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Comment on Visualizing Comcast Powerboost™ by mightyscotchpine

mightyscotchpine — Tue, 17 Apr 2012 05:39:51 +0000

Did you ever try scripting this idea on your WRT? It’s interesting that Comcast’s service defines a new “file” by the intervening pauses. It makes sense. How would Comcast know you’re not downloading a different file from the same host, unless they were cracking open the individual packets. And if I’m using SSL, that *should* be nearly impossible.

Comment on Using Zen-Cart as a “Cart Only” system by lollygaggr

lollygaggr — Sat, 14 Jan 2012 22:38:29 +0000

Brian,

I’ve been working on this site for a friend. I have followed the tutorial as best I could, I am not a programmer but I like the idea of not having to rewrite a template for zen or oscart. I cut and pasted what I’ve learned here. It is at this site only, the rest of the site is untouched. http://metahwonders.com/test.html . All that I can get to happen is zen does recognized there have been ‘visits’ to the site but nothing else. Man, I really wanna do this but so far it’s not working out. (Excuse my code, it’s not the best).

Thanx man,
Mike

Comment on Using Zen-Cart as a “Cart Only” system by Brian

Brian — Fri, 06 Jan 2012 21:14:57 +0000

I didn’t want to delve into creating my own cart and I liked Zen-Cart for it’s size, speed and proven security. It also added a lot of features that simply went beyond what I would have been able to do myself. Also, I have a CMS that I like (Contao) and only needed a simple “add to cart” function. There is a store addon for Contao called Isotope, but It had limitations and I liked the flexibly of this method.

Since the writing of this post I’ve refined things a bit and have switched from Zen Cart to OpenCart.

Opencart is similar to Zencart (Database structure, terminology, form submits for adding items), but has a FAR FAR better template system and a modern admin area. I was able to adapt my Zencart code to opencart in less than an hour. Once I get some time I want to make an updated post detailing how that is done.

Comment on Using Zen-Cart as a “Cart Only” system by Ben

Ben — Fri, 06 Jan 2012 20:55:28 +0000

I like this whole concept. I explored it a bit on small projects as perhaps a viable option in the past. Given the ease of passing information to a credit card processor, and generating shipping quotes, and the bulk of Zen Carts other features you would deprecate. It seems like a cart only portion of zen cart on a site, would still be more work(in the long term) than a sessions/db(optional) based homegrown cart from the ground up. Effectively just forms, hidden vars, and session variables moving via POST/and url strings. In the long term it might also be easier to support attributes on products on the fly, any other product changes, and an opportunity for a nicer UI. What made you decide to use ZC’s cart?

Comment on Using Zen-Cart as a “Cart Only” system by Lacrust

Lacrust — Wed, 23 Nov 2011 11:38:39 +0000

Hi all,

Upon following the first step by adding the following code

I get an invalid markup error in dreamweaver:

” Invalid markup

Marked invalid because it contains a duplicate attribute

And the line:

"”

is hightlighted in yellow, under the design view.

My cart directory is called “store”

That’s all changed on the code, besides adding the product value

You can see the page here

http://www.lacrust.com/polos.html

Any help would be much appreciated.

Thanks.

Mauro

Comment on Using Zen-Cart as a “Cart Only” system by newdesigner

newdesigner — Mon, 21 Nov 2011 19:59:01 +0000

I have read through this and understand a little. I am new to all this and don’t know how to do all the steps. I am trying to use zen cart with paypal and dreamweaver and my small amount of code writing skills. learning as I am going and w3schools. Can you help. I have been to a thousand different forums and have found nothing.

Comment on Using Zen-Cart as a “Cart Only” system by Austin

Austin — Tue, 18 Oct 2011 22:59:39 +0000

Figured it out… with much hair pulling…

it’s important to note that the website you are doing this on cannot have the www. before it.

and you cant work with local files, references must be used from your server root. So instead of:
http://www.yourwebsite.com/blah/blah/blah

it must be just /blah/blah/blah

Comment on Using Zen-Cart as a “Cart Only” system by Austin

Austin — Thu, 13 Oct 2011 22:22:43 +0000

I figured it out a couple of minutes ago, there was a syntax error from your copied code in the blog post at the end with the checkout button that wasn’t closing the php, so the div’s werent closing either.

now im running into not having my “cartbox” “car_box_content” and “cart_message” divs fill with the info from the hidden area on the template page…

in your js the first var = cartXitemsInCart is looking for div#cart. Does that mean its looking for any div in #cart? if so, there isnt a div named that on the zencart template file we’ve edited… I’ve tried adding it, but it doesnt seem to fix the problem either.

Comment on Using Zen-Cart as a “Cart Only” system by Brian

Brian — Thu, 13 Oct 2011 21:02:44 +0000

Sounds like you replaced all the code in your tpl file. You need to insert the code block as an addition. All it does is create a hidden and separately formatted area that the jQuery code can pull from.

You should insert the code around line 160 in the TPL file. It goes after the

Comment on Using Zen-Cart as a “Cart Only” system by Austin

Austin — Thu, 13 Oct 2011 19:18:07 +0000

Hello All,
First off this is a great idea and has helped me a lot getting a site off the ground…

quick question… @brian

when I edit the tpl_shopping_cart.php and put in your code everything on that page except the top nav disappears

so the hidden code you gave us and the code that is supposed to be there already are both gone.

does anyone have an example .php file I could look at?

I’ve got the form on my site adding to the iframe cart with attributes, just cant seem to get the cart to display correctly.