Zip after State in Create Account

For those in the UK, Gary Burton’s osCommerce for the UK provides instructions for how to move the post code after county.  Since the position of the zip code is just as inappropriate in the US as in the UK, I’m posting the equivalent instructions here.  First, make a backup copy of create_account.php.  Since you [...]

For those who haven’t already clicked the link at the left for osC Books, you might want to check it out.  The osC Books site currently offers free downloads for tutorials on installing osCommerce, working with products & categories, and adding informational pages.  All three tutorials are free to download on the osC Books site. [...]

I worked on a site recently where the client’s payment processing was not working.  The order was getting reserved in the database, but no details were appearing.  However, payment completed on the processor’s side. This particular processor operated like PayPal IPN.  First, you add an order to the database.  Then redirect to the processor to [...]

If you look in the osCommerce language files, there is often a line like @setlocale(LC_TIME, ‘en_US.ISO_8859-1′); What this does, when it works, is it sets the PHP time handling functions to use the specified locale’s format.  For many installs, this is unnecessary, as the server default will be correct.  Not infrequently, the locale will be [...]

Now, if you want to read how to Make osCommerce Work for You from The eCartz Biz on your Amazon Kindle, you can. Have an idea about what you’d like to see discussed on The eCartz Biz? Post it here. Also post what kind of Kindle you have if you have one.  I’m curious as [...]

I wrote my first WordPress plugin today: Do Not Rewrite HTAccess.  I have been working to implement the same kind of rewrite scheme for my WordPress blog as Chemo’s Ultimate SEO URLs addon does for osCommerce.  I have static mod_rewrite rules saved in my .htaccess file that handle both a root level osCommerce shop and [...]

Jan Zonjee recently reported that an exploit has been found in osCommerce’s admin authentication.  The osCommerce team recommends that shop owners rename their admin directory and switch to Apache’s Basic Authentication.  For people who do this, they also suggest some code changes to allow the osCommerce admin authentication scheme to auto-login someone who already authenticated [...]

I do not actually get asked this often.  However, it is relatively obvious that people do not get eCartz.  For example, it’s not uncommon for people to capitalize it as Ecartz rather than eCartz. When I was first going solo, I wanted to make a business name that had inherent meaning.  Since I was planning [...]

My eCartz account on the osCommerce Forums has reached a thousand posts.  I don’t know that it will ever have as many posts as my iiinetworks account did, but it’s moving up.  It’s too bad I can’t merge the accounts.  I’d jump up to fifteenth overall again. At one point, iiinetworks was second to Ajeh [...]