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This desciption is applicable to all the applications PHP-eSeller, PHP-SecureArea and PHP-KeyCodes.
You should backup your database at regular intervals. You will then be able to restore the database if something goes wrong.
phpMyAdmin is the name of the program that you can use to manipulate databases.  It is usually provided as part of you control panel [...]

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Version PHP 5.3 has a number of functions that are depreciated and earlier versions of PHPeSeller, PHPSecureArea and PHPKeyCodes will display warning messages identifying those depreciated functions when installed on PHP 5.3.  It will still work as the functions are still there although they will be removed in PHP 6
To overcome this for earlier versions of the applications, in the [...]

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PHP-eSeller when used with PayPal uses IPN to control the digital downloads to the customer.
If you log into PayPal you can check what IPNs have been sent out, you can check if your application has recieved and sent back a response (it should be respopnse code 200) and you can even resend an IPN.
These are [...]

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There is a facility built into PHP-eSeller that allows you to set shipping for physical goods.  This allows you to set shipping according to the overall shopping cart value.  To use this you just activate it in the admin section of PHP-eSeller.  The calculations will be applied to the physical items only.
If you do not [...]

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You can now use Google checkout as well as PayPal to sell your digital content with PHP-eSeller.
You need a Google checkout account which will identify your merchant codes.
Enter these into the admin area of PHP-eSeller and then select the tick box that enables Google checkout in the shopping cart. The shopping cart will then display [...]

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If you want to add a PayPal hidden field such as :
<input type=”hidden” name=”page_style” value=”first_style”>
which defines the style layout for payPal, then you have to add it to the/ipn/process.php file after the line
<form method=”post” name=”paypal_form” action=”https://www.paypal.com/cgi-bin/webscr”>

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PHP-eSeller is a PHP / mySQL application that you install onto your web site and interacts with PayPal or Google Checkout to automatically sell digital files.  When the customer makes a purchase, the process of delivering the files is automatic and so provides a 24 /  7 solution.
Once PHP-eSeller is purchased, there are no additional [...]

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This describes how to set up the SMTP email for use with PHP-eSeller, PHP-SecureArea, PHP-KeyCodes.
You may find that you web server is not sending out emails as well as you would like.  Shared web servers sometimes have issues with how quickly the email is sent out and the headers in the emails.
To use an external [...]

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The csv import script has been updated to include a fuller range of product item fields. This now covers more or less all the fields in the product item list.
The fields are :
item_number
item_name
mc_gross
item_title
item_description
item_description_full
maincategory
subcategory
folder
filename
filename_small_mp3
item_image
pagetitle
metadescription
keywords
sortorder
The new file a_csv_import.php can be obtained by emailing us and replaces the file in the admin section. The file is applicable to [...]

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