 @ 10:03 pm
PM sent at osCommerce forums. Nice site by the way. I'll try putting in your admin template after you have checked it out.
Comment by Bushmaster — February 1, 2008 @ 12:10 am
Seems to work fine Bushmaster. Have a go at the template.
Now released Sexy Admin RC2a - here.
Comment by Gary — February 1, 2008 @ 11:03 am
Will start on it as soon as I get home.
Comment by Bushmaster — February 1, 2008 @ 7:03 pm
Will need to use the MS2.2 version
Comment by Bushmaster — February 1, 2008 @ 7:06 pm
Template is in. the only file that kept it from being a drop in was admin/includes/boxes/configuration.php There is yellow boxes on the links at bottom any way to get rid of that?
Comment by Bushmaster — February 1, 2008 @ 10:05 pm
Its good admin Area.
Comment by Rajinder Sharma — February 2, 2008 @ 6:51 am
BM; opent he stylesheet.css file and remove:
background: yellow;
What was the problem with the configuration box? Do I need to fix anything in the download?
Comment by Gary — February 2, 2008 @ 9:31 am
It is cool. Can I use your designed. I need to buy license fron u?
Comment by Keith Low — February 2, 2008 @ 1:35 pm
Keith - for personal use, it is free of charge
The theme and graphics are mine, so you cannot sell those 
Comment by Gary — February 2, 2008 @ 2:41 pm
For the normal setup it would be drop in but to use the Administrators
in the configuration section I had to add a line to it. I would say they need to fix the database structure before you change your work. They added the Admin group but never set a config ID for it so it could be dynamic. In the version I have anyways. I will have to check out RC2a and see if they changed it.
Comment by Bushmaster — February 3, 2008 @ 10:32 pm
BM - thanks for that. Good to know the problem ain't with the contribution
Comment by Gary — February 4, 2008 @ 5:54 pm
Im interested on New Sexy Admin Area.
But can the creator make a version compatible with oscmaxv2-RC3?
http://www.oscmax.com
Comment by Luis Rosario — March 16, 2008 @ 2:30 am
Hi Luis - I will certainly take a look at doing that, but no promises
Comment by Gary — March 16, 2008 @ 10:49 am
Hello,
The admin page now does not show the link to STS (Simple Template System) under Modules. Do you have any updates to address this?
Comment by Michael — March 27, 2008 @ 12:20 am
Hi Michael - I'm not sure why it would show the STS link? It doesn't use STS. If you have got STS installed;
a. you must be mad
b. you'll need to re-add the link manually.
The same goes for any other contributions that you might already have added to your sstore before implementing the sexy admin. They will all have been lost.
Comment by Gary — March 27, 2008 @ 8:59 am
Thanks for the quick reply Gary,
I managed the get the STS link under Modules back on the admin page without too much effort.
Thanks for the help and the contribution.
M.C.
Comment by Michael — April 2, 2008 @ 10:08 pm
the admin area does not have password protection on it, this is unsecure but does look nice, its a shame about the login, as it is at the moment you navigate to the admin section and it will not display the login screen, it simply does not need a username or password to access the admin side
Comment by AQ — June 17, 2008 @ 10:55 pm
AQ: older versions of oscommerce had no protection in the admin section. You have to use .htaccess
Comment by Gary — June 18, 2008 @ 12:11 pm
Hi Gary,
Your admin looks really good, as you probably guessed, I won't be able to use the drop-in files option.
In order for it to work with my admin, I guess I'll need to modify my column_left.php include file along the lines of the one you included.
As for the main admin files, is it just adding a bunch of css id's or is it more tricky to get it working properly ?
Carine
Comment by Carine — June 18, 2008 @ 10:45 pm
Hi Carine - it's just a bunch of id's - nothing major
Comment by Gary — June 21, 2008 @ 9:10 am
The version for MS2.2, doesn't work for me.. I think that i don't have same admin files, because I just use directory password..
Thank You!!
Comment by Luiz — September 6, 2008 @ 1:41 pm
Luiz - use the older version
Cheers, Gary
Comment by Gary — September 8, 2008 @ 6:06 pm