jeni j

Because I have absolutely no knowledge of PHP and this is my first experience with cart software, I have used a PHP person to install QTPro. We've run into problems and I'm wondering whether anyone can come up with an instant fix! rather than go down the line of a barebones install. I also apologise for the length of this post My web host offers an install of oscommerce (osCommerce 2.2 Milestone 2) and it comes with the following contributions preinstalled: Static Page Editor -CSS Editor -Camtech Payment Module with Reporting -Urchin Reporting Contributions -AusPost Shipping -Direct Deposit -Australian PayPal -Easy Populate -WYSIWYG Editor -Column Controller -Featured Sets -Center Shop -Website Maintenance Here are the comments made by my PHP guy... "I have installed v4.3 (latest version available), and also attempted 4.2 (according to other forum users that have found success with this version). The two main problems I have found are as follows: - Customer side: A global declaration is not found on some of the information pages (such as privacy_policy.php, shipping_terms.php and mainpage.php). All these pages do is retrieve some text from the database such as the 'Welcome to the Spoilt.biz store...'. However, there is a line in the code: '$mainpage = $db->get_row($iQuery)' that causes a connection fault that I cannot trace. The fault that comes up is a result of either a incorrect SQL connection string or an undeclared global variable. It's not a SQL connection problem as the pages still retrieve all the product info (images and attributes), so it leads me to believe its an undeclared variable. However I have searched everywhere and can't seem to locate where it should be. - Admin Side: This all works well right up to the point where you modify the stock numbers, whereby it cannot find the product_attribute table. I have traced the product_info.php page through its entirety and I cannot see why it can't find this table when it can find the product_info table. Basically I can only deduce that it is down to conflicts with one of the shipping and payment modules allready installed into the site. As per the install documentation, it does state that other contributions are likley to cause conflicts, and as a result, recommends the use of a comparison program to find any conflicts within the contribution modules. I'm not sure where you want to go from here, as we can go down this path, otherwise if you want, you could revert to a bare bones install of the OsCommerce cart (without any other modules installed), install the QTPRo package and see if that works first, then install the other shipping and payment modules one by one to see which one is causing the conflict." ........... Before we move onto the barebones option, is there anything blatantly obvious that anyone can see from the above? Thank you for any assistance you may be able to offer.