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Get FCKeditor work on Oscommerce 2.2 release 2a

Published by WebGuru on July 2, 2008 in PHP. 0 Comments

OSCommerceToday I downloaded All In One FCK Editor WYSIWYG Editor Oscommerce add-ons since I needed to add a WYSIWYG(What You See Is What You Get) HTML editor on one of my client’s Oscommerce Shopping Cart site.

After I did all uploadings and changes according to the Readme document, I got the following errors after I refreshed the back-end page.

Warning: Failed opening ‘fckeditor_php4.php’ for inclusion (include_path=”) in /var/www/html/catalog/admin/fckeditor/fckeditor.php on line 75

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The error ‘Unable to determine the page link’ in OSCommerce MS 2

Published by WebGuru on March 6, 2008 in PHP. 2 Comments

Challenge: Recently I tried to move an older OSC website from one host to another host. After I made changes in the configure.php files and uploaded them to the new host, the first page could not be loaded such error messages as “unable to determine the page link…”. And everything would be fine if I commented out any codes with basename($PHP_SELF) function.

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How to set up your own customized template overrides?

Published by WebGuru on February 2, 2008 in PHP. 0 Comments

Like I copied a post from zen-cart on last weekend, I set up a blank new customized template for zen-cart. But it does not do any good if I do not create any my own overrides to display my own style/texts. The following is a how-to from zen-cart support website covering this topic, and I am pasting here for my own reference.

Basically in the /includes/templates/CUSTOM you can start with copying any templates files/sub-folders from /includes/templates/template_default or /includes/templates/classic, and then whatever your style changes there. But some language related changes should be changed in /includes/languages/LANGUAGE folder.

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How to customized your own template for Zen-cart shopping cart Open Source application

Published by WebGuru on January 30, 2008 in PHP. 3 Comments

This article is copied from the official zen-cart support web site.

Since Version 1.3.+ Zen Cart™ has moved away from its old table based layout to a CSS based layout.

CAPITALIZED words refer to a folder or language that you choose. We use CUSTOM for your template and ENGLISH for your language by default. Change these if needed.

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About the installation of YetAnotherForum

Published by WebGuru on January 25, 2008 in ASP and ASP.net. 1 Comment

YetAnotherForumSome steps to install the free ASP.NET open source forum:

1. First of all, of course you should download this application from http://www.yetanotherforum.net/.
2. Prepare the Microsoft SQL Express database. If you have not installed any on your servers yet, you can download it from Microsoft website for free. When you are on Microsoft Download center, remember you not only need  SQL Server 2005  Express database service, but you also need SQL Server Management Studio Express to create a initial forum admin user.
3. Create a login for your new SQL database, and then a new database Instance. With such information, including Database Name and Logon Account/Password, you can modify the yanet.config first before you start to install the forum.
4. Finally, you can run the installation from the URL of http://yourdomainname/YaNet/install/default.aspx.

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Recommend a free ASP.NET C# open source forum

Published by WebGuru on January 24, 2008 in ASP and ASP.net. 6 Comments

YetAnotherForumCurrently it is very difficult to find a good ASP.NET discussion board program. Since one of my clients is using Windows hosting plan, it is not good to recommend vBulletin or PHPbb to him when he asked my suggestion on setting up a community forum.

To started, I did a little bit of researches on the following 3 asp.net forums.

  1. Jitbit 的 ASPNetForum 4.5.x (free, $85 and $169 versions)
  2. Austrian Active Data Online - Discussion Board 6.x ($200)
  3. England Instant Forum 4.x ($119 or $199)

Only AspNETForum offers the downloads, for the others you will have to go to their web sites for the demonstrations. To be summarized, all of the three above are not too bad, and not too expensive. Especially the AspNetForum can be free if you keep its logo on your forum. And AspNetForum is very clean and simple on the layout too. But “simple” is not always good for the administrators. In AspNetForum, you can not set up different type of boards, and you could not control the configuration from the back-end control panel either. For example, you will have to edit the web.config file to set up bad words filter.

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Put IE into your favorite browser - Firefox

Published by WebGuru on August 10, 2006 in Internet Adventure and Software Apps. 0 Comments

I love Firefox, not to say its charming security features and I already felt hooked up especially after a long time playing. But life is always hard to be satisfied. There are still a bunch of website which were not designed well so that they can not perform well in Firefox but good in IE. Like some websites under Micro$oft domain, and one of my favorite online radio site KissRadio. I used to fire these two different types of browsers and busy with switching between them. Life gets better now when
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Open Source shopping cart Zen-Cart

Published by WebGuru on July 16, 2006 in PHP. 0 Comments

I used a very good shopping cart before for my own website. This time I have to set up a shopping cart application very quickly for one of my clients. He needs shopping cart component and paypal payment component only. I could not hesitate a second to recommend Zen-cart.

I went to SourceForge.net and downloaded zen-cart 1.3.02, and found that I love it again. Its core code is in PHP/My SQL, very easy to set up and make it up and running. Best of all, it is free with all features I need.

The next step is to tweak it with the customized template. I will let you know soon.

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