If you ever have managed some website/portal that has any meaningful traffic, you already know what can it do to your MySQL server performance if you don’t optimise your queries and enable php server side caching. One of the things that you can do at DB level is to enable mysql_query_cache to speed up DB…
Shipping cost calculation is the mandatory feature for any E-Commerce website. Shipping cost is dependent upon zones and/or countries. It largely depends upon your requirement whether you need to charge different rates for different zones inside same country. You might want to do the same for multiple countries as well with or without multiple zones…
Secure your osCommece store by installing following mods and making few changes lest it gets hacked and your hard work goes down the drain. If your osCommerce shop just got hacked, first step to get your website back is to restore it from a clean backup. And by chance you do not have a clean…
If you get this following error after installing your osCommerce store: Server Requirement Error: register_globals is disabled in your PHP configuration. This can be enabled in your php.ini configuration file or in the .htaccess file in your catalog directory. There are two ways to enable register_globals using .htaccess file or using php.ini file. Enabling register_globals…
SimplePie is a very fast and easy-to-use PHP class that has made web developers lives very easy as far as RSS and Atom feeds parsing is concerned. Not just parsing, but SimplePie can also merge different RSS feeds very efficiently to put it on your web page. In addition to merging and sorting multiple feeds…
While setting up Westpac – Payway Net osCommerce module on a new online store, I encountered following error while testing it: Notice: Error getting token: java.lang.SecurityException: Invalid IP address in /home/user/public_html/includes/functions/payway_utility.php on line 271 Warning: Cannot modify header information – headers already sent by (output started at /home/user/public_html/includes/functions/payway_utility.php:271) in /home/user/public_html/includes/functions/general.php on line 33 First of…
Although we use RSS feeds or XML feeds for content syndication or better yet a Web Service, there will be times when you will be required to syndicate or read simple text blocks for your own consumption on another website or for your friend’s. You do want to cache the contents locally to avoid fetching…
While exporting for .csv, text data should be checked for any linebreaks / new line characters otherwise it will make a fine mess of your .csv exported file. Apart from checking for usual ‘,’ which will make a new coulmn, you need to check for carriage returns and new line characters and clean the input…
So you just completed setting up osCommerce store, and while testing and creating the new account as customer, your client just does not want the unending countries list in the dropdown select field, and more often than not, most clients are only focusing on one country anyway, you can accomplish this in two ways. First…
Before you go live with your osCommerce store, make sure your checkout process page are secure and opening over SSL protocol (https://). Of course you need to have SSL certficate installed on your domain. Before you attempt this, open your store domain over SSL https://www.yourstore.com/ and if it opens fine without any browser warning, your…
If you keep getting following error on osCommerce Checkout > Shipping Method page (for any or all post methods on the AusPOST module parcel, express): ERROR: We apologise, we are unable to obtain a valid quote from the Australia Post Server. If you would like to use this option as your shipping method, please contact…
Sometimes osCommerce store’s default search feature finds no product and search repeatedly returned ‘There is no product that matches the search criteria.’ even though you know products are there. And I had searched the exact name of product which was there and search could not even fetch that! It took me an hour or so,…
If you ever faced a scenario where you had to parse the rss feed with image thumbnails placed inside “enclosure” tags, SimplePie is the perfect solution. In fact SimplePie can parse mediaRSS. There are several other php classes such as Magpie which can do the job as well. Magpie can parse rss2.0 enclosure but not…
If you want a radio button selection to show certain Div contents and hide some other Div on the web page, and on another radio button selection, you need a different Div associated with that radio button hiding the unwanted one, read on. This can be achieved very efficiently using jQuery. We can put the…
Uploading files to server is a daily chore every webmaster has to do and if you do it using some ftp client where each and every file and image, no matter how small it might be, is uploaded separately, it’s a real pain. Sometimes, It takes hours to get these files uploaded and even then…
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