How can I add to the credit card types, we accept?

[mrkay]

The company I work for has several websites which I maintain. One of the sites is powered by the Zen Cart, but not a standard version - it has been modified by a 3rd party software vendor. I've been asked to add to the credit card types, we accept, and from what I can tell the drop-down list is being populated by a database table.

My question is - is it possible to get direct access to then Zen sql server?

Thanks in advance.

[schoolboy]

The conventional way to get direct access to a database that is linked to a particular zencart installation, is through a program called phpMyAdmin.

If your host has it enabled, this program is usually linked through your host account admin panel - often called the C-PANEL (as this is the software many hosts use to facilitate user-account management.)

Depending on the VERSION of C-Panel, you can access phpMyAdmin by following links to "mySQL Databases" on the C-Panel main screen.

In later versions of C-Panel, there could be a direct link to phpMyAdmin.

If there are several databases hosted, you will need to know which one is relevant to your zencart installation, and this can be discovered by looking at one of the configure.php files.

Again. you can open these files in C-Panel (File Manager) and the one you can look at is in the /includes/ directory.

It may be permission protected (CHMOD 0444) but as you are just going to LOOK at it - not edit it - you should not need to change permissions.

Within the configure.php file will be a reference to the database name, database USER name, and USER password.

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BUT... I see your objective is to change what credit cards you accept...

Be very careful here... What you do, and how you alter this data is important...

If you are taking credit card details for offline processing, then the LUHN ALGORITHM that zc uses to verify card numbers may also need to be altered.

If you use a payment gateway (a bank) to process CC payments, then displaying what credit cards are acceptable is done differently.

Before you rush in, be a lot more specific about what you want displayed, the method you use to effect CC payments, and WEHERE you want the new information to appear.

[Kim]

... or you could just check the Zen Cart Admin> Configuration> Credit Cards and change which cards you accept there ...

[schoolboy]

OF course Kim's correct... When you said you wanted to ADD credit cards, I did not assume you just wanted to ENABLE them.

To ENABLE more credit card options, follow Kim's advice.

To ADD more credit cards - bear in mind what I said earlier.

[mrkay]

OF course Kim's correct... When you said you wanted to ADD credit cards, I did not assume you just wanted to ENABLE them.

To ENABLE more credit card options, follow Kim's advice.

To ADD more credit cards - bear in mind what I said earlier.

Thanks for the advice Kim and Schoolboy, but I have tried that already - it was the first thing I did.

As I mentioned in the first post, the cart has been modified by a 3rd party sofware vendor. Somehow I think they've disabled that facility when they made their modifications.

Furthermore, I'm not actually trying to add any cards, I just want to change the wording for one of the entries in the drop-down list where the customer chooses their card type.

[schoolboy]

If it's a drop-down list, chances are the text is somewhere in the database - probably in the configuration tables.