Recently had issue where customer complained that discount coupon amount was not being deducted during checkout. This issue was causing many customers to loss as amount on PayPal page was shown without discount.
What I found out that issue was due to a configuration which dose not cater the discount coupon amount. One configuration called “Shopping Cart Method” was set to “Itemized”. This setting shows item wise detail on PayPal checkout page. As discount coupons are applied on an order not on any particular item, so the total amount charged is without discount.
When the option was set to “Aggregate” mode the issue resolved. This does not show much detail for items purchased, on PayPal page but shows the correct amount to charge. So this works for me.
So if you want to do the same, login to your admin area and go to Modules > Payment and select the PayPal module. Now click on Edit button and find Shopping Cart Method and select “Aggregate” option. Click “update” button to save this change. The should be gone.
I have tried this on CRE Loaded pro 6.2 but it should also work for other version of CRE Loaded and OSCommerce as well.
For more updates and fix in CRE Loaded keep visiting CRE Loaded section on my blog.
Search feature in OSCommerce and CRE Loaded provide an important functionality for visitors to perform custom search. Its important to know what visitors are searching on your site. Luckily Google Ananlytics (GA) provides and easy way to track these searches.
To enable this tracking your need to login to your GA account and goto Analytics Settings > Profile Settings > Edit Profile Information. Under Site Search select Do Track Site Search. Now you need to tell what parameter contains the search term. As internal search is provided on this page advanced_search_result.php?keywords=test, here we have to track keywords parameter. So put keywords in Query Parameter (required): field.
This will enable tracking for searches performed on your site. Many useful reports are provided by GA telling for example what people are searching and many other things.
Create a Google site map for a large or medium site can require a lot of efforts. I had same problem to create a site map having more than 1000 index able pages of different types. Luckly I found a nice tool which can crawl site and generate site map automatically. The software can generate site map in Google and Yahoo! format.
There are some online site map generators but I did not find as good as this one. Few features that I found very valuable are, one ability to exclude pages by extension and second it can exclude URLs based on robots.txt. Third is it can show duplicate content and remove these pages from site map.
The software is called GSiteCrawler and can be found at gsitecrawler.com.
Recently came across site which allows to convert any web page to PDF and download it. The site is http://www.pdfmyurl.com/. Did I tell that its FREE? yes its free.
Few days back had a problem where my php pages were working fine but had problem with response code it was sending. The page was returning “500 Internal server error” instead of “200 OK”. I recently had updated php and apache version so initially thought there must be some problem with it.
First I tried to match new php setting with old php. After about an hour, when I changed display_errors = On the response header was fixed. The issue was because I had error_reporting = E_ALL so there must be some warnings etc being thrown. My display_errors setting was Off so it was setting response code to “500 Internal Server Error”.
So simple fix is that you turn off error_reporting or turn on the display_errors.