X-Cart Payment with AuthorizeNet CIM
My instruction here is for PHP/ X-Cart developer only. Some businesses may already have customer credit card information thru AuthorizeNet CIM system. All you’ll do is adding some files and functions to charge the existing credit card instead of asking customers to enter credit card information again on every purchase. Here’re some steps to follow to integrate CIM in your X-Cart. Step 1: Register with AuthorizeNet the CIM feature. It may cost a little monthly fee by Authorize.Net. Step 2: FTP to your server. Go…
How to enable multiple products per row on front page
For some small retailers who have million online products, you can log in to Zencart Store Admin in the back-end, select Index Listing under Configuration menu, set how many products per row you’d like to be displayed on the front page. By default, it’s 3.
How to move ZenCart to another server
I’ve moved so many Zen carts to many servers before, so this is my input to help out some developers out there trying to move a zencart over to another server environment. Check for version compatibility: Every Zencart has its version, check to make sure that the Zencart version is compatible with the PHPMySQL version where you want to move the cart to. Don’t proceed next step if the new server is not compatible to your old Zencart version. Try to download the latest or…
X-Monitoring for X-Cart is the must have
Yesterday I re-installed X-Cart Gold for 1 of my customers and the Apache server keeps failing over the last night while we were asleep. If X-Monitoring wasn’t enabled in X-Cart Admin module settings, we could have never found out that our server was down last night. X-Monitoring was a built-in module in X-Cart package when you pay for the license, you can log in to Admin area and turn it on or off. I’d recommend you leave it on by default. By the way, during…
How to stop a webpage from auto refreshing constantly
There’re a few questions related to this matter I received today from my clients. Some of them have tried “break;” and “window.stop();” and “pause();” and “window.location.reload(false);”, … you name it; however, non of them works. There’s a trick to reload a webpage once and stop the webpage from auto-refreshing itself. At the end of the URL, add the pound sign like this # in the Get or Post URL. Then when you retrieve the value by GET/POST variables, remember to remove the # sign by…