Is there a way or variable where i can change the name to log into the admin

Instead of www.domain.com/admin

can i change it to

www.domain.com/CustomAdminName

This is so that the cart is a bit more secure from the general "admin" login that many know

I've not looked into this, but a better way may be using .htaccess password protection (assuming you're using Linux hosting) in the /admin directory.
You can also do the same kind of thing on a Windows server using account permissions.

Many servers have brute force detection build-in, and so repeated log-in attempts would result in a blocked IP address.
The site below has a nice tool for generating the password file, and some general info.
http://tools.dynamicdrive.com/password/

Place the .htaccess file in /admin, the password file in the root of your account (the level above your www), and you should be good to go.
Store the log-in details in a safe place, if you keep getting them wrong, your server may block you....

Jason

v4 has this feature

Thanks both for the replies

My host doesn't allow there to be a folder called 'admin' in root because it's actually used by the hosting control panel... I tried changing the admin folder name and then it breaks the admin area.

I'm running the latest version 3 of CubeCart. It would be nice to know if with version 3 there is a way to do this. I plan on upgrading to the paid version 4 but I wanted to get familiar with the application before doing so.

Any help would be great. Thank you in advance.

Well, it depends how much work you are willing to do and what tools you have available.

I used my programmer's text editor to find all occurances in the code for "/admin".

There are 18 occurances in the code and two occurances in each of the language files.

Almost all of the 18 are form action parameters and look like:
action="<?php echo $GLOBALS['rootRel'];?>admin/..."

You can either change all occurances of /admin to /whatever, then re-up your store, or create a new $GLOBALS variable, 'adminRel', and make it equal to rootRel&&whatever, and change all the instances of the code.

But there's gonna be code changes. Here's the files and line numbers:

\admin\adminusers\administrators.php(178)
\admin\adminusers\changePass.php(65)
\admin\includes\header.inc.php(57)
\admin\includes\header.inc.php(65)
\admin\includes\navigation.inc.php(102)
\admin\includes\navigation.inc.php(103)
\admin\misc\licForm.php(59)
\admin\modules\index.php(59)
\admin\modules\affiliate\iDevAffiliate\index.php(66)
\admin\modules\affiliate\JROX\index.php(64)
\includes\functions.inc.php(120)
\install\index.php(127)
\install\index.php(575)
\install\index.php(743)
\install\index.php(744)
\modules\gateway\HSBC\form.inc.php(47)

(This is for 3.0.15)