CRE Loaded Expert http://www.creloadedexpert.com Its in the name Mon, 13 Aug 2012 13:31:05 +0000 en-US hourly 1 CRE Loaded USPS Update Jan 2011 http://www.creloadedexpert.com/addon-modules/cre-loaded-usps-update http://www.creloadedexpert.com/addon-modules/cre-loaded-usps-update#comments Mon, 03 Jan 2011 03:31:59 +0000 Jason Miller http://www.creloadedexpert.com/?p=146 Update

Whoops, USPS did it again.. this time by adding in ® into their international rates.. they claim, as in the usual USPS fashion, that they didn’t change anything.. its a script issue.. Find the updated file link here or download it directly here

It was brought to our attention on Jan 4th, USPS made some changes to their API. We presented a fix to the USPS with insurance module.. Which turns out would not work with CRE Loaded.. CRE Loaded took part of our fix which addressed some of the issues.. Missing, 5 international options.. We have redone the USPS module which should work in all versions on CRE Loaded.

Instructions
VERY IMPORTANT
Log in to admin. Visit – Modules – Shipping – Select United States Postal Service Module and uninstall/remove it it is installed

Unzip our file, USPS-CRE3-7.zip
Upload the includes folder to your current sites store folder (which will include an includes folder)

Revisit admin, Modules- Shipping
Find United States Postal Service.. install it.. edit button- Now check which shipping options you want to offer Your customers. Keep in mind, GXG has 3 methods which should typically all return the same rates. You would not want to offer all three.. nor would you want to offer all the Priority methods.. It depends on your store products. If you only sell stickers that fit into USPS flat rate envelopes, the ENV option would be for you.. If all your products ship in boxes, only select the default methods such as PMI (Priority Mail International)

What’s new in 3.7?

*Admin has full control over all International shipping options

*Provided our webtools developer USPS ID.. You no longer need to create one.

*If you want to create one, the url has been updated to https://secure.shippingapis.com/registration/

*Shortened the defines displayed for international options (so all available options can be included in the database limit of 255 characters)
GXG=Global Express Guaranteed
PMI=Priority Mail International
EXI=Express Mail International
FR=Flat Rate
Env=Envelope
BoxSM= Small Box BoxMD= Medium Box BoxLG= Large Box

*Changed all international arrays to use the same naming system

*Added comments to line 339. This is where you would replace fullemailaddresshere with your real email address.. this is very handy to debug issues on rates.. Also a nice tool to see when someone requests a shipping quote from the site

]]> http://www.creloadedexpert.com/addon-modules/cre-loaded-usps-update/feed 47 Product name being cut off http://www.creloadedexpert.com/cre-loaded-how-to/product-name-being-cut-off http://www.creloadedexpert.com/cre-loaded-how-to/product-name-being-cut-off#comments Wed, 29 Dec 2010 21:32:42 +0000 Jason Miller http://www.creloadedexpert.com/?p=644 The database limits product names to 128 characters.. this value should be more than enough for most people.. if not, rethink your product names or do the following

  1. open up your database in phpmyadmin
  2. left side, click the products_description link
  3. The top tabs, click structure
  4. edit the products_name by clicking the pencil on the end of its row
  5. change the length values from 128 to whatever fits your needs

The above will allow longer titles, but may not display them in int he store and/or admin.. if this is the case, we need to dig deeper into the php on whichever page is truncating, cutting off the product name

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main_page.tpl.php
This file is the overall template holder.. this is used in all pages of your site (unless you have a very unique template that uses multiple main_page file)
The doctype declaration instructs the web browser about what version of the markup language the page is written in.

<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN"
"http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/loose.dtd">

The head element 

<head>

is a container for all the head elements. Elements inside <head> can include scripts, instruct the browser where to find style sheets,
provide meta information, and more.

The following tags can be added to the head section: <base>, <link>, <meta>, <script>, <style>,  and <title>.

The <title> tag defines the title of the document, and is the only required element in the head section! in CRE Loaded, this is pulled from the includes/header_tags.php. There is a flaw with this logic, nowhere can you assign just home page tags without using the sites default tags (meta tags that appear on all pages)

To work around this, replace

<?php
if ( file_exists(DIR_WS_INCLUDES . FILENAME_HEADER_TAGS) ) {
  require(DIR_WS_INCLUDES . FILENAME_HEADER_TAGS);
} else {
  ?>
  <title><?php echo TITLE ?></title>
  <?php
}
?>

with

<?php
$currentpage = $_SERVER['REQUEST_URI'];
if($currentpage=='/index.php' OR $currentpage=='/index.html' OR $currentpage=='/') {
echo '<title>CRE Loaded Expert - Service, Support, Hosting, Templates </title>';
echo '<meta name="Description" content="CRE Loaded Expert provides service, support, hosting and templates for your creloaded store">'; }
else {
if ( file_exists(DIR_WS_INCLUDES . FILENAME_HEADER_TAGS) ) {
  require(DIR_WS_INCLUDES . FILENAME_HEADER_TAGS);
    }
}
?>

If your creloaded is in a subfolder (not the root) you will need to modify line 3 above with the correct path
ie

 if($currentpage=='/catalog/index.php' OR $currentpage=='/catalog/index.html' OR $currentpage=='/catalog/') {

Meta tags

]]> http://www.creloadedexpert.com/cre-loaded-template-system/main_page-tpl-php/feed 0 CRE Loaded 6.4.2 Beta http://www.creloadedexpert.com/patches/cre-loaded-6-4-2-beta http://www.creloadedexpert.com/patches/cre-loaded-6-4-2-beta#comments Thu, 09 Dec 2010 19:54:12 +0000 Jason http://www.creloadedexpert.com/?p=538 The next patch version for CRE Loaded is now in beta testing. If you would like to be a beta tester and get a free B2B serial license, all it takes is following this post
CRE Loaded 6.4.2 Beta

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We have seen more sites recently that were not updated.. which allowed malicious attacks injecting script/code into checkout files.. which relayed the payment details to another site and/or email address.. basically stealing the customers credit card information.

CRE Secure does a lot here.. it is an offsite payment processing module that is templated to match your site.. Since it is offsite, PCI compliance no longer applies.. and there is no longer a worry about having the customers payment details stolen.

]]> http://www.creloadedexpert.com/secure-my-site/cre-secure/feed 0 Add SSL to an existing CRE Loaded install http://www.creloadedexpert.com/cre-loaded-how-to/add-ssl-to-an-existing-cre-loaded-install http://www.creloadedexpert.com/cre-loaded-how-to/add-ssl-to-an-existing-cre-loaded-install#comments Fri, 01 Oct 2010 19:32:54 +0000 Jason Miller https://www.creloadedexpert.com/?p=227 So you installed your CRE Loaded store script before setting up the SSL.. and now you want to configure the store to use the SSL.. Its really a simple process

1. You need to open up two files
admin/includes/configure.php
and
includes/configure.php
In both files find
define('HTTPS_SERVER', '://');

You are going to want to change the define to point to the https side of you site
define('HTTPS_SERVER', 'https://www.yourdomain.com');
In both files find
define('ENABLE_SSL', false);
and change it to true
define('ENABLE_SSL', true);
find
define('HTTPS_COOKIE_DOMAIN', '');
change to
define('HTTPS_COOKIE_DOMAIN', 'www.yourdomain.com');
this one should now match the define right above it typically www.yourdomain.com
find
define('HTTPS_COOKIE_PATH', '');
add the path of your store (/ for root /catalog/ if the store is in a folder called catalog)
define('HTTPS_COOKIE_PATH', '/');
In both files
define('DIR_WS_HTTPS_CATALOG', '');
change to the same path (/ for root – /foldername/ for all others)
define('DIR_WS_HTTPS_CATALOG', '/');
Lastly, in the admin/includes/configure.php top line
define('HTTP_SERVER', 'http://www.yourdomain.com');
we want to force all admin access to use the SSL by simply adding an s to the http
define('HTTP_SERVER', 'https://cremama.com');
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]]> http://www.creloadedexpert.com/server-stuff/server-management/feed 0 Paypal Website Payments Pro (WPP) Payment Module http://www.creloadedexpert.com/cre-loaded-how-to/paypal-website-payments-pro-wpp-payment-module http://www.creloadedexpert.com/cre-loaded-how-to/paypal-website-payments-pro-wpp-payment-module#comments Tue, 29 Jun 2010 20:54:36 +0000 Jason Miller http://www.creloadedexpert.com/?p=170 So you are using the Paypal Website Payments Pro (WPP) Payment Module found here

http://creloaded.org/extensions/Payment-Modules/Paypal-Website-Payments-Pro-(WPP)-Payment-Module/details.html

but you hate the way it plasters paypal stuff all over.. here is a fix

To remove the paypal image
includes/modules/payment/paypal_wpp.php
line 116 lists the title and the paypal image

$module_str = MODULE_PAYMENT_PAYPAL_WPP_TEXT_TITLE . 'bunchofspaces<img src="' .  MODULE_PAYMENT_PAYPAL_EC_MARK_IMG . '" />';

change it to

$module_str = MODULE_PAYMENT_PAYPAL_WPP_TEXT_TITLE;

the title is defined in includes/languages/english/modules/payment/paypal_wpp.php
line 14

define('MODULE_PAYMENT_PAYPAL_WPP_TEXT_TITLE', 'PayPal Credit Card');
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