Login as Customer module [Support Thread]

[alhakeem2001]

I'm running the ZENCART 1.3.8a no SSL and I think I have register globals off " not sure 100% though" and installed both of them with master password and with out and when I go to customers and click on Place Order I a quick page flashes with this line : You are logged in as.. Please wait.then it change to a blank page with a default text on :


The page cannot be found
The page you are looking for might have been removed, had its name changed, or is temporarily unavailable. ...........


Where could be the problem ?

Thank in advance

[alhakeem2001]

Thats the text that I get on the page that I come to when I click on Place Order:

Not Found
The requested URL /index.php was not found on this server.

Additionally, a 404 Not Found error was encountered while trying to use an ErrorDocument to handle the request.


Can anyone help on how to fix this problem .. and I know now for sure that I have register globals off " !!

[alhakeem2001]

I fixed it myself and it works now on my test Zencart, Thanks any way

[DogTags]

How did you fix it?

[alhakeem2001]

It's just I have 3 templates in my Zencart, So I had to put the related files into the active template, Thats all what I did and good luck for you

[gtcman]

I looked through this topic but couldn't find an answer. i downloaded the mod and it includes what it seems like a double of everything, two folders named the same except one has ...what folders exactly i need to upload to the server? both? if i do that then they'll overwrite each other!

[alhakeem2001]

I think what you need to do is just to upload each file to the right directory "not the folder" , you can change the name of the original file temporarily on the server "to something else, to keep it as backup", that’s what I normally do. Good luck

[gtcman]

Okay, thank you, it worked.

Here is what i found though an I think the developer needs to address this.

when i logged in as customer, added some items to the shopping cart, then closed the explorer window without logging out and back to the admin, then i highlighted another customer, clicked on the Place Order button, then logged in as that customer. and when i clicked on the shopping carts the items from the previous customer were in this customers shopping cart! it kind of makes sense because the user never logged out, but i think once you click on the Place Order, it should run a routine to log out first and then log in as the current selected customer.

Thanks anyway, its great Mod!

[gjh42]

A properly built mod will not require you to upload individual files, especially if they are in a folder structure already. I presume the two folders are for alternative situations, and only one is intended to be used in any one case. The author could shed more light on this.

Keeping original files renamed in the original locations can sometimes be a problem, as some folders are auto-loading - every file in them will be used. In nearly all cases, if you use the template override system, the original copy of the file is safe in the /template_default/ folder so there is no need to save another copy.
If you are not using the override system, you are setting yourself up for a lot of grief when the next version comes out and you try to upgrade.

For a mod like this that deals with /admin/ files, you do need to replace the originals, so keeping a backup copy elsewhere would be good.

[gtcman]

Thanks for that info Glenn. what i do in my server is create folders called "BACK" one folder in each place where i update or replace files, so i put the originals there and upload the new ones in. i found out the hard way the importance of backing up my files, backing up does saves you allots time...