CubeCart and Wordpress Integration
Following my 100% CubeCart orientated posts, here's another late night hack.
It integrates a Wordpress blog into your store's homepage.
You need a working Wordpress installation to start with, I installed mine in the standard /wordpress/ folder, none of your customers will see it anyway.
Flashy CubeCart errors
Since CC4 already uses script.aculo.us for Lightbox2 (for viewing images), it is fairly easy to add effects to other areas of the site.
For example, the notice that says "Product options must be selected before this item can be added to the basket." can be tarted up very easily.
CubeCart – Product Thumbnail in viewProd.tpl
Here's something that bugged me for a while. I'm working on an alternative image viewer for CC4, I don't like the old style pop up window and I don't think LightBox is really suitable.
Anyway, I needed the original product thumbnail visible on the view product page along with the additional images.
Here's how it's done.
FuzzyOCR inspired PDF scanning for SpamAssassin
I've just stumbled over a PDF scanning engine for SpamAssassin. In light of the recent PDF spam making it's way round the internet I figured I'd give it a try.
This plug in scans the PDF pdf body and embedded images. Great, huh?
Here's how I did it.
cubecartservices.biz
I'd like to extend my thanks to SemperFi over at cubecartservices.biz for fantastic work on converting Notifications Via SMS - Clickatell Edition to CubeCart version 4.
Estelle’s Mod Store
I've recently had the pleasure of dealing with Estelle Winterflood, owner of Estelle's Mod Store.
She has a massive range of mods for CubeCart 3
FuzzyOCR for SpamAssassin on Ubuntu
FuzzyOCR is a plugin for SpamAssassin that analyzes the content and properties of images to distinguish between normal mail and spam.
I've been running it on some mail servers for a few months now and I'm very happy with the results.
WebSite Law
A lot of my clients lack certain legal documents that they really should be displaying on their websites.
No one can or wants to write them, so I turn to WebSite Law for a free comprehensive set of documents.
CubeCheck
Here's a a great freeware system tray program to monitor for new shopping cart sales.
It's small utility that requires no modifications to your shopping cart software or underlying database.
Really freakin’ simple mysql virtual hosting pure-ftpd
This article will guide you through installing pure-ftpd configured for virtual hosts using mysql as the authentication mechanism. It assumes you have a functioning Linux server running mysql already.