rustybolt Posted January 27, 2006 Posted January 27, 2006 Hi all, im new to this forum so go gently! Basically ive built an online webshop for my employer using Actinic. Now ive found this easy to use but im totally unhappy with how it looks so have decided to look at other e-commerce products and noticed a website that i use uses osCommerce and loved how it looks/navigates. Ive downloaded and installed easy PHP and managed to install osCommerce locally and am looking to build a site using it. Actinic is an exe so its pretty straight forward but im a total newbie to this database driven stuff and would like some advice if poss. 1. The user name is ROOT and server LOCALHOST, how do i change these so that the admin panel is secure with a password, i have webspace available but want to develop it locally until its ready. 2. When it asked where sessions are to be saved ive clicked in the database, is this correct and what does this mean exactly. 3. Im wanting to add 3 currencys, GBP, USD & EURO, when i add the GBP and make it default the index page always defaults to USD instead of GBP which is the currency i want to show always. Have i done something wrong. thanks very much for any advice given and keep up the good work Russel
Wendy James Posted January 27, 2006 Posted January 27, 2006 1. Once you are ready to upload the site to your webhost you will need to edit two files. /includes/configure.php and /admin/includes/configure.php A bunch of the info will need to be changed on those pages to reflect the new domain name, storage, and database info. 2. saving them in the database is good... i can't remember exactly why though. lol Faster or something? Less chance of a mess up or a security issue I think... but I could be off. I just know I have always set it that way for every site I have done, and normally see people suggesting that. I think it also stops sites from crossing with other sites if someone is using a shared server or something like that. 3. Go into your admin area and set the language you want to be listed first... the one most people will be using, as the default and it should list it at the top, I believe. Wendy James Creativity is allowing yourself to make mistakes. Art is knowing which ones to keep.
rustybolt Posted January 27, 2006 Author Posted January 27, 2006 anyone else help with the currency issue, and what do i edit once its on a server?
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