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,…
What to do when Visual Studio 2008 Debugger Kills Dreamweaver?
Visual Studio 2008 Debugger Kills Dreamweaver Quoted “I’m not sure what caused the problem, but I know what fixed it. I ended up repairing Dreamweaver CS3, which the suite made pretty easy to do. I was going to uninstall DW and reinstall, but I tried the repair option first and sure enough, that fixed it. I still have no idea what caused it to begin with.” I have just encountered this problem with ‘unhandled win32 exception error in Dreamweaver.exe’ and VS2008 Debugger killing the application.…
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…
Project 3 with AW/BT
Given multiple zipcodes of USA, calculate polygon to connect all points together. The results will be returned to a web service to be used by a third party software (clients) How do we do that? Each zipcode can be converted to a Geo point which will include Latitude and Longitude. Yahoo, Google, and Bing Map provide a web service that we can call to convert this value. Now we have the geocodes, let’s sort the arrays of longitudes first. Then loop through to calculate the…