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  Top OSC Contributions
  
  1.Easy Populate - OSC is useless without it
  
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  2.SEO URLS - Awesome
  
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  3.KissMT - Has some weaknesses, you cant specify your own tags for example but it is super easy to install
  or 3.Header Tags - Big deal to install, can customise the tags.
  
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  4. Ask a product question
  
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  5. Order Editor
  
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  6. CSS Product Listing http://forums.oscommerce.com/topic/352919-convert-product-listings-to-table-less-css/
  
  1) add the following code (new class definition) to includes/classes/boxes.php before the final ?>
  
  ///// BOF CSSTABLEBOX //////
  class csstableBox {
  
  // class constructor
  function csstableBox($contents, $direct_output = false) {
  
  for ($i=0, $n=sizeof($contents); $i<$n; $i++) {
  if (isset($contents[$i]['form']) && tep_not_null($contents[$i]['form'])) $csstableBox_string .= $contents[$i]['form'] . "\n";
  $csstableBox_string .= ' <div class="cssproduct_listing_item" >' . "\n";
  
  if (isset($contents[$i][0]) && is_array($contents[$i][0])) {
  for ($x=0, $n2=sizeof($contents[$i]); $x<$n2; $x++) {
  if (isset($contents[$i][$x]['text']) && tep_not_null($contents[$i][$x]['text'])) {
  $csstableBox_string .= ' <div class="cssproduct_listing_content">';
  if (isset($contents[$i][$x]['form']) && tep_not_null($contents[$i][$x]['form'])) $csstableBox_string .= $contents[$i][$x]['form'];
  $csstableBox_string .= $contents[$i][$x]['text'];
  if (isset($contents[$i][$x]['form']) && tep_not_null($contents[$i][$x]['form'])) $csstableBox_string .= '</form>';
  $csstableBox_string .= '</div>' . "\n";
  }
  }
  } else {
  $csstableBox_string .= ' <div class="cssproduct_listing_content">' . $contents[$i]['text'] . '</div>' . "\n";
  }
  
  $csstableBox_string .= ' </div>' . "\n";
  if (isset($contents[$i]['form']) && tep_not_null($contents[$i]['form'])) $csstableBox_string .= '</form>' . "\n";
  }
  
  $csstableBox_string .= '<div class="cssclear"></div>' . "\n";
  
  if ($direct_output == true) echo $csstableBox_string;
  return $csstableBox_string;
  }
  }
  
  class cssproductListingBox extends csstableBox {
  function cssproductListingBox($contents) {
  $this->csstableBox($contents, true);
  }
  }
  
  ////// EOF CSSTABLEBOX //////
  
  
  2) add the following to includes/stylesheet.css
  
  .cssproduct_listing_content{
  border: 1px dotted #bbc3d3;
  border-width: 0px 0px 0px 0px;
  width: 140px;
  padding: 2px 0px 2px 0px;
  margin: 0px 0px 0px 0px;
  }
  
  .cssproduct_listing_item{
  float: left;
  width: 155px;
  height: 165px;
  border: 1px solid #bbc3d3;
  border-width: 1px 1px 1px 1px;
  font-family: Verdana, Arial, sans-serif;
  font-size: 10px;
  text-align: center;
  padding: 5px 0px 5px 5px;
  margin: 5px 5px 5px 5px;
  }
  
  .cssclear{clear: both;}
  
  3) In includes/modules/product_listing.php:
  about line 68 comment out the following.
  ie change:
  
  $list_box_contents[0][] = array('align' => $lc_align,
  'params' => 'class="productListing-heading"',
  'text' => ' ' . $lc_text . ' ');
  
  to:
  // $list_box_contents[0][] = array('align' => $lc_align,
  // 'params' => 'class="productListing-heading"',
  // 'text' => ' ' . $lc_text . ' ');
  
  
  and change:
  
  new productListingBox($list_box_contents);
  to:
  
  // new productListingBox($list_box_contents);
  new cssproductListingBox($list_box_contents);
  
  That's it.
  
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  7. To speed up the site search
  
  I finally figured out what was bogging down my database when searching for products. I had to post this. I have about 220,000 active products in my store seekshopping.com... parse time is at the bottom if anyone wants to checkout the performance.
  
  I have optimized so many queries and continue to monitor and do so. Whe I started, my search queries were about 20-40 seconds... that's a life time on the net. Including all the variables in the search url with help decrease query speed by about 50%...
  
  keywords=wars&search_in_description=1&categories_id=&inc_subcat=1&medium=&pfrom=&pto=&dfrom=&dto=
  
  Now I'm down to about 11 or 12 seconds for a search which is still not good enough. 6 seconds should be the maximum. Just remove products_model from the search string. Here is the code to change in advanced_search_result.php...
  
  Comment this out:
  //$where_str .= "(pd.products_name like '%" . tep_db_input($keyword) . "%' or p.products_model like '%" . tep_db_input($keyword) . "%'";
  
  Simply change to this:
  $where_str .= "(pd.products_name like '%" . tep_db_input($keyword) . "%'";
  
  
  I hope this helps someone out. My queries are running under half a second and my search page parses in about 2 seconds. That's a 1500% imporvement.
  
  check it out at http://www.seekshopping.com/catalog/
  
  http://forums.oscommerce.com/topic/383574-simplified-search-any-contribution-available/
  
  
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  8. To ramp up site speed
  
  2- Run this query in your db
  
  ALTER TABLE `products_to_categories` DROP PRIMARY KEY;
  ALTER TABLE `products_to_categories` ADD INDEX `idx_p2c_categories_id` ( `categories_id` );
  ALTER TABLE `products_to_categories` ADD INDEX `idx_p2c_products_id` ( `products_id` );
  
  
  Thanks
  
  http://forums.oscommerce.com/topic/360813-a-big-problem-slow-20-30-sec/
  
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  MISC
  
  Open graph protocol
  
  <meta property="og:title" content="<?php echo $product_info['products_name']; ?>" />
  <meta property="og:type" content="product" />
  <meta property="og:url" content="<?php echo 'http://' . $_SERVER['HTTP_HOST'] . $_SERVER['REQUEST_URI'] ;?>" >
  <meta property="og:image" content="<?php print 'http://' . $_SERVER['SERVER_NAME'] . DIR_WS_HTTP_CATALOG . DIR_WS_IMAGES . $product_info['products_image']; ?>" />
  <meta property="og:site_name" content="<?php echo STORE_NAME;?>" />
  <meta property="fb:admins" content="YOUR_ADMIN_KEY_GOES_HERE" />
  <meta property="og:description" content="<?php echo preg_replace('/[^a-zA-Z0-9\s]/','',preg_replace('/\s+/',' ',preg_replace("/
  /", "",strip_tags($product_info['products_description'])))); ?>" />
  
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