NancyL7

That is how I added it. There didn't seem to be an admin portion to enter these amounts. However, I found entering through the database much faster. -Nancy

Hi all, In the Admin/Shipping&Packing display there is a option: "When to send the Vendor Email" with choices of Catalog/Admin/Both/Not at all The comments say to look in the readme.txt for descriptions, but I've looked in readme.txt and usage.. but can't seem to find a definition of what each option means. Does anyone know? I'm trying to get the Vendor email working in my store.. I've set some of the vendors to receive emails and some not.. and all based on a certain "status" of the order. It doesn't seem to be working.. I thought this field might be the problem. Any clues? Thanks Nancy

Hi all, I've a new vendor that gives free shipping for tangible products. I'm racking my brain to remember how this is done in MVS?! Can anyone refresh my overworked but undersized memory? Thanks, Nancy

Thanks! I'll try it!

Thanks Steve, Turning that attribute on prevented the 'carts' and the session Ids.. which allows me to tell which connections are spiders and which are customers. Q: (if I may) Is it a normal for the yahoo slurp spider and the google bots to sit on your site 24x7? If they do, is that a good thing or not? Google is on there about 3/4 of the time, and yahoo has at least 1 connection all the time. Should this concern me? Thanks!! Nancy

Actually, I did not have prevent spider sessions set to true (I'm rather red-faced right now). Thank you for pointing this out. I set this up before ever I opened my store, but didn't know much about osC (still don't, but getting better). Thanks for your help! Nancy

yippee.. I figured out where to find the answer! Yes, it does.. here is a paste of one of them: 74.6.74.31 - - [11/Dec/2006:15:09:38 -0600] "GET /products_new.php?action=buy_now&products_id=219&osCsid=f56ba6b26df5bafbf65ddae3118e7f88 HTTP/1.0" 302 0 "-" "Mozilla/5.0 (compatible; Yahoo! Slurp; http://help.yahoo.com/help/us/ysearch/slurp)" Incidentally, the number of connections has gone down.. I now only have 4, but their carts have grown - and one now contains 26 items! Thanks, Nancy

Hi Jim! Thanks for this. I installed it and now my handling charges are added in! One other problem I found, however.. When I try to change/add the handling charge from the admin under Vendors/manage.... it doesn't update the database. I had to make the changes to the database manually. Perhaps, I missed something in the install? But, the essentials are working!!! Thanks!!!!!!

Ok, I need help finding the 'access.log' -Nancy

Hello, Newbie here....... but, I'm getting a lot of hits from 74.6.86.148 74.6.66.51 74.6.73.248 74.6.86.148 74.6.87.103 and so on The network id says it is the Inktomi Corporation (from domain dossier) These connections are constant, make huge guest carts, and the connections are multiplying. I now have 6 Is this a spider? I am using your spiders_large.txt in my site (renamed of course) but it is not preventing this. Is this an 'ok' connection, or something I should worry about? It seems to be cycling through all my products, over and over. Anyone have advice? Thanks, Nancy

Hello all, I added the IP Recording contribution, and it works great, for everything but Paypal IPN transactions, which is, of course, 98% of my transactions!! I think it is because the transaction is recorded in advance from the paypal_ipn.php.confirmation() function and does not run the code in checkout_process.php which inserts the ip addresses into the table. I have tried to rerun the "get ip addy" code in the paypal_ipn.php.confirmation() function, but it errors out. I tried adding the fields to the insert array, but they remain blank (not passed or global) So, I'm wondering how to pass this infomation to paypal_ipn.php.confirmation(), so I add the info to the sql insert..... I thought the easiest way would be to declare $ip adn $isp as global values and setting them, so they'll be available, but that may cause problems during a busy time.. overwriting, etc. I'd like to be able to store the ip and isp for each order.. Does anyone have suggestion??? Thanks -Nancy

Hi all, I'm showing my newbie-ness to this whole genre here.. but, I'm really wondering: What is the difference between *_thc_desc_tag and *_htc_description in both the categories and manufacturers tag fields? Thanks so much for your help - everyone!! -Nancy

Hi all, I just found out that my handling fee for individual vendors, isn't being added into the shipping charge. Has anyone come across a fix for this?? Thanks Nancy

Ok, ignore this. I meant this as a reply, and hit the wrong key... doh!!