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Did you turn on the spam code feature in Admin > General settings? did you update your database if from a previous version? or have you made modifications to the tellafriend.inc.php? give us a few details and we might be able to track it down... Kinetic

CubeCart is full fledged shopping cart system handling easy product setup and categorys to checkout using multiple payment options giving your customers a choice of how they want to pay It also allows you to "skin" your store the way you want if you know html and css (getting a quality web designer is recommended) It allows you to sell your items with a minimum of hassle as it should be I design cubecart skins and help cubecart site owners do e-commerce the right way using cubecart and I simply couldnt recommend any other system besides cubecart read around on the forum and read the features list for cubecart and Im sure you wil come to the same conclusion

Define "3rd Party" logging into your admin???? why would you want anyone who isnt an admin to login to your admin area? Customers LOGIN to their own Customer CP on the front side of your site to place their orders Also filling in a login form to login to admin if they are an admin or logging in to the front side if a customer is a security measure.... they should never be able to click a link and be automatically logged in anyone could get the user and pass from such a link and that anyone could do what ever they wanted...

Browser refresh warning: Thats because the user has input data to the credit card page try again: theres a good reason people need to be taken back two steps to reset the order...

this is definitely a bug fix and I have spent all morning fixing clients websites who use authorize.net this code change should be made part of the current version of cubecart 3 and hopefully has made it its way into the CubeCart 4 nice Job RdWilder!!!! Kinetic

Just search for "Category description Mod" by estelle

Well done stuart was just about to post that very same information for you and all you will need to do is change the names of those files to your new page index.php to mynewpage.php etc etc sometimes we just need a special page or place where our customers can go to get some different info...

I would have spooksie UPGRADE you to the latest version CC 3.0.17 it addresses several security issues.... Good luck! Kinetic

man the quote block is driving me crazy

Hey albie yeah theres a export to csv mod by sir William that is excellent for that very thing I was under the assumption you wanted to show visitors or customers that if they were looking at product a that it would also show them what other customers bought when they bought product a Ive used the xport to csv mod on alot of my clients sites and it definetly works a treat

Sure Fuzquia if you login to your paypal account and click profile then click Website payment preferences then scroll to the very bottom there is an option PayPal Account Optional When this feature is turned on, your customers will go through an optimized checkout experience. This feature is available for Buy Now, Donations, and Shopping Cart buttons, but not for Subscription buttons. turn this to ON customers will then be presented with a secure checkout or login or create a paypal account if they select secure checkout they will be able to simply enter their credit card info and complete the transaction. as for not registering (on your store not paypal) there are a couple of mods that will do just that but you will have to go to the cubecartforums.org site and look in the commercial mods. Hope this helps Kinetic

if your images are on the internet there is no way to stop someone form getting them not even with disable right click scripts especially if they use firefox because in firefox you can tell it to stop sites from disabling or removing context menus and at the very least They can simply pull your images out of their temporary internet cache remember you dont go to a website the website comes to your computer watermarking is the only sure way to discourage image theft

check the cubecartforums.org site for commercial mods for Customer also bought

It would help us to help you if you provided the cubecart version of the site... 3.0.0.13? .15? what?

Thanks kinetic, but this is a separate issue, i've already been pulling my hair out over the problem you speak of last week and have been successfully using a script similar to pngfix.js to fix the IE6 problem. The problem I refer to is specifically thumbnails, when CubeCart creates the thumbnail (Using GD for PHP I believe) from the original transparent PNG it makes the thumbnail with a black background. Thanks. Ok then well since when does GD support png transparency? Id make the thumbnails by hand and upload them via FTP heres some google links about it http://www.google.com/search?q=GD+support+...GL_enUS177US215

this is a known issue with IE 6 it does not support png transparencies Firefox and IE 7 do there is a pngfix..js http://homepage.ntlworld.com/bobosola/pnghowto.htm and add the pngfix.js to your js folder and add their code to reference or link to the java script in your /skins/Yourskin name/styleTemplates/global/index.tpl in the head section I have successfully used the pngfix.js with several cubecart sites for clients one side note pngfix.js does require the image to have a width and height set for the image for it to work and cubecarts product images and thumbnails do not carry a width or height attribute so you would have to modify the viewCat.tpl and the viewProd.tpl to have a width and height to the images and your images (product photos) and product thumbnails would have to be all the same size.

when creating the link you need to make it a absolute URL which would mean INCLLUDING the http:// instead of www.mydomain.co.uk make it thusly http://www.mydomain.co.uk the FCK editor will remove the http:// in the URL field and so long as you have the protocol set to http:// (in the drop down menu it should work if it doesnt Id suggest going to the 3rd party forum and searching for the fck editor update and updating your FCK editor Hope this helps Kinetic

Number one is stop redirecting your site from site root to /shop/ redirects will get you penalized by search engines... Only if your site root contains other content or a different section to your whole domain should you put your store under a subfolder. from 15 Minute SEO "The <Refresh> metatag is one way to redirect visitors from your site to another. Only do it if you have recently migrated your site to a new domain and you need to temporarily redirect visitors. When used for a long time, the <refresh> metatag is regarded as unethical practice and this can hurt your ratings. In any case, redirecting through 301 is much better." http://www.webconfs.com/15-minute-seo.php I would also add that if you havent got Estelles free category descriptions mod that you do so it has been shown over and over again that e-commerce sites w/o content in their categories will do less than those that carry good solid content even newegg was in this boat and hired a marketing firm to write content for their categories and it increased their sites traffic for things like hard drives while meta keywords and meta descriptions dont hold the weight they used to they are still important and one shouldnt stuff your keyword list keep it short and sweet and relevant ketywords come from well written content also the number 1 thing for SEO is backlinks 1 way links from other sites to yours not reciprocol links but one way links I would ask each of these artist whose artwork you are licensed for to link to YOU and always remember if you are hoping to live off traffic generated by search engine traffic you will starve you must do other traditional forms of advertising from your signature on forums where allowed to email signatures to print advertising and if you can afford it radio Good luck!!! Kinetic

1 Have you enabled IPN on your paypal account? and given paypal the return URL? this would set orders to processing automatically 2) are you using the stock levels for each product? this would reduce stock levels as soon as the order is created in the database ( I Believe) Hope this helps Kinetic

redirect from your index to your store is NOT reccomended as this will severely hurt you in the search engines moving your store up one folder is an easy task simply download all your site file to your computer (Backup) then edit the includes/global.inc.php <?php $glob['dbdatabase'] = 'your_database_name' ; $glob['dbhost' ] = 'localhostor other sql host server' ; $glob['dbusername'] = 'your_databaseusername' ; $glob['dbpassword'] = 'yourdatabasepassword' ; $glob['dbprefix' ] = '' ; $glob['installed' ] = '1' ; $glob['rootDir' ] = '/path/to/your/root/store' ; $glob['rootRel' ] = '/store/'; $glob['storeURL' ] = 'http://www.yourdomain.com/store'; ?> to this <?php $glob['dbdatabase'] = 'your_database_name' ; $glob['dbhost' ] = 'localhost or other sql host server' ; $glob['dbusername'] = 'your_databaseusername' ; $glob['dbpassword'] = 'yourdatabasepassword' ; $glob['dbprefix' ] = '' ; $glob['installed' ] = '1' ; $glob['rootDir' ] = '/path/to/your/root' ; $glob['rootRel' ] = '/'; $glob['storeURL' ] = 'http://www.yourdomain.com'; ?> you will see what you need to change basically all you have to edit is the rootDir, rootRel and storeURL hope this helps again a redirect will KILL you on search engines MOVE THE STORE UP! Kinetic the last 3 lines of the global.inc.php

the front end of your store doesnt use SSL protocol only the admin and the checkout side of things home page, site docs categories and product pages do not use SSL ONLY pages in the checkout side registration, profile (your account) and cart there is no need for SSL on product pages or site docs or other content areas only areas that could contain sensitive information need the SSL try registering as a customer and see if you are under the https protocol or add something to your cart and then view cart... Hope this clears things up... Kinetic

https and http are different protocols and use different ports no need to upload anything like the previous post suggested it seems your SSL certificate has not been installed on the server and your new IP hasnt been issued I would contact your hosting company to install the certificate for you as they need to do this another reason it might be failing is that once a certificate is installed on the server for your domain it can take 24-72 hours for the changes to propagate around the web. Once you have verified your certificate is indeed installed and working you will need to login to your Admin cp for cubecart and enable the SSL settings Hope this helps Kinetic

iFrames and frames are a NO NO search engines wont spider the iframed content and you are breaking the license agreement by using one on a cubecart store also people wont be able to bookmark your stores pages skin your store to look like your site also heres a good list of dos and donts for websites http://www.lazycat.org/postcards read it know it understand it and your customers will thank you.... Kinetic

yes cubecart has paypal pro with it yes you can link from your main site right to a product page of all the ecommerce software out there cubecart is by far the most flexible and extensible and EASIEST to use on site owners if you read the manual and arent afraid to explore your cubecart stores admin area...

your answer lies in front of your eyes the Item/Product Name: Cart Order No: 070713-003637-9099 Item/Product Number: 070713-003637-9099 Invoice ID: 070713-003637-9099 the number being given is the Cart ORDER ID you would login to Your stores ADMIN and click ORDERS then click on the order ID this will show you ALL details of the order you can even SEARCh for orders right from the ADMIN home page You wont ever see the order details in your paypal account just that they Did in fact successfully pay you your stores admin is where you track orders and full fill them thats the whole point of your stores admin besides making products categorys and site docs number one coolest place in your stores admin is your ORDER section shoot you can even print packing slips from the order details Hope this clarifies things for you Kinetic