If you’d like to check your loaded extensions on a Linux machine, create a PHP file with this line: print_r(get_loaded_extensions()); If the file where named print_extensions.php, save and run your file from the command line: php print_extensions.php That’s it. This is how you can check the extensions loaded on your Linux server. Incoming search terms:check [...]
If you’d like to change your shell to bash you can first view your shell by entering the following at the command line: echo $SHELL To change your shell to bash you’ll need to know it’s location. For FreeBSD enter the following to change your shell: chsh -s /usr/local/bin/bash Incoming search terms:how to change shellchange [...]
Below are some notes on how I implemented Google eCommerce Tracking with my osCommerce store. You can view Google’s instructions on enabling e-commerce tracking here: http://www.google.com/support/googleanalytics/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=55528 In order to add Google transactions tracking to my osCommerce store I needed to edit both the checkout_success.php and footer.php files. I edited both these files because I’m already [...]
There is sometimes confusion with the setup of state specific tax rates with osCommerce. For instance if you are charging state taxes shipped within state for such states as Ohio (OH) or California (CA) then you need to assure that a few settings are correctly configured. The primary issue is that even after setting up [...]
There’s been huge issues with Flash 9 and embedded flash videos either not playing at all or playing without sound. This problem is sometimes associated with Firefox not playing video sounds, YouTube embedded videos not playing, and with Flash 9 itself. There’s some fixes out there requireing updates to the registry, updates to the Flash [...]
Updating shipping options have some specials rules due to it being a custom module. I’ve listed the text below from the module’s README file for further reading. Updating shipping methods require the following steps. Uninstall Table Rate Shipping Module (in Admin) => open up the admin at www.domain.com/badminton/ => select Modules => select Shipping => [...]
There is a minor issue with osCommerce when using either 3rd party or ssl certificates assigned to a sub-domain which results in an error reading “Your Shopping Cart is empty!”. This happens when ENABLE_SSL is set to true in the configuration file. There has been some discussion on the osCommerce Forums regarding “Shopping cart empty [...]
osCommerce allows only 32 characters for the Category name length. In order to allow for longer osCommerce category names you can simply update your database table. There are two ways to do this. The first is by using something like phpMyAdmin to increase the length of the categories_name field in the categories_description table. If you’re [...]
I recently installed FireBoard with my Joomla installation, which also uses Community Builder. One thing I noticed is the absence of a decent set of step-by-step instructions for the FireBoard install. I’ll list here the quick and dirty installation instructions for Joomla FireBoard using Community Builder which I found to be quite simple. You must [...]
I couldn’t figure out why osCommerce would print a default heading title (HEADING_TITLE) as the category page titles. In order to use the category name as the page title with osCommerce I had to edit the main index.php file. Find the lines which prints the category and nested category titles in and around line 68 [...]
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