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    Batch Edit Product Options

    in Technical Help

    Posted

    If you have created all your product color options and attributes then assign all the options to one product

    you can then do a Quick Assign

    of that inital product to each of the other products one at a time from the product options screen

    its not abatch add but it is much faster than assign say 5 color options to each product

    more of a clone job...

    the quick assign is at the top of the product options screen

    if you have already assigned some options to all your products simply remove it all from all but one

    then use that one to quick assign the full option set

    Kinetic

    Need help placing html

    in Technical Help

    Posted

    Have you looked in Admin general settings?

    you will find the global meta description and meta keyword fields there

    then you should look at your site doc and home page edit sections

    page titles for those are there as well

    then you just need to set page title and meta information for each category and product in view categories and view products and edit each one

    page titles will pick up the doc, category, product name

    you dont need to edit any "source" to do any of this

    just take a good look around in admin....

    every single type of page: home page, site doc, category, product page has fields for meta description, meta keywords and page title

    Cubecart online support

    in Technical Help

    Posted

    Funny I have always found CubeCart support to be timely, knowledgeable, helpful, paitient, and there when ya need them?

    How have they failed you?

    can you be specific?

    It does help support and others on the forum if you are very specific and descriptive... ;)

    Help Needed With Zips

    in Technical Help

    Posted

    Or use my favorite WSFTP PRo by Ipswitch

    in any event you need to have a FTP client program to upload zip fuiles to a downloads folder you make on the same level as your site root so the downloads are only accessible from within the cubecart system

    then give cubecart the path to the file

    /home/yourAcctName/downloads/mycoolfile.zip

    You can always google FTPing and different ftp clients

    Kinetic

    Google Conversion Tracking

    in Technical Help

    Posted

    CubeCart 4 has google analytics built in you simply need to place your id number from google int he field provided in General settings and make sure you set your google analytics acct to use the new ga.js method not the legacy urchin

    We are using this method in all of my v4 clients and all of them are tracking data properly...

    Problem with IE6 adding extra 'add to basket' & 'more

    in Technical Help

    Posted

    Hi

    I've got a problem with a CubeCart 3.0.18 store.

    It works fine in IE7 and Firefox etc but in IE6, on my category page it lists 2 lots of 'more info' and 'buy it now' buttons of the last product on the page.

    To see this in action take a look here in IE6.

    I have the following mods installed:

    SEO Mod

    Category Description Mod

    Product Images with JS

    Premium Manufacturers

    Stock Levels for Product Options

    Any help on this gratefully received.

    Something in the code for the category table rows is wrong

    if one of your mods asked you to modify that viewCat.tpl

    or added a new viewCat.tpl some where like some of Estelles mods do

    you would need to contact the mod author for a fix

    Ive seen this with her wishlist/gift registry mod (extra rows or messed up tables in viewCat)

    but only in IE6

    Kinetic

    CubeCart Captcha Sucks

    in Technical Help

    Posted

    I expect more from paid software. When cubecart was free, well, thats one thing. It isn't anymore. These little annoyances shouldn't exist.

    Oh, and I submitted a bug report once for a very simple authorize.net issue, that was 9 months ago I think. Hasn't been fixed yet. That is a genuine bug, and not just a feature I'd like to be able to turn off which is more a feature request.

    what version of CubeCart are you running?

    Upgrading to 4.3 for us was a breeze

    and well worth it in getting all their v3 mods upgraded to v4 versions

    btw captcha was originally a 3rd party mod and has now become standardized in cube cart

    as well SEO URLs

    and many more

    CubeCart does its core developments and doesnt steal 3rd party developers code and just make it standard

    to they let the 3rd party developers make a buck or two and if the mod is deemed a must have then usually cubecart will make a deal with them and make it standard

    this is pretty much standard practice for any system out their you can download install and set up social networks, multiple shoppoing carts, forums including vBulletin I believe they have 3rd party developers? selling mods?

    providing tweaks hacks and annoyances relief?

    I personally LOVE CubeCart 3rd party developers and dont mind buying their modifications and extending CubeCart

    I love writing my own hacks and tweaks and share them

    w/o 3rd party developers a feature or request or feature request would take longer to be developed letting other coders write their mods

    opens up development much faster and much broader

    a single team of even skilled individuals will never come up with the same volume of mods as a broad based open source network

    and have them as stable quicker...

    CubeCart Captcha Sucks

    in Technical Help

    Posted

    At least I dint call anyone no names...

    well I called myself a twit

    but never did I resort to using bad language

    not calling anyone names

    and provided a solution as well

    and I only said I find it funny...

    If you are so good with e-commerce and have tried all these things (although I bet you didnt apply the fixes I provided in reg.inc.php...) because I know they work

    and dont much care for CubeCart nor its customers of which Im one and love to call them twits

    and you have so much professional EXPERIENCE

    how come you act so badly on this forum? liek you are some big shot and deserve better treatment than anyone else?

    you have CubeCart 4?

    you paid for a license?

    how come you havent submitted a bug report or a ticket?

    the developers at cubecart are helpful

    and usually will go above and beyond to help customers

    especially when its so simple a tweak

    my goodness

    I do must get back to my low volume clients

    Kinetic

    CubeCart Captcha Sucks

    in Technical Help

    Posted

    Sir William the "human Checker" you did for my clients dealer locator was a much better use of captcha, a simple captcha thats hard for

    bots and only makes the human do it once per session or even via a cookie

    is cool.

    With CubeCarts new 4.3 using reCaptcha which allows for visually impaired users to have an audio cue and helps reCaptchas project in scanning in old hard to read text and (each captcha solved helps them sort out what the badly damaged or smeared text is as alot of the documents reCaptcha scans are very old and sometimes very hard to read scanners can only be taught to "guess" so well and humans can do it much easier with greater accuracy).

    Ive also found reCaptcha's puzzles to be somewhat loose which is good if it is really hard to make it out on the second word it will accept a broader range of right answers

    and includes as with any good captcha, a way to refresh and get a new puzzle.

    I will agree that CAPTCHA should be there but it should be case insensitive. In these days when so many people don't even seem to know the shift key exists for letters, you have to expect them to not use it. Pathetic to me, but it's true.

    I did a custom dealer lookup feature for Kinetic where we used CAPTCHA but only on the first submission. On future searches within the same search session it's not required. I did it with a simple POST var, but could have set a cookie for it as well. I think once a person validates themselves as human, they shouldn't have to keep proving it during their session.

    But that's just my two cents.

    :innocent:

    CubeCart Captcha Sucks

    in Technical Help

    Posted

    Open /includes/content/reg.inc.php

    FIND:

    $spamCode = fetchSpamCode($_POST['ESC'], true);
    

REPLACE WITH:



    // $spamCode = fetchSpamCode($_POST['ESC'], true);
    



FIND:



    } elseif($config['floodControl']==true && (!isset($_POST['spamcode']) || ($spamCode['SpamCode']!==strtoupper($_POST['spamcode'])) || (get_ip_address()!==$spamCode['userIp']))) {

		$errorMsg = $lang['reg']['error_code'];
    



REPLACE WITH:



    /*} elseif($config['floodControl']==true && (!isset($_POST['spamcode']) || ($spamCode['SpamCode']!==strtoupper($_POST['spamcode'])) || (get_ip_address()!==$spamCode['userIp']))) {

		$errorMsg = $lang['reg']['error_code'];*/
    



FIND:



    if($config['floodControl']==1)

	{

			

		$spamCode = strtoupper(randomPass(5));

		$ESC = createSpamCode($spamCode);

		

		$imgSpambot = imgSpambot($ESC);

		

		$reg->assign("VAL_ESC",$ESC);

		$reg->assign("TXT_SPAMBOT",$lang['reg']['spambot']);

		$reg->assign("IMG_SPAMBOT",$imgSpambot);

		$reg->parse("reg.spambot");

	}
    



REAPLCE WITH:



    /*if($config['floodControl']==1)

	{

			

		$spamCode = strtoupper(randomPass(5));

		$ESC = createSpamCode($spamCode);

		

		$imgSpambot = imgSpambot($ESC);

		

		$reg->assign("VAL_ESC",$ESC);

		$reg->assign("TXT_SPAMBOT",$lang['reg']['spambot']);

		$reg->assign("IMG_SPAMBOT",$imgSpambot);

		$reg->parse("reg.spambot");

	}*/
    

Save, CLose , reUpload /includes/content/reg.inc.php



You can also remove or comment out the spambot section in your /skins/YOUR SKIN/styleTemplates/content/reg.tpl

the section starting with:



    <!-- BEGIN: spambot -->
    

and closes with



    <!-- END: spambot -->

    not bad for a twit...

    CubeCart Captcha Sucks

    in Technical Help

    Posted

    Im a twit?

    at least i know how to remove the captcha from the reg.tpl and reg.inc.php so that theres no captcha for registration

    if that makes me a twit then At least im a smarter twit than you

    and you evidently didnt read what I wrote or what anyone else wrote

    and Ill say it a again not one of my many clients has ever stated the captcha on the reg forms was inhibiting sales or signups and I have a client who has done nearly half a million in sales in 3 years... with captcha on

    and yes I know turning it off in admin turns it off everywhere...

    but at least Id look to commenting it out and disabling it in the files responsible for it in the place you dont want it BEFORE I went on a forum and started whining....

    open up some files and start reading code...

    Kinetic :(

    How do gift certificates work/show up in admin on orders?

    in Technical Help

    Posted

    Pending orders occurs for a few reasons

    1) They select print order form and you will know if its a valid print order form by looking at the order and looking to the gateway Used

    Print order form orders need for you to WAIT to do ANYTHING with the order until you recieve a check or money order

    2) They used a different gateway (Again check the gateway used in the order) and had troubles and the gateway didnt report back (paypal ipn)

    3) they got thru most of the check out process but didnt actually submit payment of any kind or abandoned their cart (this is the number one cause for pending orders

    orders are ALL pending till they have been updated by the gateway an order has to to be added to the DB and set to pending in order for the gateway to let you know (and set to processing) if their payment was successful if the customer abandons the cart before this is done you get a pending order

    if they never even selected a gateway you get a pending order

    some people say why not stop the adding of the order as soon as cubecart does it?

    again so the gateway has something to update (fail or success) when the customer does try to

    pay

    ALL store owners should double check ANY and ALL payments thru all gateways they are using before fulfilling an order and shipping it out or giving the download away...

    do not skip this STEP!!!

    If your checking has determined that you are either waiting on a check or money order or that they might have had trouble

    by all means use the order section and notes to customer to ask:

    "We see that you tried to make a purchase at our lovely store but did not complete it. Would like us to cancel it or do you need assistance with this purchase?"

    Pending orders processing orders Check for actual payment at the gateway provider

    Pending orders check what gateway was used if print order form wait a while to see if the check or money order comes in

    Hope this helps ;)

    Add new order status

    in Technical Help

    Posted

    for v4.3 (which you failed to state but Im assuming at least v4 from the forum you posted in)

    open

    language/en/orders.inc.php

    you will see an array of order status and order status descriptions

    you can or edit these

    making sure if you add or delete any that you have a number in order at the end for both order state and order state description

    currently its 1 - 6 for each

    Hope this helps

    Kinetic ;)

    Cube Cart question

    in Technical Help

    Posted

    Yes

    See the cubecartforums.org about bulk import or bulk product mods

    as with an affiliate or vendor you can usually get a csv or comma separated value data file you can use with some judicious

    modification and prep it for use witih cubeCart

    removing columns supplied by the affiliate feed or adding neccessary cubecart columns

    and injecting it with a single click into the store

    and if the affiliate supplies you with a feed that contains the URLs to the product photos

    a bulk import mod would be able to grab those as well and save them to your stores images/uploads folder and generate thumbs.

    hope this helps you find what you need

    Kinetic

    4.3.0. To upgrade or not to upgrade?

    in Install & Upgrade Support

    Posted

    Funny I had NO problem upgrading one of my clients from v3.0.12 to 4.3

    not manually

    but using the upgrade instructions

    we did have to re install v4 versions of any of the many mods he had on his store but thats to be expected

    no errors no problems and didnt lose a single byte of data

    upgrading is neccessary

    doing it right and with Proper BACKUPs is mandatory

    following it step by step and NOT being in a hurry are highly recommended....

    Getting someone who KNOWs what they are doing to do it for you ABSOLUTELY the best option

    I'm looking at installing Cubecart

    in Install & Upgrade Support

    Posted

    Hi my website is Soundproofing Forum I'm currently trying out zencart but am having trouble getting it working. What are the advantages of Cubecart and is it going to be easier to setup?

    Well ya wouldnt have to use junky old frames

    and if ya start with someone who knows cubecart and can design a custom skin for you and teach ya about using Cubecart

    you wont ever regret leaving Crappy zen cart in the dust

    Even if you didnt do it properly and get professional help to launch your e-commerce (you would be insane not to)

    e-commerce isnt for the weak the timid or the broke...

    If you are a smart person cubecart makes it easy on ya and is well thought out, easy to mod, easy to skin (uses Xtemplate system)

    and there are tons od add ons and and lots of help here inthe forums as well as good FAQs and knowledgeable helpful foplks who own stores and or do stores for clients (Like me)

    In either case no matter which way you go CubeCart over Zen Cart? CubeCart wins hands down

    Kinetic ;)

    Warnings and more warnings *sigh*

    in Technical Help

    Posted

    Id look in any of the files mentioned in the warnings for blank lines at the beginning or end of the file or any you have edited

    php files should start and END with <?php (start) or ?> (end)

    a blank line will be parsed so you get the headers already sent errors

    remove any blank line at the begining so it starts witht he <?php

    or remove any blank lines from the end so the file ends with ?>

    Kinetic ;)

    Id look in any of the files mentioned in the warnings for blank lines at the beginning or end of the file or any you have edited

    php files should start and END with <?php (start) or ?> (end)

    a blank line will be parsed so you get the headers already sent errors

    remove any blank line at the begining so it starts with the <?php

    or remove any blank lines from the end so the file ends with ?>

    Kinetic :sourcerer:

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