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A PHP shopping cart application for selling digital downloads as well as physical goods

Number of product items per page

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How to change the number of items displayed in PHP-eSeller and in the admin area of PHP-SecureArea.

With PHP-eSeller, if you are using a template driven display and wish to change the number of product items displayed per page then it can be done very easily. If you open up the file /functionscart/content.php in a text editor, you should see near the top of the file some page configuration settings. Similarly, in cart/includes/content.php file you will find configuration page settings which you can change if you are using this as your display.

With PHP-SecureArea, you may wish to change the number of users that are displayed in the admin display. Again this is very easy to do by opening the file a_usersmanage.php in a text editor and looking for the page configuration settings which are a few lines down in the code.

Make sure that you use a text editor such as notepad or a web page editing application – don’t use MS Word. Also, take a backup of any pages before you make changes, just in case.

PayPal and eChecks

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An eCheck is when the customer only has a bank account, and not a credit card or additional form of payment to back up their account should their account be overdrawn when PayPal tries to debit it, so PayPal doesn’t pay you for 3-5 days while they wait for the money to transfer.

All withinweb applications (PHP-SecureArea, PHP-eSeller, or PHP-Keycodes) are able to handle Checks and in addition, will automatically send an email to the purchaser informing them that they have paid by eCheck and that there will be a delay before purchase is complete. Once the eCheck has cleared the application (PHP-SecureArea, PHP-eSeller, or PHP-Keycodes) will complete the process in the normal way and send the appropriate emails to the customer all without intervention by yourself.

When we recieve an eCheck purchase we often send an additional email to the customer just to further explain the situation and maintain a relationship with the customer.

In fact there are many situations where there can be a delay in payment being completed. All these situations are automatically handled by Withinweb.com applications.

There can be customer service nightmares when people use eChecks in PayPal. Most customers don’t know what it is, and PayPal appears not to warn them. Providing that you inform the customer, there should not be a problem and you can maintain your relationship with the customer.

Finding the full path name (absolute path) of a folder

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With many applications it is neccessary to find the full path name of a folder and then enter it into the admin area of the application. This is required in PHP-eSeller to identify the location of the digital files, and it is required in PHP-SecureArea to define the secure folders.

Download, unzip, and ftp to the location of the folder and then call the file in your browser – http://www.example.com/images/absolutepath.php

Click here to download the file absolutepath.zip

Another way of finding the full path name is to log in to the admin pages of PHP-eSeller or PHP-SecureArea and click on the menu item ‘PHP Info’ and look for SCRIPT_FILENAME. That will give you the full file name of that file you are looking at. From that you should beable to work backwards to the root of your web site or to any other part of your site.

Note that the full path name of the folder is not the same as the http url of the folder directory – it will not work.

How do I reset the admin password in my application?

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I have had a few users forget their password that they use to login to the admin area of either PHP-eSeller, PHP-SecureArea or PHP-KeyCodes.

The best way to reset the admin password is by using the myPHPAdmin facility in your server control panel. If you log in to your server control panel and find myPHPAdmin, then find the database for the application, and then click on SQL tab you will be presented with a box to enter sql.

Enter

UPDATE name_of_password_table_here SET userpassword = md5('admin') WHERE username = 'xxxxxx'

The name of the password table will either be ipn_tblpasswords, or sec_tblpasswords or key_tblpasswords depending on the application, and xxxxx is the username which is in the table.

This will then set the password to ‘admin’ for that username.

Further desciption of search system in PHP-eSeller templates

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If you use PHP-eSeller and use the template system, the following describes the search function in a bit more detail.

The search system in the templates use the mySQL FULLTEXT search using the MATCH keyword.

The fields that are searched are in tblitems and are item_name, item_title, item_description, item_description_full and keywords

First, all MySQL stop words are ignored in the keyword phrase used in a search. Stopwords are commonly used words that generally do not add anything useful to a search phrase.

Second, alphabetic character case is ignored in a MySQL search, so you do not have to convert anything to all upper or lower case in order to search.

Third, any word found in more than 50% of the rows in the index will be ignored when you use the text search.

Fourth, the results will be automatically sorted by relevancy, so the more times the search words appear in a row in the index, the more relevant that particular entry will be.

Fifth, remember that MySQL does not index any words that are 3 or less characters in length, so very short words are ignored.

Sixth, hyphenated words are treated as separate words.

The important point is probably the third. What this means is that if you have 100 rows where each row has the word ‘computer’ in it, and you do a search for the word ‘computer’, you will get zero result. This is because the search term is not specific enough and hence is unable to return specific rows.