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Make sure that: 1. You send a session id to HSBC. "Force Cookie Use" should be turned off if you use HSBC. 2. When tesing make sure that the total purchase price, including postage, is less than 50 pence. 3. If your site uses a template it's likely that the session id may get lost before checkout_confirmation, so do a "View Source" to make sure the session id is present 4. If your server is based outside of the UK then the server time zone will be wrong, and the code need to be adjusted for it. One hour, plus or minus GMT is all that HSBC will accept. Vger

The RC versions of osCommerce are Register Globals and Register Long Arrays 'off' compatible, due to a compatibility layer fix. PHP 6 will also have Magic Quotes 'off' and I'm not sure yet how that will affect the RC versions of osCommerce. MySQL 6 is already released. Vger

osCommerce MS3, Alpha 4, is not a production release and it certainly does not include a Gift Voucher capability. MS2 can have those abilities added to it, but it is very old now and showing its age. As to whether there will be an Alpha 5 and 6 - your guess is as good as anyones. Vger

That's correct. All new customers are assigned to the Retail Group by default, but they can make an application to become a wholesaler when creating an account. You get notified of this application and you then have to approve it. If your site is wholesale only then set up a Wholesale Group and make that the default for new customer sign-ups. Vger

Add: Yanga WorldSearch to your spiders.txt file. If that doesn't work then ban the ip address by .htaccess. Vger

None of you should be using anything later than v2.1d by Yesudo. That version is perfectly stable, so I don't know why other people have been messing with it. Vger

I'm guessing that you have an old .htaccess file in the 'admin' folder of your site which was used to password protect the admin folder on the old server your site was on, and that this is what is causing the Internal Server error. Go to your web hosting control panel and use the Password Protect or Directory Protect link to apply new password protection to your 'admin' folder and it should overwrite any old .htaccess file. Vger

products_stock is not a part of osCommerce(2.2 MS2 or any of the RC versions), and it's not part of any offshoot of osCommerce that I know of. So it looks as though the version of Easy Populate you've installed is bugged. Vger

So why did you ignore the Install Guide which clearly said it is for use on osCommerce 2.2 MS2 (060817)? Vger

<?php for ($i=0, $n=sizeof($languages); $i<$n; $i++) { ?> <tr> <td class="main"><?php if ($i == 0) echo TEXT_PRODUCTS_NAME; ?></td> <td class="main"><?php echo tep_image(DIR_WS_CATALOG_LANGUAGES . $languages[$i]['directory'] . '/images/' . $languages[$i]['image'], $languages[$i]['name']) . ' ' . tep_draw_input_field('products_name[' . $languages[$i]['id'] . ']', (isset($products_name[$languages[$i]['id']]) ? stripslashes($products_name[$languages[$i]['id']]) : tep_get_products_name($pInfo->products_id, $languages[$i]['id']))); ?></td> </tr> <?php } ?> Vger

If it worked before and doesn't work now, then I think it's a 100% safe bet that you installed the add-on incorrectly and broke the website. Vger

On the Pay Pal website you'll find a list of countries they operate in (allow orders from). I think it's a fairly good guess that they don't allow orders from the US Virgin Islands. Vger

A blue border is the default colour shown when border=0 has been changed to border=1, or if that setting has been removed entirely. Vger

Yes, USPS does keep messing about with their settings, which means the osCommerce USPS module requires fairly frequent updating. Recently they've not only changed the names of some of the shipping methods but they have also added or subtracted hyphens between double-barrelled names and it was this that caused the most recent failures. Vger

In the default osCommerce there is a "Per Item" shipping module. You set a price per item and the shipping charged will be based on the number of items in the shopping basket. No need to install another module or to use workarounds for something that already xists. Vger