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@JcMagpie yea, cultural change is next to impossible, I always say to give the customer what they want and not what one think is right. Also, I think with any implementation, its cost should be close to 50% of the total. A lot of small businesses do not realize that putting money aside for implementation is equally important as software/infrastructure cost.

Who remember Oracle's $1million challenge and it was about taking the canned codes as it and altering your corp workflow rather than implementing expensive customizations? That's is! Customers just hv to understand that one do hv to pay to play, and one should really try making COTS software works before any customization. It is not true that with Shopify you cannot customize. You can and it just cost money. We got a general quote from them once and the cost varies--$500 to $8k to start. In the grand scheme of things $8k is cheap when you compare it to an annual F5 load balancer contract, ~$4k per month...and that's just the load balancer...coloc, aws, or whoever, it can easily be another $10 to $20 k per month... Try using SW as it is best... And I've been saying let the framework people do frameworks...devs just focus on functionalities and codes...

Yeah, I ran a few Magento stores on an AWS micro or Digital Ocean $10 instances. Yeah, you want something more powerful during the development, but once it goes production with cache configured you can run them in micro instances. In a sense it is no more difficult than any carts. But should you need to run them in a cluster, it is a whole different ball game especially in terms of costs. Also, hiring a "good" Magento engineer/developer most likely will cost more than other carts. And as much as Magento has an awesome upgrade feature, but there are a few changes between V2 and V1 that are not making it easy on V1 with lots of customized features when it comes time to upgrade. So enter Shopify...running an eCommerce site is just that, and it should not be about "builiding software"...and let's pay someone else to worry about keeping my cart running in the cloud....

Laravel to me has borrowed a lot of concepts from Rails, but for PHP instead of Ruby. I remember all the talks about Ruby on Rail back around early 2000. Since Magento 2, I found a few Magento stores had went to Shopify instead of Magento 2. It probably make better sense in terms of total cost of ownership...just my guess...

Laravel, good stuff...

You can't do it. It needs the product id unique key. Now, you can put a unique index on the column that you want to use as your permalink, and then you should be able to convert the "permalink" desc to product id "upstream" of any "product_id" requirements and use it that way...that would be the easiest hack. But if you get a lot of errors as you are creating that unique index...you would have some cleanup work to do...by then you should know what I mean "it needs an unique key..."

@milerwan Ok, I have to check my Paypal setting... IPN disabled. PDT - Website payment preference -> auto return -> on -> back to checkout_process.php URL, PDT -> on. These should be the minimum, I may have to modify checkout_process to work with PDT...

@milerwan, hey, what verion of OSC and Paypal and etc. that you are using? Mine was on BS, probably Edge, and I had to reinstall Paypal somehow. Also, it seems that I had to setup IPN and PDT on Paypal to get it to work. Did you do that? I will have to look into it some more when I have a chance to remember what I did...LMK. Thx!

CCGV, but I don't know which version is the best to start with, but you can hack the gift voucher side to generate credit for customers, once your get the module to work. The hack is simple. The gift card feature was never useful for me, sold zero gift cards anyway...I had used it for give me your email and get $10 credit in your account as well as for return/exchange and etc...

Hmm...true, clean code is important... I don't know if this banaid is better than the previous one, but they both offer a similar solution. I would really do a var_dump($text_array) or print_r($text_array) just before the foreach statement to get a stack trace of the argument. You really need to know why PHP was complaining. In fact, the foreach statement wasn't just looking for an array, and it was expecting an associative array. FWR is a smart dude, I would definitely understood why before deciding on a fix. That would be my approach...some upstream setting may just fix the warning.

Don't think MySQL cache works at this time, but u did not say much about the version of your OSC and environment. Anyway, just use file cache, I was gonna rewrite the DB cache part but had decided to wait after hearing the 2.4 release announcement at that time...

@Portman This is where you can make it happen...it was a simple module. https://github.com/clustersolutions/osc-price-display-members-only/blob/9f3970e9e8dbf8deabe2100dbb5ff69a5db5e9c4/catalog/includes/modules/bootstrap/bt_price_display.php#L67 You will need to make sure that the $customers_group_id was already registered as a session variable before this module. Modify the if conditional statement to validate $customers_group_id per your requirements.. if (tep_session_is_registered('customer_id') && tep_session_is_registered('customers_group_id') && $customers_group_id > 0 && defined(MODULE_BOOTSTRAP_PRICE_DISPLAY_STATUS) && MODULE_BOOTSTRAP_PRICE_DISPLAY_STATUS == 'True') { . . . I hope this make sense...but you need to test it to be sure. https://github.com/clustersolutions/osc-price-display-members-only/blob/9f3970e9e8dbf8deabe2100dbb5ff69a5db5e9c4/catalog/includes/modules/bootstrap/bt_price_display.php#L67 if (tep_session_is_registered('customer_id') && defined(MODULE_BOOTSTRAP_PRICE_DISPLAY_STATUS) && MODULE_BOOTSTRAP_PRICE_DISPLAY_STATUS == 'True') { if (tep_session_is_registered('customer_id') && defined(MODULE_BOOTSTRAP_PRICE_DISPLAY_STATUS) && MODULE_BOOTSTRAP_PRICE_DISPLAY_STATUS == 'True') {

Your requirements still kinda vague, it can be done, but you will need to get familiar with both modules/apps in order to integrate it. May be try to ask some more specific questions? I will have to wait until I have the time to refresh my memory on even my own codes...thx!

Ah...hello...you can't have such associative array... This is ok. $slicks = []; This append to the array.. $slicks[] = []; I would just comment out those lines and see what happens. Yeah, I took one look at the stock image gallery and went to bxslider and never looked back...

@Bobber , I hope no one minds me tell you this. @oscoMMarket had shared with me that his posts are being moderated from this point forward. So, I think be patience and if he had responded it may take a while for it to become available.