Forum: Documentation, Tutorials, Etc...

One of our customers mentioned a free currency conversion utility that some of you may be interested in: http://dynamicconverter.com/ I just tried it in Squirrelcart, and it works OK. You need to follow their instructions, and paste their code directly before the closing </body> tag in your...

The SEO URLs feature requires support for the PATH_INFO variable, or at least support for passing data via the URL prior to a query string: http://www.example.com/page.php/data/here/before/query/string/?page=blah On some servers (GoDaddy in particular) URLs of this format will result in the...

Hi Is there a way to display New Products in a Nav Block it a similar way the Category Preview works? Thanks

Someone suggested I post some info on this, so here goes. Navigation Block records have a Show When field on them. That field can be used to control when the nav block appears. Leave it blank, and it appears on all pages. If you enter a PHP statement that can evaluate to true or false, the nav...

I would like to feature one product outside of the squirrelcart folder on our main website. So visible on: http://www.example.com/page.php as well as: http://www.example.com/squirrelcart/store.php

Many people have asked us if you can setup Squirrelcart so that a product can be added to the cart right from the category detail page. The category detail page is seen when you click on a category in the left "Product Catalog" nav. By default, the add to cart button only appears after you click...

OK...this is a better and slightly more complicated way to handle adding links that will show your own content inside Squirrelcart's content area. This post is basically a new way to do what we described here: http://www.ldev.com/forums/showthread.php?t=224 This is a 2 part thread. Part one...

I've been going through the 3.0.0 files. If I add the content navigation box for "Featured Products", the box adds and it contains a list of products. What button/option/selection controls what products are listed as a "Featured Product"? I could find no setting in the product records, no...

If you are having a problem where the left or right navigation columns are extending past the center content area in your design, see this forum thread for info on how to resolve that: http://www.ldev.com/forums/showthread.php?p=19458&posted=1 That thread explains how to change the positioning...

Warning: This topic assumes you have a good understanding of CSS. If you don't, you may find this confusing! As of version 3, Squirrelcart supports stylesheet variant files. If you are new to this, read through the "Customizing > Stylesheets" section of our documentation. By default, each...

Edit - 01/31/2006: This post was updated to include instructions for versions 2.0.0 and newer. Edit - 12/09/2009: This procedure is not necessary in versions 3 and newer. Squirrelcart automatically skips the shipping step when no shipping rates are available for a given order in version 3. If...

Hey there. In case anyone isn't aware, Squirrelcart supports keyboard shortcut keys to save an open record. In IE, the shortcut is ALT-S In newer versions of Firefox, you have to press ALT-SHIFT-S To change Firefox so it will work with just ALT-S, do the following (at your own peril!! ;) ):...

A customer asked if there was a way to force a customer to purchase a single cooler, only if they have at least one perishable food item in their cart. This hack accomplishes that in versions 2.5.0 and newer. 1. You need a custom theme for this, and it needs to be set as your store's default...

Below is a description of the three options below the "Shipping" menu in the administration page of Squirrelcart: 1. Shipping Couriers - this is a table that basically just lists the couriers. If all of a sudden your store starting using a new courier, like "Bob's Delivery", this is where you...

Is it possible to add to cart button in the thumbnail template? This would be easy for our customer who knows exactly what they want to click on to add item instead of clicking on the item for full description and then clicking add to cart. thanks, david

When I click on the contact us link it goes to this page:http://www.creativeplayer.net/store.php?page=contact but the page is blank. How do I get the store info from the database to come up in this link? www.creativeplayer.net/store.php

We've had many requests on how you can take your store offline. Here is one method you can use which will take your storefront page offline for anyone that is not logged in as a store admin. 1. Find this line at the top of your storefront page (store.php by default): <?php include...

There are many evil :twisted: people out there who like to use stolen credit cards to try and purchase online. We just had an order today that someone placed with a stolen credit card. They gave an address in New York, but they where sitting somewhere in Saudi Arabia. Here is some info that may...