Running command on MySQL?

[Guest]

Hi Again,

 

I am thinking about installing a contribution. While I can find the code lines in the various files, I am scratching my head over the directive shown below. Being a newbie, I am just not familiar with the lingo. And I have done very little with SQL other than importing a file into the db.

 

Could someone explain what I am to do here?

 

Thanks, Kathy

 

 

Run the following command on your MySQL database (if you always or almost always charge tax on shipping, you may want to enter a different default value for shipping_tax, ie 16.0000 instead of 0.0000):

 

ALTER TABLE orders ADD shipping_tax DECIMAL( 7, 4 ) DEFAULT '0.000' NOT NULL ;

INSERT into configuration (configuration_id, configuration_title, configuration_key, configuration_value, configuration_description, configuration_group_id, sort_order, last_modified, date_added, use_function, set_function) values ('', 'Order Editor- Display Payment Method dropdown?', 'DISPLAY_PAYMENT_METHOD_DROPDOWN', 'true', 'Display Payment Method in Order Editor as dropdown menu (true) or as input field (false)', '1', '21', NULL, '2006-04-02 11:51:01', NULL, 'tep_cfg_select_option(array(\'true\', \'false\'),');

[choosealogin]

If you can find something called "phpmyadmin" in the control panel that your webhost provides, then this post will help you

 

http://www.oscommerce.com/forums/index.php?sho...p;hl=phpmyadmin

[Jack_mcs]

You need to copy the given command into the SQL window in phpmyadmin. If you are not familiar with that program, you can get a good idea of how to use it from this thread.

 

Jack