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…

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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…

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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,…

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