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tobybailey

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  1. Further testing: I totally agree with goring_gap with our 2.2 RC2a. Currently the cart resets at checkout conformation (as usual) - but that is before the added paypal payment page. If (for instance) the customer finds that their billing address does not match the credit card then they are directed to return to the delivery page - but their cart is empty so they would have to start shopping all over again. (Or more likely go instead to a site that works sensibly.) This seriously needs updating so that at the least the cart is not emptied until a complete purchase has definitely occurred. Is this rteally how Paypal imagine this should work?
  2. Just trying to get this to work on our (modified in various ways) 2.2 RC2a. (1) First problem: the replacement orders.php simply does not work as supplied in our 2.2. The error is calls to tep_hide_session_id which in our set-up at least is not in the html_output functions for admin, only for catalog. Fixed by adding that function to admin. (2) Now struggling to discover all the bits of info needed to set up the module. Is there a guide somewhere? (3) Another oddity: trying the checkout with module not configured I get forwarded to checkout.php with params that look like .......checkout.php?error=true?osCsid=95ahrhqa91qphbddgsgk98jcg5 which is a syntax error. Presumably ythis should not happen? (4) I wonder slightly about the structure of orders.php. Currently there is a possible error message "The order cannot be completed: please contact the merchant" - but this is triggered ony be PROJECT_VERSION not being 2.2 or 2.3 and NOT by the "error=true" param. Possibly this is what is intended, but it seems odd.
  3. *Many* thanks for that. It was occurring to me as I went to sleep last night that the seo contrib was almost surely anyway not timing anything from before the database link was established and that I would need to do something like you suggested. Your code though will save me a fair amount of time for which I am grateful. I must try out your updated Ultimate SEO 5 - it sems you have dome some great work updating the 2.1d I am using. But I need to sort out the cause of these intermittent slow page loads first. Toby
  4. I have a problem with intermittent very slow serving of pages. With profile=on in Ultimate SEO's TOTAL_TIME seems to say though that the slow pages (when they occur) are generated just as fast as normal pages. Does anybody know whether the reported TOTAL_TIME is a reliable measure of the time it takes to serve the page, including perhaps the time taken by Ultimate SEO itself? Grateful for any advice. Thanks, Toby
  5. Robert, Thanks for your interest. "... still in dev" is indeed off. But I realised that I turned that off a bit after installing SEO, so I have just cleared the SEO cache hoping that might cure the problem. The site's actual name is mcadirect. But I really can't see where that anomolous link is coming from. Although Webmaster Tools throws it up as a broken link, if you actually look through all the link data on webmaster tools there is no sign there that the nonexistent URLs are linked to either internally or externally. It's annoying that webmaster tools lists unreachable pages without giving any clue of why it thinks the given page should exist (e.g. specifying what other page contains a link to it). As I said, I'd be grateful for any ideas. Toby PS using SEO URL's seems to be an art form in itself. I have read some of the huge thread without finding much that helps. I note for instance that Ultimate SEO does not rewrite the "what's new" pages. Perhaps they should be forbidden by robots.txt, given that they are continually changing. I suppose though that the same applies to departments pages too. Ideally google would read them but link only to actual product pages. Perhaps I just need to read more about this!
  6. I installed Ultimate SEO URLs 2.1d plus verification a couple of weeks ago. Everything looks fine. But now I seem to be accumulating broken links according to Google webmaster tools. The links Google thinks are broken are things like http://www.myshop.com/shop/2243?page=2 These are not links that even look like any valid link in oscommerce before or after installing these modifications. Does anybody have any idea about this? Are these links appearing somewhere on the site that I haven't discovered or are they phantoms appearing to the googlebot for some reason? I'd be grateful for any ideas! Toby
  7. I installed Ultimate SEO URLs 2.1d plus verification a couple of weeks ago. Everything looks fine. But now I seem to be accumulating broken links according to Google webmaster tools. The links Google thinks are broken are things like http://www.myshop.com/shop/2243?page=2 These are not links that even look like any valid link in oscommerce before or after installing these modifications. Does anybody have any idea about this? Are these links appearing somewhere on the site that I haven't discovered or are they phantoms appearing to the googlebot for some reason? I'd be grateful for any ideas! Toby
  8. I have installed Batch Print Center to print mailing labels. I have a solution to the "missing first label on each page" problem. It is caused by batchprint.php pulling an order from the array for the page and then calling the label.php template which then pulls an order from the array for each label on that page. So the one originally pulled for the page by batchprint.php goes missing. I have a hack that solves this but do not intend to post it in its current state because it is very hacky and may well interfere with the behaviour of other templates. I'm happy to email the files to people on request. There is a bug in the original too which can lead to a lot of labels not being printed and lots of blank pages appearing in the pdf. This is particularly noticable (and possibly only occurs) if you have only one column of labels per page. It is due to a bug in the code dealing with starting positions in the labels template. My hurried solution is to remove the offending code and always have printing starting at the top-left label. (Actually, my label sheets have two columns of labels but I want to have two labels with each address - one for the package and one for the "post book" records - so I treat a row of 2 labels as a single label and write the address on it twice. Again, if anybody wants a copy of my scrappy code, they have only to ask.) Toby
  9. I just logged on to find an answer to this question myself. Let me know if you solve it and I will do likewise. Thanks Toby
  10. This thread seems to have gone dead. Is this module in fact working with the latest osCOmmerce (2.2 Milestone 2)? I have "Switch 1.5" according to the zip file. It seems to install fine by copying the provided files to replace those in the defauil osCommerce (except the two configure.php files that I updated manually with just the two added lines at the end). I have run the cvv+issue.sql succesfully. I now have two errors: (A) when a customer checks out at the end I get the error 1054 - Unknown column 'comments' in 'field list' (full text below) that seems to come from a missing comments field in the orders database. (I seem to recall "comments" as being an option in CC module default so why is the database field not there now?) (B) If I try to view "orders" in the admin package I get Fatal error: Call to undefined function: tep_array_merge() in C:\xampp\htdocs\catalog\admin\orders.php on line 385 Does anybody have this module working (and accepting UK switch cards)? Also, is there a version that more clearly accepts switch, by asking for "Credit/Debit card number" for example? Would be grateful to hear from anybody running this succesfully. ********* Full text of comments problem error ** insert into orders (customers_id, customers_name, customers_company, customers_street_address, customers_suburb, customers_city, customers_postcode, customers_state, customers_country, customers_telephone, customers_email_address, customers_address_format_id, delivery_name, delivery_company, delivery_street_address, delivery_suburb, delivery_city, delivery_postcode, delivery_state, delivery_country, delivery_address_format_id, billing_name, billing_company, billing_street_address, billing_suburb, billing_city, billing_postcode, billing_state, billing_country, billing_address_format_id, payment_method, cc_type, cc_owner, cc_number, cc_expires, cc_start, cc_cvv, cc_issue, date_purchased, orders_status, comments, currency, currency_value) values ('2', 'toby bailey', '', '5a sbc', '', 'edin', 'hhhjjj', 'hhh', 'United Kingdom', '033344444', '[email protected]', '1', 'toby bailey', '', '5a sbc', '', 'edin', 'hhhjjj', 'hhh', 'United Kingdom', '1', 'toby bailey', '', '5a sbc', '', 'edin', 'hhhjjj', 'hhh', 'United Kingdom', '1', 'Credit Card', 'Switch', 'toby bailey', '675940478630139475', '1204', '0100', '', '1', now(), '1', '', 'GBP', '1.00000000') [TEP STOP]
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