A new version of Leapfrog has been released.
Please visit the Leapfrog overview post to download it.
Leapfrog is a dynamic visitor tracking contribution for osCommerce. You can read more about it here or watch the online demo.
If you have read my previous posts about Leapfrog, you will know that I am quite keen on Flex.
Flex is a new programming language by Adobe, developed to convince the world that Flash is not just about cartoons and animation.
It’s aimed at serious developers who want to harness the ubiquitous nature of the Flash Player, installed on over 98% of internet enabled desktops in mature markets (Abobe.com, 2006), and create powerful internet applications with beautiful interfaces.
This article ponders about the idea of creating an osCommerce store in Flex.
Continue reading ‘Musing About Flex and osCommerce - A Step Backwards or Leap Forwards?’
In the administration area under Reports, you will find a list of products and the number of times they have been viewed.
If you are have been developing your site, then chances are most of these views will be from you. To rest all the values to zero, here’s what to do.
A quick way to change the default look of your osCommerce store is to change the width of the navigation columns that sit to the left and right of your main content. Here’s how to do it.
Continue reading ‘How to Change the Width of the Navigation Columns’
In part one of this three part series, I explained what Subversion is, and why it is useful.
In this part we will setup a small project and then use TortoiseSVN to manage it for us. This will involve making minor changes to a vanilla version of osCommerce 2.2 MS2. We will not be installing or running the store, so there is no need to have a web server or mySQL installed to complete this tutorial.
The examples used have been geared towards osCommerce developers, but will still be useful to others.
Continue reading ‘How Subversion Can Solve Your Development Nightmares – Part 2 of 3′
Imagine this…
You’ve just spent several hours upgrading your client’s store. Everything looks great on your test server, so you push the changes live.
Firing up a browser, you visit the client’s live store to marvel at your work, only to be presented with a series of error messages.
Uh oh.
The store is broken, your client is losing sales, and you’ve got no idea how long it’s going to take to fix. What do you do?
Continue reading ‘How Subversion Can Solve Your Development Nightmares – Part 1 of 3′
This three part series is for osCommerce developers who want to manage and organise the way they work. Using revision control software you can make your life easier and save yourself from potential problems.
A new version of Leapfrog has been released.
Please visit the Leapfrog overview post to download it.
Leapfrog is a dynamic visitor tracking contribution for osCommerce. You can read more about it here or watch the online demo.
If you are having trouble installing Leapfrog then head over to the official support thread on the osCommerce forums.
Forum members are actively posting solutions to issues they have found. The one you need might be there already.
Whilst working on my Power Pack, I discovered two limitations of the osCommerce install process.
The default osCommerce package comes complete with a SQL file containing all the tables and sample data needed to populate a database. This file can be found at catalog/includes/install/oscommerce.sql.
I wanted to add extra SQL commands that were needed by my contributions into this file, so the installation process would do everthing.
This way anyone installing my osCommerce Power Pack would not need to perform additional tasks having been through the default install process (great for new users who aren’t all that technically savvy).
Having added my commands to the end of oscommerce.sql, I proceeded through the default install process only to find some of my commands were not being executed.
Hmm…
Continue reading ‘2 Caveats To Be Aware of When Creating Your Own osCommerce Package’
