Somehow, on occassion, orders don’t get through to the admin from the payment processor. I’ve managed to stop this myself with Protx by switching off JavaScript. I would have thought that Protx would update osCommerce automatically but it seems that it still requires the customer to return back to the website before the order is […]

We’ve just finished redoing an existing site with a new design. Sometimes it’s harder working on an existing site than just setting up a new one, as the existing one tends to carry alterations and so you have more to work around. One option the client wanted was not to have new products on the […]

Today I suddenly realised the client had asked for a Site Map when of course osCommerce doesn’t come with one. A quick search on the osCommerce site and I came across Dynamic Sitemap. This is perfect for the job. I added it on within about 10 minutes and then ran through the configuration of the […]

After a recommendation from a well versed osCommerce user I downloaded the Protx Form payment module and installed it on the new site yesterday. The form itself was very straightforward to add, however getting it to work with Protx is another matter.
I’ve configured it with the correct merchant name and what I believe to be […]

When we first installed the auto thumbnailer contribution it worked fine, absolutely perfectly. However after installing the other contributions I noticed that even though the extra pics were resizing on the page, the main product image wasn’t, but it was in the product listings and search results. So I sat down today and ran through […]

So how far have we got? Well the site is now running on the live domain, the client is adding in her products and they’re almost displaying correctly on the front end.
Because of the product photos in use, some are long and narrow, others are square. Not ideal really, but we’ve got to work around […]

So today we decided to start adding the contributions to the new site. Armed with my new file comparison software I made a list of the contributions needed and set to work adding them in to the site code.
Contributions Used:

Auto Thumbnailer
More Pics
Customer Title
Purchase Without Account

All went fine until I realised that the Customer Title contrib […]

A lot of customers won’t want to create an account with you, for whatever reason you don’t want to deter your customers from buying from you. So an express checkout option is a good idea to let those customers who don’t want to create an account still purchase from your store.
Purchase Without Account does the […]

When you start to customise your site from the default installation, adding contributions can become a harder job as you obviously cannot just overwrite the file with the contribution file otherwise you’ll lose your changes. So you have to compare the two sets of code to see what’s changed in the contribution file and copy […]

I’ve been trying to add the option for a Customer Title (Mr/Mrs/Miss etc) to an existing store. Without thinking of searching through the contributions I first hacked the code around to deal with it myself, however after I was half way through I realised how complicated osCommerce makes things. On every order it copies the […]