Articles by " Jack Yin"
Why the product price is always zero in your cart?
By     |    Nov 25, 2012
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Why the product price is always zero in your cart?

Some users reported that the product price stays zero, whether changed or not. Question from the community: Hello I have just one question, if I set my price for the product(the price)is not displayed on the website and in the products list. The product price turns zero Actually, this issue is due to the wrong configuration for the currencies rather than the system bug. Please check your currencies under Admin [...]

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How to assign local images to products?
By     |    Nov 25, 2012
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How to assign local images to products?

This article talks about how to assign images to products from local files in the admin panel->Catalog->Products. Figure 1. The products images tab in admin panel Figure 1 shows what it looks when no local image is selected. It means that you haven’t uploaded any image into file: images/products/_upload directory yet. You could do via ftp or file manager tool in your host cpanel. Figure 2. The _upload directory in [...]

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By     |    Nov 23, 2012
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How to resize site logo in TomatoCart?

Voice from the community: Basically when I try to resize the logo by altering the stylesheet the position doesn’t work and the logo gets cropped and I can’t align it with the left side of the page. Logo size of TomatoCart default template has been 180*150. What if you business already has designed a logo and, unluckily, it looks ugly on the default template? This blog is rightly about adjusting [...]

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By     |    Nov 9, 2012
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The New TomatoCart Template Engine with Twitter Bootstrap

It’s good practice to have a core, underlying CSS definition so that your website appears and acts consistently across all browsers. After long time investigation TomatoCart Team decides to use Twitter Bootstrap as the underlying CSS framework for new TomatoCart template engine. Bootstrap is a HTML5, CSS3 and JavaScript framework that helps simplify the site design and development. It is a responsive framework and it was made work perfect in [...]

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How to use the new configuration – Display products in the subcatalogs recursively in TomatoCart 1.1.8?
By     |    Nov 1, 2012
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How to use the new configuration – Display products in the subcatalogs recursively in TomatoCart 1.1.8?

Since TomatoCart1.1.8, there is one configuration – Display products in the subcatalogs recursively added into the Admin Panel->Configuration->Configuration->My Store. In this article, you will learn how to use this useful configuration. Configuration – Display products in the sub-catalogs recursively Figure 1. The new configuration under Admin Panel->Configuration->Configuration->My Store When you set this configuration to true, it means that the products in the subcategories will be displayed and counted in the [...]

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Why the system can’t send out email via smtp method in TomatoCart?
By     |    Nov 1, 2012
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Why the system can’t send out email via smtp method in TomatoCart?

A few of the TomatoCart users report that their system don’t send out the email automatically as new user or new order was created. After testing the issue on their web server, we got the following as the error message when sending the test e-mail: SMTP -> ERROR: Failed to connect to server: Connection timed out (110) SMTP Error: Could not connect to SMTP host. It means that the web [...]

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How to disable/turn off register_globals for TomatoCart
By     |    Oct 24, 2012
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How to disable/turn off register_globals for TomatoCart

reigter_globals is turned on Some users face the problem as installing the TomatoCart on the host that enable the reigter_globals. This is not a secure PHP configuration and is known to cause issues in TomatoCart. Solution: This is an issue with your host. You can try to resolve it yourself using one of the methods below, but not all web hosts allow you to use these options so you might [...]

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How to strongly enhance the security of TomatoCart 1.1.8?
By     |    Oct 15, 2012
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How to strongly enhance the security of TomatoCart 1.1.8?

This article is written for the TomatoCart users who are using the v1.1.8. If you are using the previous version rather than v1.1.8, please upgrade your system firstly. 1) Download the security patch for TomatoCart v1.1.8 Please download the security patch at here. Once you update your 1.1.8 system with the security patch, it is necessary to add one language definition for the create account section. You just need to [...]

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How to install the AddShoppers Module into TomatoCart1.1.5 – 1.1.7?
By     |    Sep 27, 2012
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How to install the AddShoppers Module into TomatoCart1.1.5 – 1.1.7?

AddShoppers social sharing platform had already integrated with TomatoCart 1.1.8. If you don’t know it, please find more details about addShoppers at http://blog.tomatocart.com/?p=306 This article is written for the users who are still using the old version such as TomatoCart1.1.5, 1.1.6 or 1.1.7. If you wish to integrate the AddShopppers Module into your store, please achieve it as follows: >Download the AddShoppers package Extract the archive contents and copy the [...]

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How to configure TomatoCart to work with SSL
By     |    Sep 19, 2012
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How to configure TomatoCart to work with SSL

Introduction SSL stands for secure sockets layer, it uses a cryptographic system to create a secure connection between client and web server. The SSL protocol is used by millions of online stores to serve three primary functions: Secure private information between the web servers and the customers as they browse the site by using encryption. Secure the administration console so sensitive passwords, credit card numbers, and customer data cannot be [...]

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