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So I finally upgraded my 1.38 store to 1.51. The database upgrade gave a lot of messages about not droping tables that don't exist, and not adding tables that already exist, which all seem benign to...

I'm comparing hideCategories 2.1 with Zen Cart 1.5.

The readme file says 3 core files are overwritten, but actually there are 2 additional files:

includes\classes\db\mysql\define_queries.php...

I'm installing a 1.5.0RC1 demo store in XAMPP, and notice the Database Character Set / Collation formbox selects utf-8 as default. But when I click "more info", the popup message says "By default,...

I'm using Paypal Express only, is it safe to remove Paypal IPN - Website Payments Standard?

Thank you DrByte, I'll remove all the inactive modules. :smile:

Just to add more info on this incident for future references. Paypal shows no record of this transaction, so I'm guessing the...

This is a really odd problem.

I have a store that has only 3 payment modules enabled: Paypal Express, bank transfer and money order. Most customers pay through Paypal (using their paypal account...

OK I just installed a new database and 1.3.8, and the unexpected behaviour persists.

This is what I did:


1. Install new Zen Cart with test products, keep default settings

2. In admin,...

DrByte thank you for your fast response! The site is not live yet so I'm not talking about google, but rather the browser page title and meta tags in the source document (they are all empty).

I...

While experiementing with the category meta tags, I notice that once custom meta tags are defined for a category, it seems impossible to restore to the previous default tags.

I completely removed...

Thanks Ajeh, your advice is very helpful. I think I'll work on hiding sold products_status 1 products then. I guess the sold category link can be hidden via CSS. Search is more difficult as advanced...

Ajeh thank you for your suggestions :smile:, but I still prefer the eBay approach (the one I described above) though. With time the catalog will be flooded with hundreds or thousands of sold out...

How can I make it not show in the catalog, but given a link, customers can still access the product info page for the product they bought?

The reason I ask, is because for stores that sell unique...

Works beautifully!! Thank you DrByte! :clap:

I'm trying to display postage in customer's selected currency, in one of the define pages.

It's $15 Australian dollars flat rate, so if an European selects Euros in the currency side box, the...

Ajeh the store has gone back local so I can't show you right now. But the manner I want to show all products is similar to the way eBay does it, e.g.
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I tried to convert the index page into product all page by copying the content of tpl_products_all_default.php into tpl_index_default.php, but that doesn't work. All I got was a "More products will...

I also want to do the same thing. I mean customers seem to prefer it for convenience, just like eBay.

I guess one way to do it would be to redirect home page to the products all page.

The modification is too advanced for me....

Ajeh is there any plan to get products_date_added built in in the future? I think the drop-down menu sorter used in the other listing pages is...

How can I hide sold out products in the catalog, but keep its url working? This is so that the customer who bought the product can refer back to the product info, or give the url to their friends.......

I talked to my host today about GZip, and got some interesting info on the performance side of things.

I was told that GZip has its use for very large sites like Yahoo (I guess that's why Yahoo...

Thanks mate. I'll have a look at SuperTracker. :smile:

By the way how do people explain to customers about the use of these analytic trackers? My wife was shocked when I first told her about it....

I just trialled the StatCounter. It's very obvious, very easy to use, but I do get the "Secure & Non-Secure" IE messages after installing it, so I removed the code, and the messages are now gone.
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OK I've found a solution to the OP. It does remove the product model from page title, but I'm no php coder, so this solution may have side effects that I'm not aware of.

In...

I'm in the same boat.

Would also like to know if there is a quick way to add a tagline that applies to category page titles only.

DrByte you are a saviour! :D

I agree it should work that way. But as I described in the process above, the new password that I tried is longer than the required minimum, but ZC is still blocking it.

See the screen capture...

ZC 1.3.8a

This is what I've found.

Admin initially allows a minimum of say, 0 characters for password.

The customer sets a 3-character password.

Then admin increases the minimum to 4...

I think I've noticed the problem with older browsers too, so I've been setting font sizes to td directly. Form controls also seem to have similar issues.

Scott thanks for your reply.

I've tested maybe 100 emails this weekend, and I'm pretty sure the right alignment of the order totals is caused by something extrinsic to the html template.

If you...

I can understand how ZC translates the language file texts into HTML emails. It's literally word for word.

But how about things like the order total? On a web page the order totals are aligned to...

Did you specify colours for a:link and a:visited?

My interpretation of DrByte's roadmap is, maybe 1.5.

OK after more through search I've found a fix provided by Ajeh in this thread (bottom of page):

http://www.zen-cart.com/forum/showthread.php?t=56885&page=2

It works by replacing "NONSSL" in the...

Sorry after reading this thread I still don't understand.

On my local machine the setlocale value is the default value i.e. "en_US.ISO_8859-1", but the store time is Sydney time, same as my...

This problem is different to that discussed in the "This page contains both secure and nonsecure items" FAQ.

Right after I log in (over SSL), if I do a search, FF2, FF3, and Opera (amazingly not...

Thanks kobra, that's a good point that I didn't think of. :smile:

When customising ZenCart I find myself frequenly changing texts directly in the template files (by replacing echo statements with real texts), instead of going to the language files. I guess I find...

I've observed that the Paypal button consistently loads slower than my own store checkout button. Perhaps the gif being located on Paypal's secured server has something to do with it. This leads to...

Thanks DrByte. I'll indeed remove it. :smile:

I found the following code in ZenCart's default state.


<h1 id="addressBookProcessDefaultHeading"></h1><h1>Update Address Book Entry</h1>Is that intended?

In the #accountHistInfo page, we have the Order Information table, and the Status History & Comments table. By default each table has a caption, which contains a heading (h2).

When I tried to...

Yeah I thought I was supposed to recieve in "minutes". I've already emailed dotster re: the delay. But their customer service seems a bit slow.

Thanks. That makes perfect sense. Hopefully I'll get my own cert soon. :smile:

After spending ages customising my shop, I've finally moved into the live testing stage. The 1st thing I notice is, the https pages are quite sluggish compared to normal http pages. Is this normal?
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Glenn thanks for your help. I've tried the code and it does work now! :)

OK I've found it at the end of the FAQ.

I actually need to have the left column off except for the index page and product listing pages. Is there any easy way to do it?

How do you do that?

I have featured products displayed on the main page i.e. in the center column.

What I would like to do, is to display products images only, so no product name, nor prices. I thought it would be a...

Thanks Ajeh! This is into php codes but I'll try to work it out .:smile:

Let me use a pic as example. I've used the default template. See how customers would have no use for the update button in this scenario.
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