Mon, 06 Sep 2010 08:56:49 +0100 1800 This is the RSS feed of the last ten file submissions accepted into our database. This RSS feed is always up to date as it is dynamically updated. This addon will enable a short list of some of the more useful social bookmarks and services. It can be placed anywhere you may see fit. Wed, 14 Apr 2010 02:09:38 +0100 59 KissER Error Handling & Debugging

a KISS contribution ( Keep It Simple Stupid )

Compatibility:
osCommerce ( MS2.2/RC ALL )
PHP5.2+/5.3+ ( PHP 4 NOT supported )

Installation:
Simple 2-3 minutes

Potential code conflicts:
Effectively none, the one exception would be if the tep_db_query() function had been modified for Chemos old query debug.

What is it and what will it do for me?

Main Benefits:

• Would you like to be able to find and handle errors that your site is currently hiding/suppressing?
• Would you like to have a file to check to see if your site has any errors while at the front end the users see nothing?
• Ever been developing a site and would like to see errors without them breaking up the page?
• Ever wanted to look for errors but don't want to "turn up" the error reporting because users would see them?
• Ever wanted to show a new client just how many errors their current osCommerce site has but they can't see?
• Would you like to stop errors from printing out full paths in view of the hacking world?
• Would you like to easily be able to debug: queries, variables, arrays, objects or site slowdowns?

Gracefull Error Handling:

Disclaimer: Some PHP errors like parse errors and fatal errors can NOT be handled gracefully.

osCommerce has nothing in place at all to deal with errors, either you suppress errors ( error_reporting ( E_ALL & ~E_NOTICE ) ) which is the standard osCommerce set up. Or you set error reporting high ( error_reporting ( E_ALL | E_STRICT ) ) and the site falls apart with errors all over the shop. ( obviously not possible on a live site ).

Understandably because of this the vast majority of osCommerce installations suppress all errors. What this means is that most osCommerce installations have tons of errors but the owners of the sites are happily ignorant of this fact. You will probably be surprised to know that some shops even suppress warnings, terrible!

Also, when errors print to screen via standard PHP error handling they show your servers full path which is a potential serious security risk, KissER suppresses these full paths.

There are those ( usually contributors of dodgy contributions or incapable developers ) who would tell you "don't worry about those, they are only notices .. they're fine!", rubbish!, errors are errors and a good shop should have none. An error free shop will be faster, more secure and easier to debug. Ignore errors at your peril!

Think your site is error free? I very much doubt it!

But the last thing I want my users to see is errors!!

Agreed .. which is why KissER Error Handling & Debugging has settings where these errors can be printed to screen but only visible to you, or silently written to an error file where you can view and handle them at your leisure.

Debugging:

Powerful set of simple to use debugging tools where you can easily debug: -

• queries
• variables
• arrays
• objects

You can also use "break points" to locate where a site is slowing down or breaking.]]> Thu, 28 Jan 2010 15:19:17 +0000 58 KissMT Dynamic SEO Meta & Canonical Header Tags version 1.0 RC
powerful seo meta tags & canonical elements in just 5 minutes.

Compatibility:
Oscommerce MS2.2, RC (all versions)
PHP 5.2+/5.3+ ( PHP 4 NOT supported )
MySQL 4/5

Credits: ( thanks to all the beta testers without whom the initial KissMT release could never have been so solid )
Special thanks to:
Tom aka tomh/perfectpassion, Graeme aka knott, ken aka ken44, James aka jwilkins, squid
Thanks also to:
Wim aka Mister_dj, Onno aka Onnootje, John aka berkedam, Fabian aka proimage,
Daniel aka Morpheus1979, Marie aka mariemeh.

Recommendations:
We recommend the use of Ultimate Seo Urls 5/5 Pro as the perfect Seo Url addition to this contribution.
http://addons.oscommerce.com/info/6768

Header tags seo and other meta tag contributions:
Want to try this out but leave your existing meta tags contribution in place? Do the safe 2 minute test! ( documentation/2_minute_test.html )

Features:

• Fast 5 minute install ( easy for beginners and experienced )
• Dynamically generated meaningful meta tags with no complexity.
• No core osCommerce file changes ( except replacing the <title></title> in the catalog files ).
• Updates and upgrades with no core osCommerce file changes ( just replace the module directory ).
• Compatible with highly modified sites. ( due to "no core osCommerce file changes" )
• Modern Canonical elements, as recommended by Mat Cutts of Google, protecting you against indexed sessions ( osCsid ) and duplicate content.
• Automated Meta titles intelligently built (to your specified length)
• Automated keyword generation with stopwords removed. (multi language capable)
• Automated description generation.
• Automated meta title capitalisation excluding small words (multi language capable)
• Highly efficient system using 2 queries maximum and none after cache load. ( so ideal even for the biggest shops )
• Modern PHP 5.2/5.3 code
• Error free with no deprecated code ( even on high error reporting E_ALL | E_STRICT )
• Perfect for small and large shops ( due to efficiency )
• No complex manual "fiddling" required. ( works out of the box )
• HTML/XHTML output. ( easy to validate )
• Performance output for testing & development ( or just to exemplify efficiency )

Extra features: ( requires additional install )

• Admin based settings ( database install )
• SEO Category content. Text content for every category page. ( also used in meta tags )
• SEO Manufacturers content. Text content for every manufacturers page. ( also used in meta tags )
• H1 tagged SEO automatic page titles. ( to your specified length )

]]> Sat, 16 Jan 2010 21:32:24 +0000 57 osCommerce RC2a PHP 5.3 Patches

Over the past few days I have been working through osCommerce's repository collating all the PHP 5.3 patches for my RC2a based store, in preparation for my host moving onto PHP 5.3.x

This is not a "contribution" as such, more a collated file-set and instruction sheet of what is already publically available on github. I thought that collating these files may help those who are not familiar with github, or prefer a "standard" drop-on-top or instruction sheet scenario.

Contained within the .zip file is both a drop on top folder and a read_me folder with instructions on how to change both *catalog* and admin files (I have split the instructions over two pages to reduce it's size).

If anyone has any further instances that need to be changed, (or if I have forgotten anything!) please do post your findings in this thread.

Good luck,
James

A NEW file has been added to reflect incorrect instructions for CATALOG changes, as brought to my attention in the forum thread (thanks Coopco)

A NEW file - v1.2 has been added to reflect the omission of both *catalog*/includes/functions/general.php and *catalog*/admin/includes/functions/general.php. Both the drop on top folder and instructions have been amended as well as an included upgrade guide. Thanks to Ken for bringing this to my attention.]]> Thu, 14 Jan 2010 21:58:33 +0000 56 This module has been used on live shop to process over 100 orders. It works.
Paymentech Documentation Enclosed as well.

I cant offer much support on this module other than to say that it worked a year ago. Maybe it will work for you too.]]> Thu, 17 Sep 2009 08:11:44 +0100 55 Why not? Has a lot of extra buttons than the default admin and comes with PSD. Thu, 17 Sep 2009 08:07:12 +0100 54 Another button set, black and sleek with bimini text. PSD included Thu, 17 Sep 2009 07:58:17 +0100 53 Just a button set I had from sometime ago, no PSD available, maybe it will help someones shop finish its look. Thu, 17 Sep 2009 07:52:07 +0100 52
WC3 HTML 4 Valid.]]> Wed, 09 Sep 2009 04:37:35 +0100 50 This is simply a set of XML sitemap files. They end with .php but generate xml. I have included, sitemap_index, which all other contributions lack, categories, products, topics, and articles. I know their are several available already, but these are very simple, fast loading and can easily be expanded. Tue, 08 Sep 2009 21:17:08 +0100 49