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Any way to show the OUT OF STOCK message on the product_info page with STS? I don't see a tag that will display this info. Would be handy to have something like $stock or something like that. Any ideas.

Cool. Been looking for this answer! Now, how do I have a strikethrough the regular price if there is a sale price? Thanks! Mark

Any ideas how to get the Featured Products infobox to sort? Featured Products v 1.5.5 Right now it just shows anything listed as a Featured Product in random order. Do a refresh and it resorts again to a new random order. I want the most recent Featured Products to show up at the top and the older Featured Products to be at the bottom. Any ideas? Thanks! Mark Bianchi Dayton, OH

Any suggestions? Thanks! Mark

Hi all. I have been a fan of the menuBar 0.2 mod for a while now. I think I like it best because it is based on a very simple HV javascript that I have successfully used on other non-Oscom web sites. I am now developing an Oscommerce site that has very long sub-category names. MenuBar 0.2 has hard-coded the width of the sub-category menu to be the same as BOX_WIDTH in application_top.php. That is fine for the regular category menu, but I need to define a larger width for the sub-category menu. Any suggestions? Here's the link to the contrib that I am working with: http://www.oscommerce.com/community/contri.../search,menubar Thanks! Mark

I tried to add this but when I go to my homepage I now get: Parse error: parse error, unexpected T_STRING, expecting ',' or ';' in /home/asiancul/public_html/includes/sts_user_code.php on line 42 What could it be? Here is line 42: echo ' cmDraw('mainmenu', menuID, 'vbr', cmThemeIE, 'themeie');' . "n"; Thanks! Mark

Hi. Yeah, in setup.php make sure it says: $setup_DEMO = false; You'll find that on line 122. Good luck! Mark

I get this message when I try to create a new album: yappa-ng is running in DEMO-MODE! How do I turn Demo-Mode off? Thanks! Mark Bianchi Dayton, Ohio

Hey all. Has anyone here been able to transfer the product title through SkipJack to your merchant account? It sure would be cool to match up the product title between the merchant account and OSCommerce. Thanks! Mark Bianchi Dayton, OH

For those of you that are using EMS (Electronic Merchant Systems) in conjunction with SkipJack, here is the replacement code: from: $this->form_action_url = 'https://developer.skipjackic.com/scripts/EvolvCC.dll?Authorize'; to $this->form_action_url = 'https://www.emsecommerce.com/scripts/EMSCC.dll?Authorize'; for live mode stores

Hey Talon. Thanks! Your example was quite helpful! I put the code into products_new.php and it did the trick. Here is all I added to the following line: p.products_listing_status = '1' (see below) $products_new_query_raw = "select p.products_id, pd.products_name, p.products_image, p.products_price, p.products_tax_class_id, p.products_date_added, m.manufacturers_name from " . TABLE_PRODUCTS . " p left join " . TABLE_MANUFACTURERS . " m on (p.manufacturers_id = m.manufacturers_id), " . TABLE_PRODUCTS_DESCRIPTION . " pd where p.products_status = '1' and p.products_listing_status = '1' and p.products_id = pd.products_id and pd.language_id = '" . (int)$languages_id . "' order by p.products_date_added DESC, pd.products_name"; Thanks for your help! Mark Bianchi Dayton, Ohio

Thanks for that. I am still in the learning phase of PHP and MySQL. Could you show me an example of what that would look like in products_new.php? Thanks for the edumacation! Mark

I understand that Master Products can prevent a Master from appearing in What's New, Categories, All Products, etc. But how do I keep Slave products from showing up in these places. In other words, I only want my Master to show up. Any way of doing that? Thanks! Mark Bianchi Dayton, OH

Well, after spending hours getting the PayPal module to work (and it works very well) my client has decided that he wants to change from accepting PayPal payments to a bonafide credit card payment gateway. Unfortunately, he did not check with me to ensure that OsCommerce had a module for his new deal. (The company is called EMS, or Electronic Merchant Systems, by the way. Visit http://www.emsecommerce.net.) Here is my question: How do others here create a module for a new gateway? Do you just take an exisiting module, such as PSIgate or Authorize.net, and modify it to work with your new gateway? Any suggestions and/or help would be greatly appreciated. And don't worry, I will admonish my client severly for not checking with his web geek first! :-) Mark Bianchi Dayton, Ohio

I think I just stumbled on something that may help some people with IPN. Forgive me if this has already been addressed, but I didn't find it anywhere here when I was looking for a solution to my problem. I had the annnoying "Pending Paypal Notification" issue. The order was going through, because Paypal was collecting the funds. I just never got the "completed" message back from Paypal IPN. As it turns out, it seems that the primary and business e-mail address settings in the admin screen, modules/payment/paypal are CASE SENSITIVE. My customer liked to put his e-mail address as a series of upper case/lower case like [email protected]. This is how his primary e-mail address was set at Paypal. I put his e-mail address in all lower case in the settings for this modification. Once I changed the mixed case to match his address at PayPal, voila! No more "Pending Paypal Notification" issues. I hope this helps somebody, cause it sure drove me crazy! Thanks for the contribution, Greg! Mark Bianchi Dayton, OH

Does anyone know if STS works well with Master Products and Paypal IPN mods? I have all three installed and everyone but STS is working fine. The template shows up but none of the content shows. Just curious if anyone has had success using all three., Thanks! Mark Bianchi Dayton, OH

HI Phil. Could you enlighten the rest of us as to how you got your template to show? I am having the same problem. Thanks. Mark

Doh! Nevermind. This is a brand new cart that I put together and I had an errror in the cookie settings in the config.php file. I have a separate secure server from my catalog server and I was not pointing the the secure server for my secure cookies. Will getcha everytime! :rolleyes: Mark

Doh! Nevermind. This is a brand new cart that I put together and I had an errror in the cookie settings in the config.php file. I have a separate secure server from my catalog server and I was not pointing the the secure server for my secure cookies. Will getcha everytime! :rolleyes: Mark

Also, once I login, it says my shopping cart is empty. Vicious cycle! Thanks for any help. Mark

One other issue: Using Master Products, I order one of my slave products. I am already logged in as a customer. I place an item in the cart and click on the CHECKOUT button. I am then directed back to the login.php page. The system somewhere lost track of the fact that I was already logged in. Any idea why this might be? Thanks! Mark Bianchi Dayton, OH

First of all, thanks for this great contribution! Secondly, I am having an issue and I would appreciate any assitance. I have installed PayPal IPN 2.2. Everything seems to be working OK with the exception of one thing. I am already logged in as a customer. I place an item in the cart and click on the CHECKOUT button. I am then directed back to the login.php page. The system somewhere lost track of the fact that I was already logged in. Any idea why this might be? Thanks! Mark Dayton, OH.

That did the trick. Genius! Thanks, Matt! Mark

I have been searching high and low for an answer to this question. How do I limit the selection in the drop down box for quantity to purchase on a slave product? Currently, I have 250 tickets to a particular event. I want to limit one ticket per purchase, so the drop down should only allow for '0' and '1'. Currently, the slave product will allow for 0 to 20 to be purchased. Any idea where I would change that in the code? I would image it is in the product_info.php. Thanks! Mark Bianchi Dayon, OH

Thanks for the speedy reply, Brian. I think I am closer to understanding how this works. You said that I don't have to do anything to the original PHP scripts, but what if the page I am creating is not one of the originals? My example: aboutus.php is not an original file for OsCommerce. Do I then just copy one of the other files and rename it? (Ie: index.php to aboutus.php?) Thanks for all your help! Mark