moezbud

Thank you for the response, Spooks. Yes, I have pretty much come to the conclusion that template monster is not the direction that I want to go. While I am confident that I could figure out STS or BTS in time, time is now of the essense for me and I really don't have the time to deal with the learning curve. I am just looking for a template site that is built upon one of these add-ons that I can get installed by a contract programmer. I can take over the long-term maintenance and tweaking of the site after that, but I just need to get my site up, running and pretty in short order. Thanks for your input!

I have installed a working version of oscommerce, but my partner wants it to be alot "prettier". I really don't have the time to install and learn STS and am at the point where I just want to pay to have it done... I've checked out templatemonseter to see what they offer and found several templates that would work. After coming back here and reading reviews on templatemonster quality, I am sufficiently scared off now. I've contacted an osCommerce programmer that I found over the internet, and he said to find templates that are based on BTS. I've been googling BTS osCommerce templates and coming up empty.... Does anyone know any good sites with good templates that are based on BTS that they could recommend? Thanks!

I have just installed this contribution and it is working quite well. However, I do have one question. If someone makes a purchase without setting up an account (i.e makes a "guest" purchase), is it possible for him to get back to the download link after he leaves the site? In my testing, I made such a purchase and left the site. I then went back to my email that was sent and clicked on the link. The link took me to the account sign-on screen. Well, since there was no accouunt, I was not able to get back to the download link. I was thinking of bypassing the sign-in page in these situations, but then anybody would be able to get to the invoices. I didn't think that that was a great option. If this is an issue that has been addressed before, I apologize. I tried to scan the forums and was not able to find a reference to it. If anyone has any suggestions or ideas, I would appreciate hearing them! Thanks! Moez

Thanks! I'll take a look.

I hope that this is not a dumb request.... but, what the heck - I have to admit to not being very bright when it comes to this... I have installed this contribution and it has already helped me quite a bit. However, right now I am trying to determine logical errors. For example, I am tring to install paypal IPN and the orders are double posting on my orders table. With this, I am trying to see exactly which module is processing a given query (i.e. is it happening in checkout_confirmation.php, orders.php, general.php, etc.). I can see that all of these queries are occuring, but I'm having difficulty zeroing in on my culprit modules. Is it possible to add a line that would show the calling module (and ideally the line) where things are happening? If so, can you give me some idea of how to do it? Thanks!

Does anyone have any ideas how the flow is supposed to work? For example, which module is supposed to initially update the orders table; which one is responsible for coming back and updating it with the new status after a sucessful paypal payment; etc....? If you have any insight into this, I would really appreciate hearing it. Thanks!

OK.... so, I've been digging around. But, it would help if I could determine what is supposed to be happening. I can see where a record gets added to the orders table when I click the "submit" button on the Payment Information screen (checkout_payment.php) and go to the checkout_confirmation.php module. That one gets assigned an order_id of 1. Then, I click on "confirm order" and get taken into Paypal - still only one record on the database. When I click on the "pay now" button in paypal, I see where checkout_process.php is writing the identical order with an order_id of 2 to the orders table. Should one of these writes to the table not be taking place? Or, should the second one be just trying to update the payment status of the first? I think I can track it if I have an idea of what it is trying to do. Thanks!

That was actually really helpful. As of my posting, I didn't even have a clue where to begin looking.... I will now dive into checkout_confirmation.php and see where I am going wrong. Thank you very much for the tip!

I have installed this contribution, but I can't quite seem to get it all figured out. When I process the initial transaction and transfer to Paypal, I can see where an order is being created in my orders list - say order #190 for .01 in "preparing [paypal ipn] status. Then, I walk through the Paypal screens and when I click on the "confirm order" button in Paypal, a new order record is generated for me - order #191 fo .01. Everything about order #191 is identical to #190 including the preparing status. If anyone has any ideas about what might be happening, or even thoughts about where I can begin looking, I would really appreciate it. I'm really pulling my hair out, and I really don't have that much more to spare! Thanks!

Unfortunately, I'm not much of a PHP programmer... so, this may be a dumb question. Is there any way to make this compatable with PHP 4.xx? Thanks!

Thanks Patrick! Those are some terrific sources. I think they'll really help a lot! Thanks again for all of your suggestions! Moez

Well, I may have been a little premature in my excitement. When I changed the charset in the <head> tag in the BASIC modules, everything worked OK. But, when I did that to the green or the stripes modules... it still did not work. Well, it worked, but only to my email accounts that are housed on my hosts server ([email protected]). So, I still have to play with it a bit to find out which bit of HTML is making the tep_mail function unhappy. I think however, I'm just going to start slowly building on to the basic modules until I can get them looking the way I like (since, they're already working). Anyway, thank you very much for your helpful advice, Patrick. I think I may just decide to be fat, dumb and happy and decide not to pursue this a whole lot more if I can get those basic modules up and running. Thanks again! Moez

OK.... Now I'm really stumped. This is the thread for http://addons.oscommerce.com/info/5825 , right? I just re-checked the contribution package and they are all charset=iso-8859 way back to the beginning. That said, when I changed it to UTF-8, everything worked like a charm.... What am I missing? Am I in the wrong place?

OK.... last update. Toss away all of the other stuff that I was saying. When I removed the following <head> line from password_forgotten.php: <head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1"></head> everything started working.... Does anyone have any ideas why that would be the case? I'm just afraid that I fixed one thing and broke something else. Thanks, Moez

OK... an interesting little bit of news. I came across the following thread: http://www.oscommerce.com/forums/index.php?sho...ic=69387&hl= In it, Jason said the following: Well, I tried his suggestion and found that that is indeed my problem. When I try to send the email to one on my own server - I get the email to go through just fine. However, to my home email address.... no good. I tried to make the change that he suggested, but it still did not cure my problem. Does his solution make sense to you? Can you think of anything else that I may be able to do along those lines that might cure my problem? Thanks, Moez

Thank you so much for getting back with me - what a handy little trick... Yes, I made sure that my settings were all set correctly (HTML, LF, etc.). I've listed below the two dumps that I got when I executed the tep_mail - once with the vanilla message, once with the ultimate HTML. The vanilla one worked fine, while the new one did not. I've gone through and looked at the strings as closely as I can and yet I cannot see any difference. Can you possibly take a look and see if anything jumps out at you? Vanilla (worked): Ultimate HTML (did not work):

I am really hoping that someone can help me, because I am absolutely pulling my hair out.... I've installed this contribution, but I am missing something.... I'm pretty certain all of the pieces are in place. Here's what happens (for example). I try a password change, I can see in the file "last_mail_from...." that the email is formatted properly and everything looks good - so, I'm guessing that that means that all of my pieces are in place. But, the email never gets shipped off. I did not make any changes to the tep_mail function as none were indicated in the instructions (prior to the most recent patch), so my function looks like this: function tep_mail($to_name, $to_email_address, $email_subject, $email_text, $from_email_name, $from_email_address) { if (SEND_EMAILS != 'true') return false;</P> <P> // Instantiate a new mail object $message = new email(array('X-Mailer: osCommerce Mailer'));</P> <P> // Build the text version $text = strip_tags($email_text); if (EMAIL_USE_HTML == 'true') { $message->add_html($email_text, $text); } else { $message->add_text($text); }</P> <P> // Send message $message->build_message(); $message->send($to_name, $to_email_address, $from_email_name, $from_email_address, $email_subject); } Through A TON of experiments, I've finally figured out that if tep_mail doesn't "like" what it receives in $email_text, it will not send the email through. For example, just to try and see what would work and what wouldn't, I just played with the vanilla osCommerce forgotten password message: //define('EMAIL_PASSWORD_REMINDER_BODY', 'A new password was requested from ' . $REMOTE_ADDR . '.' . "\n\n" . 'Your new password to \'' . STORE_NAME . '\' is:' . "\n\n" . ' %s' . "\n\n"); If I would drop of the trailing /n/n, then no message would be sent. If I would shorten the message to //define('EMAIL_PASSWORD_REMINDER_BODY', 'A new password was request' . "\n\n"); it would work, but removing one more character from the word "request", then it would no longer send one off... OK, this was all long-winded, but what I'm trying to show is that tep_mail seems to be a little particular about the actual message contents. So, I'm guessing that since I can see that I do have message contents (because of my last_mail... file), that it just must be tep_mail that is finding some error with the message and therefore not sending it off. Does anyone have any clue at all about where I can look next or have any ideas about something else that I can try? Any help would be GREATLY appreciated! Thanks, Moez

I ran a test through my live store and everything worked OK except that the paypal screen displayed my full storename in the product description. Does anyone have any ideas where I can look to resolve that? On the email invoice, it displayed the product correctly. Thanks! Moez

Wow, George! That looks like a perfect solution! Thanks a lot for getting back to me. I think that that will give me enough to play with for a little while. Thanks again! Moez

I was wondering if someone can tell me if this contribution will suit my need. I have a set of truck products that I'm trying to sell. I just want to have one ad for each of the "base" products (i.e. a hood protector). The model number of the hood protector varies by the year, make and model of the truck for which it is designed. So, I want to have the customer go into this ad and be able to click that they (for example) have a 2005 Ford F150 and have the correct model number be put in the shopping cart. A key part of this is there about 100 different kinds of years, makes and models. I don't really want to have them all displayed at one time nor do I want them in one, big drop down menu. Ideally, I'd like the customer to be able to pull down the year, which in turn would lead him to another drop down of vehicle makes, followed by anothrer drop down of vehicle models. So, in three clicks, he has chosen his part and the proper model is placed in his cart. I'm sure that this contribution probably does not handle all of what I'm looking for. But, am I on the right track with this one? Will it get me close enough so that I can add some Ajax code on (for the drop downs) and get to where I want to go? Or, do you know if there is another contribution out there that is more appropriate? Any thoughts or suggestions will be appreciated. Thanks! Moez

I am pretty new to all of this stuff.... I want to make the xsell admin add a reciprical cross sell entry to every product entered.... What I mean by that is, if I enter products B and C as cross sell items to product A, then at the same time I want to add A as a cross sell item to B and C. I'll work on making it optional later.... Anyway, I was wondering if anyone had any thoughts about where I can get started on this. I'm assuming that I need to dig in xsell.php, but I'm curious if what I want to do is feasible (from someone that is familiar with that module). Thanks for your input! Moez

Thanks! I was going nuts! The last time I tested that part, everything worked fine. Thanks again! Moez

Hmmmm.... I seem to have broken something somewhere. When I go to check out, my screen clocks for about a minute. Then, when the shipping page comes up, some of the vendors have their USPS amounts filled in, and some display that "an error occurred with the USPS display". When I click refresh, the ones that previously could not display now can, and vice versa.... or.... maybe they will all display. Then, if they do all display and I click continue, then I get the dreaded ERROR_NO_SHIPPING_SELECTED_SELECTED message (even though I made valid selections...). I currently only have my vendors set up with USPS (and all of the same flavors of USPS). Does anyone have any ideas where I might go to start looking for the problem? I'm guessing that I have a good link to USPS, because the values display about half of the time... Any suggestions that you can offer will be GREATLY appreciated! I thought that I was going to launch tomorrow!!!! sigh.... Thanks! Moez

Thanks! I was confused because there seemed to be a .htaccess file everywhere I looked. So, that one goes in the catalog directory, and the other one goes in the root.... If any of you are familiar with the htaccess protection contribution, do I just pull everything out (after modifying it for my site) of the htaccess_protection.htm file and plug it into the .htaccess file (in the catalog directory)? Sorry if I'm re-stating the same question as earlier - I just want to get this right..... Thanks again!

I'm not as "web literate" as I'd like to be.... But, I'm trying to keep all of the boogeymen at bay before I go live by installing the .htaccess protection and IP trap contributions in. Can anyone give me any guidance as to where to put the robots.txt and htaccess_protection.htm files? I've checked through the documentation and boards and couldn't find a definitive answer. Thanks! Moez