How the cs-cart cart work

Install cs-cart on your server, when you add a product it will use ajax to post the data to the server then get back the new cart information and update the cart, so as we know this, we can easy to use same ajax function to add the cs-cart cart in the wordpress pages by ajax call.

First, we need rip the css of the cart (under the main navigation) to the wordpress , you may need adjust the css so it can looks well in your wordpress blog, then you need add the understand the cs-cart ajax function and write your own ajax function in the wordpress blog,at last test it, all ok , that’s it!!!

see a live sample there :http://www.ebusinesshosting.ca/ , and this is the cs-cart store http://www.ebusinesshosting.ca/store/I will try to make it work as plugin.
To be continued

magento error description

In magento product list page , when select the "Show per page" items , got the error
"There has been an error processing your request
Exception printing is disabled by default for security reasons."
, when this happens , just go to the root/errors
change the local.xml.sample to local.xml .
Refresh the page again , the error become
"Invalid argument supplied for foreach … toolbar.phtml " .

How to fix it

Open app/design/frontend/default/yourtheme/layout/catalog.xml ,add follow line

<block type="page/html_pager" name="product_list_toolbar_pager" template="page/html/pager.phtml" />

after each

<block type="catalog/product_list_toolbar" name="product_list_toolbar" template="catalog/product/list/toolbar.phtml">
</block>

then change each

<action method="setToolbarBlockName"><name>product_list_toolbar</name></action>

to

<action method="setToolbarBlockName"><name>product_list_toolbar_pager</name></action>

After all of this done , just refresh the page , thank god ! It’s work !

Notice

Please make sure disabled all cache when you start work . I also head of some people meet this problem when install magento 1.4 , hope this can help to fix this too but didn’t test . Happy reading !

Update

After post this article , i got same error on shop by brand page , after try many times test , i find a another way : open /public_html/app/code/core/Mage/Catalog/Block/Product/List/Toolbar.php
if you see

class Mage_Catalog_Block_Product_List_Toolbar extends Mage_Core_Block_Template

just change it to

class Mage_Catalog_Block_Product_List_Toolbar extends Mage_Page_Block_Html_Pager

then update the file . Refresh the page then it work .Hope this can help you !!! Happy reading !!!

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if you are not familiar with magento and know php , this is the best and easy way for you to add a contact page with captcha in magento.

What’s needed?

As a contact page , we only need when client submit their information send a email and then if success show a thanks page while not show errors , ask the client to try again . so we need a email script and captcha script . We will use a phpmailer to send email and recaptcha.net captcha .

How it work?

First,we need a email script with phpmailer and register at recaptcha.net to get a public and private key for your magento site .Let’s create a
contact us page and a contact thanks page in magento via magento cms , then put your email script form
in contact us page ,for instance :

<form enctype="multipart/form-data" action="http://yoursite.com/contact.php" method="post" id="form">
<div class="row">
<label>Name:</label>
<input type="text"  name="Name">
</div>
<div class="row">
<label>E-mail:</label>
<input type="text"  name="Email">
</div>
<div class="row">
<label>Fax:</label>
<input type="text"   name="Fax">
</div>
<div class="row">
<label>Message:</label>
<textarea rows="5" name="Message" cols="45"></textarea><br />
<div>
<br />
<script type="text/javascript" src="http://api.recaptcha.net/challenge?k=6Ld_5woAAAAAAK-s6mYybMpCNpL-zwnGeY10idhn" ></script>
<br />
<input type="reset" value="Clear"> &nbsp; <input type="submit" value="Send">
</div>
</div>
 <div class="clear"></div>
</form>

Please take a notice for following codes :

 <script type="text/javascript" src="http://api.recaptcha.net/challenge?k=6Ld_5woAAAAAAK-s6mYybMpCNpL-zwnGeY10idhn" ></script>

You should replace ’6Ld_5woAAAAAAK-s6mYybMpCNpL-zwnGeY10idhn’ with your recaptcha.net public key , that’s use to create the captcha .

Then upload recaptchalib.php and your contact.php which used to process the contact form to your site root directory.the contact page should like :

include_once("phpmailer/class.phpmailer.php");
include_once("phpmailer/class.smtp.php");
include_once("recaptchalib.php");
$privatekey = "6Ld_5woAAAAAAGNVXku4-wDQtvYFUOxeeoPE4Avn";
if ($_POST["recaptcha_response_field"]) {
        $resp = recaptcha_check_answer ($privatekey,
                                        $_SERVER["REMOTE_ADDR"],
                                        $_POST["recaptcha_challenge_field"],
                                        $_POST["recaptcha_response_field"]);
 
        if ($resp->is_valid) {
                                      /*... phpmailer send email script....*/
                                     if($mail->Send())
                                      {
                                          header("Location:http://www.caterline.co.uk/contact-thanks"); 
                                        }
                                      else
                                      {
	                                   echo "this is error when sending email ! <a href='http://www.caterline.co.uk/contactusorm'>try again</a>";
                                        }
                                       /*... phpmailer send email script....*/
                                }
}

You may notice the codes:

$privatekey = "6Ld_5woAAAAAAGNVXku4-wDQtvYFUOxeeoPE4Avn";

yes,you should replace ’6Ld_5woAAAAAAGNVXku4-wDQtvYFUOxeeoPE4Avn’ with your private key . Up to now , all finished . enjoy it !

Online demo

magento contact page with captcha and attachment (phpmailer send mail with attachment):
http://dev.caterequipment.com/contact-us

Download source codes

magento-captcha-contact-form.zip