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gaverp

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  • Birthday 12/05/1952

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    Gaver Powers
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    Southeast of Disorder...
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    Carving Tikis<br />Making Signs<br />Wrapping Vehicles<br />Wrapping Boats<br />Embroidering shirts and hats
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  1. I think there's an error in your SQL shown above. You are showing: select cd.categories_name, select cd.categories_description from categories c, categories_description cd where c.categories_id = '27' and cd.categories_id = '27' and cd.language_id = '1' and it should be: select cd.categories_name, cd.categories_description from categories c, categories_description cd where c.categories_id = '27' and cd.categories_id = '27' and cd.language_id = '1' BTW - MySQL.org is giving away an SQL utility program (actually a set of them) that allows you to connect to your osCommerce MySQL database; run queries on the DB; modify tables; add; modify or delete records. It's called MySQL workbench and can be seen / downloaded here: MySQL Workbench. You can connect remotely to your store database using the utility. Did I mention it was free? With the workbench utility program you can run queries (like the one above) and test it to see where the problems are - it has some minor SQL troubleshooting help - but the user interface is where the real "help" exists. Hope this helps... Gaver SurfboardSigns.com & AuthenticEndlessSummer.com
  2. Calvin, Has anyone integrated your contribution with SEO G ? I tried searching this thread for the keyword "SEO G" and could not get past the 3 word filter restriction - so I appologize if it's previously addressed in one of the other 98 pages of this thread. I'm interested in using your contribution for a Google Base feed - but I used SEO G for my SEO URL construction. I've looked at the googlefeeder.php script and the SQL looks as though it will pull image locations from "different" directory structures - meaning it's not cast in concrete. What other significant SQL changes would be required to catch and use the HTML page names instead of the SEO Link page names the contribution was designed for? Regards,
  3. Looks like a really great contribution - I downloaded the zip file and read the coupons_manual.html file included in the package. It references users to view the included install.html file - which is not included in the 3.32 package. Any one know where to find a recent install.html file for this contribution? I tried searching this thread using "install.html" - without success. Regards,
  4. Just a heads up... I was having difficulty with the html tags being stripped from my html email messages when using FCKEditor and found a solution. In the ADMIN>FCKEDITOR>fckconfig.js file around line 35 change FCKConfig.FullPage = false ; change false to true and tags like HTML; BODY: BASE HREF etc. will stay intact. VERY cool contribution btw!
  5. Not certain if this is the recommended approach... To enable the display of the HTML email message in the mail.php?action=preview page, I modifed the following code: in Admin>mail.php Near Line 136: <tr> <td class="smallText"><b><?php echo TEXT_MESSAGE; ?></b><br> <?php echo nl2br(htmlspecialchars(stripslashes($HTTP_POST_VARS['message']))); ?></td> </tr> Changed to this: <tr> <?php $message = stripslashes($HTTP_POST_VARS['message']); ?> <td class="smallText"><b><?php echo TEXT_MESSAGE; ?></b><br> <?php echo tep_draw_fckeditor('message','750','700',$message); ?> </td> </tr> It appears to be working - still has all the FCKEditor buttons / icons though - which makes the whole process of "preview" somewhat redundant, especially since FCK has an excellent preview tool built in! Still looking for the fix for the EMAIL_FROM problem in item #2 above if anyone has an idea on how to fix that ... Regards,
  6. Update: I figured out how to prevent the HTML and BODY tags from being stripped off... In the fckconfig.js - set FCKConfig.FullPage = true ;
  7. I'm beginning to suspect there may be more wrong with my installation that previously noted. When creating an email message in the admin page I see the FCKEditor window and below it a "SEND MAIL" button. If I place html and body tags in the mail message by viewing the source and typing them in manually - when I click the "SEND MAIL" button , it takes me to the mail.php (same page) with the "preview" option set in the url. The page however is spread out over two or three times the anticipated height and the content of the HTML email is badly formed. It's as though the "preview" is not being contained in an HTML friendly container for preview purposes and instead the HTML contained in the email message is being "mixed and mashed" into the mail.php?action=preview page. At the bottom of the preview page there are three buttons... back; cancel and send mail. If I select send mail - and then view the source of the email as received - the HTML and BODY tags have been stripped out of the resulting message and replaced with a paragraph tag "<p>" It would appear that during the "preview" process the HTML is not being preserved or rendered correctly. Is there supposed to be an HTML friendly container for the FCKEditor $message variable to be displayed into during the preview process on the mail.php?action=preview page? I have done a differential comparison of the vanilla mail.php against the modified version and can not find an omission or problem that might be responsible for this anomaly. Although unrelated - I'm also unable to save templates. Clicking the Disk icon acts as though I clicked the send mail button at the bottom of the window. I have searched the FCKEditor.net website for terms relating to "save templates" and not had any luck determining how to capture the Disk Icon click event and route it to a different php page / script for saving a template. Any help resolving these issues would be greatly appreciated...
  8. I wasn't able to find a thread for this contribution either... (contribution: http://addons.oscommerce.com/info/5806) I installed the contribution and I'm using the FCK HTML editor. Works great - just one bug I'm trying to fix... The variable EMAIL_FROM in the ADMIN>mail.php file is wrong in my application - showing up as "WWW.MYDOMAINNAME.COM" <[email protected]> which is a combination of the "from" and "from_name" variables, I think it's just supposed to be <[email protected]>. Here's how the actual email header appears in the "From" field in the clients email: My Domain Name > ["My Domain Name" <[email protected]] Notice the misplaced ">" and duplicate name... <tr> <td class="main"><?php echo TEXT_FROM_EMAIL; ?></td> <td>TEST<?php echo tep_draw_input_field('from', EMAIL_FROM,'size="80"'); ?></td> </tr> I used eclipse to search for the variable by name "EMAIL_FROM" through every file and line of code and it does not appear to be defined anywhere? Anyone know where the variable "EMAIL_FROM" is picking up the combined values of "from" and "from_name"? Regards,
  9. Leslie, Could you point me to sample images of the HTML email messages with and without the row_mod_additions modification please. Or maybe send me a couple sample emails? Thank you,
  10. KISS Page Titles I know there are other more significant and robust contributions for the purpose of generating Dynamic Page Titles for their shopping carts. The method defined below only requires the modification of 3 pages and is very "simple" to implement. As of this writing - I'm not certain how Google is going to interpret the titles I'm using - I'm still awaiting their first evaluation of my sitemap.xml file and initial crawl, I will post a result after the crawl and evaluation has completed. There are many other more experienced programmers on this board that could modify the code shown below to be more efficient - hopefully one of them will pitch in - This was a quick fix for my needs and not a long term solution for osCommerce in general. Final Caveat - My shopping cart is heavily modified and 60 hours distant from the initial installation. BACKUP! before you make any changes outlined below. Some background: The default installation of the osCommerce Shopping cart uses a value set in the Admin panel under the Configuration section titled "Store Name" to set the value used in the page title of ALL pages on your site. Don't worry though - there's really only a couple of pages that need to be modified to create dynamic page titles... Load index.php in your editor. Look for this code around line 40: <title><?php echo TITLE; ?></title> The "TITLE" variable is where the name of your store is being inserted into your index.php webpage each time the page is called by a customers browser. Using the standard "TITLE" variable with a minor modification - we can have it append the name of the Store Category to the "TITLE" variable so the webpage will display the name of the store followed by the name of the Category selected by the customer (or search engine). When a customer first loads your home page, the page title (set in admin) would read "Blue Shoes". The problem is - that same "title" is used on all of your pages... What you want to see is the page title of each page change to reflect the content that is being displayed. Example... If your store name is Blue Shoes and you have three categories - Sneakers; High Heels and Sandals, if a customer clicks on the Sneakers category - the page title should read Blue Shoes Sneakers. Now.. if you have 5 different styles of sneakers available on the Sneakers Page - and the user clicks on the one titled "High Top Sneakers" the page title would change to Blue Shoes High Top Sneakers. In some cases though - you might have included the name of your store as a keyword in the name of your product like Blue Shoes High Top Sneakers... so having the original store name -followed by the product name would appear to be "spamming" the search engine with keywords - which I believe may be a bad thing to do. For example... If you included your store name in your product description (as I did on many of my products) - it would appear in the Page Title as: Blue Shoes Blue Shoes High Top Sneakers. Not to worry though another very simple modification to the code will alleviate this problem too! Here's how to make the changes required to incorporate KISS Page Titles: Time to backup! I usually save a copy as "xxxx.bak" where "xxxx" is the original file name - if I have to revert back to the original - then I just delete the new file (or rename it to xxxx.BAD and then rename the original back to xxxx.php Back up the following 3 files: catalog/index.php; catalog/product_info.php; catalog/includes/application_top.php Now you're ready to revise the code. Step 1: On the index.php page you loaded previously replace this line: <title><?php echo TITLE; ?></title> With this one: <title><?php echo TITLE . ' ' . $page_name; ?></title> This change will enable your home page to display the categories selected by the user in the page title. Step 2: Load catalog/includes/application_top.php in your editor and locate the following line of code. $breadcrumb->add($categories['categories_name'], tep_href_link(FILENAME_DEFAULT, 'cPath=' . implode('_', array_slice($cPath_array, 0, ($i+1))))); Insert the following line of code immediately BELOW the line referenced above: $page_name = $categories['categories_name']; Now, in the same page, locate the following line of code, it should be several lines below the one you just modified: $breadcrumb->add($model['products_model'],tep_href_link(FILENAME_PRODUCT_INFO, 'cPath=' .$cPath . '&products_id=' . $HTTP_GET_VARS['products_id'])); Insert the following lines of code immediately BELOW the line of code referenced above: $product_name_query = tep_db_query("select products_name from products_description where products_id = '" . (int)$HTTP_GET_VARS['products_id'] . "'"); $long_name =tep_db_fetch_array($product_name_query); $page_name = $long_name['products_name']; Step 3: Now load catalog/product_info.php into your editor and locate the following line of code: <title><?php echo TITLE; ?></title> and replace it with this line: <title><?php echo $page_name; ?></title> Note: if you DO NOT have duplicate keywords in the product name of your products, you can use the following line inplace of the one above. <title><?php echo TITLE . ' ' . $page_name; ?></title> Don't be afraid to try both styles - to see what affect it has on your page titles, and then choose the one that you believe is best suited for your Search Engine Friendly Page Titles. Now - upload your 3 modified pages - depending on which FTP program you are using - you can rename the existing UNMODIFIED files on your server with the .BAK extension, and then upload the modified (NEW) files to the server - that way if something is not right - it's a simple matter to delete the three files you just uploaded on the server and then rename the .BAK files to .php and ... you're back to the original un-modified pages. I hope others will find this modification useful in creating Search Engine Friendly Page Titles... Keeping it simple...
  11. Iofast, Based on previous messages in this thread and others regarding site security - I got interested in deleting the card numbers from my database or more to the point - preventing them from being stored in the db from the start. When I examined the content of my db - I discovered there are no credit card numbers or information of any sort (cvv or exp date) currently being stored in the db. Despite this - my application handshake with the secure.linkpt.com appears to be working correctly. I looked in the orders table for this information - which is where the other data unique to the buyer is being stored. Is there somewhere else the cc information might be stored? Is this behaviour expected or is something amiss? Regards,
  12. Is the javascript validation routine in the linkpoint_api.php fle supposed to validate the CVV 3 digit code or was it intentionaly disabled? In looking at the code vs the 3 digit field it appears there may be an omission in the javascript function below... $js = ' if (payment_value == "' . $this->code . '") {' . "\n" . // ' var cc_owner = document.checkout_payment.linkpoint_api_cc_owner.value;' . "\n" . ' var cc_number = document.checkout_payment.linkpoint_api_cc_number.value;' . "\n" . // ' if (cc_owner == "" || cc_owner.length < ' . CC_OWNER_MIN_LENGTH . ') {' . "\n" . // ' error_message = error_message + "' . MODULE_PAYMENT_LINKPOINT_API_TEXT_JS_CC_OWNER . '";' . "\n" . // ' error = 1;' . "\n" . // ' }' . "\n" . ' if (cc_number == "" || cc_number.length < ' . CC_NUMBER_MIN_LENGTH . ') {' . "\n" . ' error_message = error_message + "' . MODULE_PAYMENT_LINKPOINT_API_TEXT_JS_CC_NUMBER . '";' . "\n" . ' error = 1;' . "\n" . // there's also a missing right brace at this location in the original script. ' }' . "\n" . ' if (cc_number == "" || cc_number.length < 3) {' . "\n" . ' error_message = error_message + "' . MODULE_PAYMENT_LINKPOINT_API_TEXT_JS_CVV_NUMBER . '";' . "\n" . ' error = 1;' . "\n" . ' }' . "\n" . ' }' . "\n"; return $js; } We could test the value of the CVV variable with something like this? var cc_cvmnumber = document.checkout_payment.linkpoint_api_cc_cvm.value; if so.. then the bottom "if" statement would need to be modifed to read like this: if (cc_cvmnumber== "" || cc_cvmnumber.length < 3) {' . "\n" . ' error_message = error_message + "' . MODULE_PAYMENT_LINKPOINT_API_TEXT_JS_CVV_NUMBER . '";' . "\n" . ' error = 1;' . "\n" . If modified.. then the linkpoint_api.php file located in the includes>languages>english>modules>payment directory will require the addition of a line something like this also... define('MODULE_PAYMENT_LINKPOINT_API_TEXT_JS_CVV_NUMBER', 'Missing the 3 digit Card Verification Value!'); Or was this intentionaly disabled for some reason? There's also a missing right brace in the javascript - I added it to the script shown along with a comment - so you can find it in your code. Regards,
  13. Todd, I tried to upload a new set of image files to one of the directories created by AI and I"m getting errors stating permission denied. So.. I tried to chmod the values of the files and that was denied also... Is there a way for me to delete files and upload replacements for them wihout having to utilize the admin panel and delete each one idividually for each product? Sure hope so.. Regards,
  14. Sam, Is splitpage supposed to work on product_new.php and new_products.php? I've spent a few hours now trying to find and fix the split page function on that page... I've got about 30 new products and can't get the splitpage to show up on the home page with all the "New products for December". It's working fine on the category pages... G
  15. Sam, I restored MAX_DISPLAY_RESULTS as suggested, where in admin can I set the value to 9? It appears to be defauting to 5.
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