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Being new to carts, I am messing with several including AgoraCart. I am enjoying the ability to edit the look and feel of the AgoraCart.
If one of the experts could look at the following:
http://clutchunlimited and http://clutchunlimited/shoppingcart
you will see the beginning of the site. I have integrated the look of the
header and footer ok.
I have not deleted the Catagories Html and Perl from the left column, but as one can see have added other catagories. The question now is:
In the store manager, their is the ability to add products....I can find that..
But I cannot find the add and modify catagory page. So how do we find that? And can I like the gif's I have placed in the column as the text is linked to the products?

Thanks for your help
Ed

The category is set up by each product added to the database. Just hard code the URL to each category.
Categories are then called using a URL like this:
"agora.cgi?product=category_name"

There aren't any category pages....unless you greate them and put them in the html/pages directory and call them like so:
"agora.cgi?page=category.html"

HTH!


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hell-o
if you're talking about editing existing products/categories then click on the edit products in the store manager. you can also delete products with the delete products link.
if you're talking about the area the products are displayed in the store then you have to edit the store/html/html-templates/productPage.inc file.
if you're talking about the page displayed when you land on agora.cgi then you need to edit the store/html/index.html file.
when linking to your home page (the default page for your domain name) you shouldn't link to home.html you should either link to the index.html or http://www.domain.com/ this is actually prefereable over index.html.

to use your java mouseover for categories you might do something like this for pages in the public_html linking to your product category in your store...

<A HREF="shoppingcart/agora.cgi?product=clutches" onMouseOver="imgOn('img2')" onMouseOut="imgOff('img2')">
<IMG NAME="img2" SRC="images/clutches2.gif"; ALT="Clutches" HEIGHT="60"
WIDTH="100" VSPACE="0" HSPACE="0" BORDER="0"></A>


to link within the store...

<A HREF="agora.cgi?cart_id=&product=clutches" onMouseOver="imgOn('img2')" onMouseOut="imgOff('img2')">
<IMG NAME="img2" SRC="../images/clutches2.gif"; ALT="Clutches" HEIGHT="60"
WIDTH="100" VSPACE="0" HSPACE="0" BORDER="0"></A>

notice i dropped the shoppingcart subdirectory from the link. also i added the cart_id= thingie. also i added ../ to the image path. this is shorthand to tell theserver to look back one directory to find the images directory.

the java that is in the head tag in your static pages will have to be hard coded to all html files you use in the store. for dB parsed pages and others you need to add to the freeform logic. there is a topic covering this in this forum. when adding the js to the store files you'll need to change the image path. for example:

img2on = new Image();
img2on.src = "../images/clutches1.gif";

notice i added the ../ the same as i did for the button.
regards,
dan

Thanks so much gang.
Its early am here in Central California. I will continue work on my project this afternoon and let you know the results.
Ed

Dan and Scottcrew,
I am a little embarrassed that while I have found a lot of the working areas of the cart....I still can't do the following:
If you visit the cart site....
http://www.clutchunlimited.com/shoppingcart
you might notice that I have been able to edit the html/index.html ok
But I still can't find my way to where the catagory clutches is found.
I am sure if I could find that folder or directory, I could put the catagory buttons with the rollovers into it as Dan mentioned. But even after printing out the entire directory, I cant find that area. Also, in the html/html-templates, I cant' find the footer with the information Home About us etc
so I can change the color of the font.
I ran a test purchase with the clutches, acura clutch and it went well until
the check out page and there the template changes back to the Powered by Agora Cart header???
The checkout continues with that header, and goes to the submit page.
Then it goes back to page one....and still shows the cart with that one item in it. It does not send the offline order to me.
I know this is a lot....I have upgraded to the lifetime pro so I will be visiting that area now. I hope you can help me out on this.
Dan, I visited your site and think your prices are very good.
Do you sell re-seller packages for web hosting? I have a reasonable deal at this time....but my server doesn't know as much as I do and the server goes down for a few hours about once a month.
Thanks again
Ed

The checkout process utilizes the secure_store_header.inc and secure_store_footer.inc files.
You will need to apply the info you have in the header & footer files to the secure header & footers.

I do know that PropellerHeadHosting has reseller opportunities and Mister Ed is the owner of PropellerHeadHosting & the keeper of the AgoraCart Code.

HTH!


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Hi,
Well, Im really moving along now.Only a few things left to do before really loading the store and getting it live. I found that I can point my buttons to get to products. Clutch button is pointed to link http://www.clutchunlimited.com/shoppingcart/agora.cgi?cart_id=2402507.12955*5G4SL73181113.27749*Zs0ul1&product=Clutches Now the remaining things I need are:
In the Html area of the cart....it is suppose to be in the pages folder...but it is just in the html (shoppingcart/html/return_policy.htm) I see it can be deleted and new .htm run in their place....but how would one delete the duplicate links in the left column and leave the links only in the footer?
Also, how can I make my buttons be the only link to catagories and products and lose the text link?
once again the site is
http://clutchunlimited.com/shoppingcart

First thing, you need to remove the cart_id from the link, all links for that matter. You have the number hard coded, in some of them, so that means everyone that clicks on that link will already have stuff in their cart from the previous visitor.
AgoraCart automatically assigns a unique cart id number to each visitor, but you need to remove that cart_id number from the link.

All of your company information pages, IE: Return_Policy.htm, are to be placed in the 'html' directory.
To remove those company links from the side bar, you will need to remove the following code from the header file:


To remove the product category text links, remove the following code from the header files:


HTH!


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Bonnie,
Everything is working well. Now for the final questions today... LOL
I am not getting pictures of the products to show. On one product the not available gif shows up where it should....am I uploading to the wrong place. I have uploaded in the Deluxe Store manager and also in my own back end. The pics show as being uploaded and I can view inside my cPanel...but nothing when I look at the site. Do the pics need to set to particular size?
I have two clients that I am doing carts for. I am going to get them to put AgoraPay on their sites. When they purchase the gateway...how do I install it. I will be using this gateway and also the PayPal gateway. Any tips are again appreciated. After I get these going, I can spend some time looking into the code and learning more about the project.
Also, now that I have joined lifetime...should I use the other forum?
Ed

You probably haven't put the image file name in the image file name field of the database. Check the product edit of one of the products that you can't see the image for. Look in the upper right area of the form about 3 rows down, do you have an image file name in that field?
If you do, check via FTP to see if the image was even uploaded to the server.

The AgoraPay gateway is already in with the default cart installation. For issues about PayPal, since it is a members only gateway, you would need to post to the other forum.

HTH!


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Bonnie,
Just when I think I have it conquered...bang.
I went in and checked the images....the chmod was only 600
so I changed them to 644 an the images showed up great.
I then tested the cart and all went well. Today however, everything works until I go to the order form...and it goes back to the first page...how could I screw that up? I did nothing I can think of.
I have the buttons going correctly to the products, the cart adds whatever quantity and shows the amount, it says the item is placed in the cart.
But it wont go to the check-out page today...HELP!!
Ed

Check what you have in the Main AgoraCart Store Settings and the Payment Gateway for the secure/SSL URL.
It looks like it is missing the "agora.cgi" on the end of the URL.

HTH!


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Thanks Bonnie
Don't know how I changed that ...but I did
Tell Dan it has taken me more than two weeks to become
an expert in Agora Cart....LOL
Ed

Just 2 weeks?
Your doing good!



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One last question today Bonnie,
After filling in the form and all the credit information and shipping,
verified and with the cutomer number and order number confirmed
it still goes back to page one.....it doesnt ship me the order.
it is set for offline processing until I get all the bugs out
Ed

The "Check Out" link works, the the complete order button does not...
In the cart_footer.inc file, in the html/html-templates directory, try replacing the "Complete Order Button" code:

WITH:


HTH!


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Bonnie,
Stupid me...I did make the change in the Cart_footer.inc are and it didnt do anything ...so I went back to the gateway and saw I had the wrong URL showing...once again....no /agora.cgi at the end. I changed that and all worked well.
Thanks for all you help
Ed