How to add a new menu item for X-Cart website
Login to the store Admin, you’ll find “Speed Bar” menu under Administration category. Define the link title and the URL that links to that menu item. Remember to check Active checkbox for that new menu item. For the URL, you can point to an external URL such as http://www.google.com, or you can link it to a static webpage on your website such as Terms & Conditions, or Privacy Policy, or How it works.
How to move X-Cart and its database to a new hosting server
Make sure that you close your store. Log in to X-Cart Admin, click on Store Maintenance and check the close store. Use phpMyAdmin provided by your hosting server provider. Export all tables of your X-Cart database to a .sql file Go to the new hosting server, create a database and import this .sql file to new server. Some data may cause a corruption during the import. Make sure that no files in your root directory have names similar to those in your X-Cart directory, otherwise…
How to add an extra data for each product in X-Cart
If you want to add an extra information about a product, login to Store Admin, click on “Extra Fields” on the menu. Add a new field. Remember to give it a field name without a space. Ex. product_year. Then click button “Add New” Now go back to product modification/add page, you’ll see this new extra field. The value allows only 255 characters, so you don’t want to type some text longer than that because it won’t be saved to your database. Now if you want…
How to integrate X-Cart with your phpBB Forums?
Many of you already have an existing phpBB forums on your server. Now you will need to build a function inside the forums root directory to accept customer’s profile information includes Login, Password, and Email address from X-Cart software. In X-Cart software root directory, you will have another function that will retrieve customer’s information. At the end of function, you will need to redirect the customer to the forums front page and auto-login. If you are not sure about how the 2 functions look like,…
How to use an array variables with Google Map
I’m working on a Google Map integration project for a company who owns X-Cart online software. The project is to display all dryclean providers of 50 states in the US on the Google Map. Each state will have multiple city and each city will include multiple dryclean providers who register to the service. When a customer clicks on a location on the map, it will zoom in to that exact location. At the same time, the information about that laundry provider will be displayed on…