I have released new Zen Cart or osCommerce software every single month for the last 5 years. Month 61; not slowing down. Thank you for using my work!
Tuesday, October 4, 2011
Sunday, October 2, 2011
osCommerce Table Discounts
Table Discounts for osCommerce is ready! All you osCommerce users who want to do Quantity Discounting on a per Category, Product or Manufacturer basis, with different schedules for each, take a look! Oh, and yes, of course Discount Preview for osCommerce works with Table Discounts, for osCommerce 2.2 and 2.3.1. (If you’re a Zen Cart user, please look at the original Table Discounts for Zen Cart.)
Sunday, April 10, 2011
Couponing ideas for your Store
A great post from Elastic Path’s Linda Bustos (@Roxyyo) contains lots of ideas on coupon creation in your online store.
Saturday, March 26, 2011
osCommerce 2.3 Better Together Promotional Page
The osCommerce Better Together Promotional Page is now available for osCommerce 2.3. For product based linkages with products that don’t have attributes, there is also an optional “Add both to Cart” button on the page.
Saturday, February 26, 2011
Better Together and Quantity Discounts released for osCommerce 2.3.1
They’re both now in the downloads area. The code is the same as it was in osCommerce 2.2; all that was changed was installation instructions.
You can read about all my osCommerce work on my website. I hope it helps your osCommerce based business!
Saturday, February 19, 2011
Discount Preview for osCommerce 2.3.1 Released
Discount Preview for osCommerce has just been updated for osCommerce 2.3.1, the latest and greatest osCommerce 2.x version. If you are using any of my osCommerce Discounting Modules, such as Better Together, Quantity Discounts, Big Spender or Big Chooser, you should look at Discount Preview.
Saturday, June 12, 2010
Better Together for osCommerce 3.0 Updated
There was an issue with category determination in Better Together for osCommerce 3.0. Please update if you are using this software. Note that Better Together for osCommerce 2.2 was not affected by this update; only osCommerce 3.0 users need the fix.
Sunday, November 22, 2009
Big Chooser and Big Spender for osCommerce
Big Chooser is product based discounting. Buy multiple items, get a discount on other products or combinations of products, or receive other products or combinations of products free.
Big Spender is dollar based discounting. Spend over a certain dollar amount, get a discount on other products / receive other products free.
These extensions are based on algorithms of the same name for Zen Cart which have been around for a while, so osCommerce users get the benefit of field-hardened code from day one. Big Chooser and Big Spender are ready for deployment to your osCommerce based cart today!
Wednesday, October 14, 2009
My Zen Cart was hacked – now what?
Reconcile yourself to a weekend of hard work. It’s not invention – you can do it yourself, and you don’t need to hire me – but it is work, and I recommend not taking shortcuts that might leave holes in your system.
You will need to delete what’s on your site and restore from a known good backup. And when I say “delete what’s on your site,” I mean everything. The exploits I have seen are infecting files in unrelated directories; every PHP file is getting damaged.
If you don’t have a good backup, you should install the latest Zen Cart and install your mods and template by hand.
Before you install your backup (or a fresh download), here is what you need to do locally to your files. This will become your new backup site.
- Install all of the security patches.
- One of these patches had as a substep, “rename your admin directory.” Have you done this? YOU MUST DO THIS. Here are step by step changes for renaming your Zen Cart Admin Page.
- Check the permissions on all files and directories. My SysCheck utility for Zen Cart will help you do this. It’s a free download from my site.
Once you’re ready to install, check your PC for viruses. You may have a trojan or a keylogger that’s capturing passwords running on your PC. Then (and only then!) do these things:
- Change your CPanel password.
- Change your database password (from your hosting control panel – cPanel or some similar system). Then put this new password in includes/configure.php and YOUR-ADMIN/includes/configure.php.
- Change your FTP password.
- Install your files
- Add .htaccess protection to your new admin directory from your control panel.
- Go into your admin panel, and go to tools/admin settings. Make sure there aren’t any extra admin accounts. Change the passwords on all admin accounts.
- Re-run SysCheck (you installed it, right?) to double-check your installation.
The question of whether running phpSuExec is better is often asked. I do have a preference for phpSuExec because it means you don’t have to leave your images directory open (permissions 777). But the I prefer PHP as an Apache module with all the fixes above to phpSuExec without them. The real issue is generally whether you have applied patches and security recommendations and kept up to date, not whether you are using mod PHP or phpSuExec; I have seen both types of servers attacked.
If you are running osCommerce instead of Zen Cart, the steps and recommendations are similar. There is also a SysCheck for osCommerce.
Monday, October 5, 2009
Boilerplate Mods for osCommerce
I modified my Zen Cart tips on adding boilerplate to make them applicable to osCommerce. Here they are: Boilerplate text in Description field, and Using files containing boilerplate text in Description field.
