Tag Archives: Ecommerce shopping cart

Manual Credit Card Processing Shopping Carts

30 Oct

Website client has a need for manually processing credit card orders because he already has a credit card terminal in his office and doesn’t want to incur any extra gateway processing fees.

Magento and Zen Cart have successfully passed the “manual credit card processing” test.

  • Magento keeps the full 16-digit credit card number in the admin back-end
  • Zen Cart keeps half of the 16-digit credit card number in the admin back-end and emails you the other half

Magento Ecommerce – v1.3.2.4 Install Tips on 1and1 Hosting

29 Oct

Brief, non-detailed, overview of installing Magento Ecommerce Shopping Cart v1.3.2.4 on 1and1 Hosting

  1. Download Magento 1.3.2.4 and Sample Data 1.2.0 from http://www.magentocommerce.com/download/noregister
  2. Import Sample Data SQL files into database
  3. Copy Magento Sample Data’s media/catalog folder to Magento/media folder
  4. Follow Magento Installation Guide (http://www.magentocommerce.com/wiki/magento_installation_guide#installation1)
  5. Create a cgi-bin folder in Magento root and add the php5-cgi file from http://www.magentocommerce.com/wiki/magento_installation_guide#step_1upload_the_php5_cgi_binary
  6. FTP everything to the server
  7. Make a bunch of permission changes in a couple different places. See http://www.magentocommerce.com/wiki/magento_installation_guide
  8. Run install
  9. Ran across 2 errors during installation and searched/found/was successful via Google searches (can’t remember what the errors were)
    • One of the changes involved removing all of the countries except “English (United States)” and all of the currencies except “US Dollar” in the magento > app > etc > config.xml file
  10. Front-end 500 Server Error messages when trying to click on page links:
    • Tweaked the .htaccess file
    • Also made change in Magento Admin, under System > Configuration > Web > SEO > NO
  11. That may not be everything I did, but that’s most of it

WordPress Tutorial – WP e-Commerce 3.7.5 RC3: Change “P&P” text to “S&H” for Shipping & Handling

20 Oct

WP e-Commerce shopping cart (v 3.7.5 RC3) for WordPress: Change “P&P” text to “S&H” for shipping & handling on product page.

- For WP e-Commerce shopping cart, version 3.7.5 RC3 (released Oct 20, 2009)
- File located at: wp-e-commerce/languages/EN_en.php
- Line 757:
Change: define(’TXT_WPSC_PNP’, ‘P&P’);
To: define(’TXT_WPSC_PNP’, ‘S&H’);

WordPress Tutorial – WP e-Commerce 3.7.4: Change “P&P” text to “S&H” for Shipping & Handling

19 Oct

WP e-Commerce shopping cart (v3.7.4) for WordPress: Change “P&P” text to “S&H” for shipping & handling on product page.

- For WP e-Commerce shopping cart, version 3.7.4
- File located at: wp-e-commerce/languages/EN_en.php
- Line 749:
Change: define(‘TXT_WPSC_PNP’, ‘P&P’);
To: define(‘TXT_WPSC_PNP’, ‘S&H’);

Magento Ecommerce – Create New CMS Page & Add Link in Top Menu Along with Category Links

3 Nov

Magento Ecommerce: Create a new CMS page and have the link to it show up in the menu alongside the category links.

Brick House Bakery project: adding the Survey page link to the top navigation bar, alongside the existing category links.

1. Create a new CMS page, titled Survey, in Magento’s admin (Admin > CMS > Manage Pages > Add New Page)

This is our newly-created page’s path: http://www.brickhousebakery.com/survey

2. Add “Survey” link as a line-item (<li>) to the top menu (root > magento > app > design > frontend > default > default > template > catalog > navigation > top.phtml)

top.phtml file:

<?php
/**
* Magento
*
* NOTICE OF LICENSE
*
* This source file is subject to the Open Software License (OSL 3.0)
* that is bundled with this package in the file LICENSE.txt.
* It is also available through the world-wide-web at this URL:
* http://opensource.org/licenses/osl-3.0.php
* If you did not receive a copy of the license and are unable to
* obtain it through the world-wide-web, please send an email
* to license@magentocommerce.com so we can send you a copy immediately.
*
* @category   design_default
* @package    Mage
* @copyright  Copyright (c) 2008 Irubin Consulting Inc. DBA Varien (http://www.varien.com)
* @license    http://opensource.org/licenses/osl-3.0.php  Open Software License (OSL 3.0)
*/
?>
<?php
/**
* Top menu for store
*
* @see Mage_Catalog_Block_Navigation
*/
?>
<div class=”header-nav-container”>
<div class=”header-nav”>
<h4 class=”no-display”><?php echo $this->__(‘Category Navigation:’) ?></h4>
<ul id=”nav”>
<?php foreach ($this->getStoreCategories() as $_category): ?>
<?php echo $this->drawItem($_category) ?>
<?php endforeach ?>
<!– bof – added line-item so survey link will appear in the navigation alongside the existing category links –>
<li><a href=”http://www.brickhousebakery.com/survey/”>Survey</a></li>
<!– eof – added line-item so survey link will appear in the navigation alongside the existing category links –>
</ul>
</div>
<?php echo $this->getChildHtml(‘topLeftLinks’) ?>
</div>