Domain Name Registration

[Guest]

Hi guys! This is the first time I "meet" OSCommerce. It seems pretty good. OK, here's the question. I am trying to setup a domain name registration site. Have allready established contact with registrar, have a resseller account and everything. BUT...their system really sucks. For the last week I have been looking for some sort of shopping cart solution for this type of business. Has anyone used OSCommerce for this purpose? Your replies will be appreciated.

 

Thanks

[64sp]

http://www.oscommerce.com/downloads.php/co...ions,431/type,5

 

This is a link to a domain registration contribution. Or find it in OS commerce, downloads, others if the link doesnt work.

 

Claims to use oscommerce to search for and register domain names but I have not used it personally so cant vouch for it.

 

Good luck !

[Guest]

Simon:

 

Thanks! Just one question now. I am pretty new to this whole php thing, so bare with me. The contribution provided says it will work with cvs, what is cvs? Is this some other program?

 

Thanks

[cannuck1964]

Hi, I have sucessfully installed to domain name search contribution. It has serval features which work well, but it does have the side effect of adding in searched names into the store catalog, which will display them in several areas that are not intended to display the domain name.

 

It is currently set up for searching primarily UK addresses but can be changed fairly easy....

 

email me if you have some questions, I might be able to help....

 

the cvs this is a program used to keep track of any changes you make to the project. To use OSC you do not need it, but if you are planning to keep your changes current to the snapshots this is the tool to use....

 

I can not tell you a whole lot about it, but there are serveral good e books available to help out in this as well (or do a search for cvs).

 

cheers

[burt]

Hi, I have sucessfully installed to domain name search contribution. It has serval features which work well, but it does have the side effect of adding in searched names into the store catalog, which will display them in several areas that are not intended to display the domain name.

 

AFAICS it adds them in with a status = 0, so they won't show in a live store...however, it doesn't take long to have a massive list of Domain Names all with a status = 0 in your database, particularly if you've set the mod to lookup multiple domain names in one go...

 

I guess a good addition to this script would be to strip out the Domains that are not needed once the order has gone through. Maybe a simple cron each night would do the trick - I'll try to find time to look into it...

[cannuck1964]

I notice that the domain name addition adds the dot com name into the catalog DB. This stays there even if the customer does not purchase the name. I have noticed that these names are displaying in the new products box. I am sure this is not intended to happen.....

 

Maybe it was my snapshot?

 

I think that either a daily clean up script might do the trick....

 

or even a admin function to do it as often as necessary....

 

or maybe a new table which will keep the data if it is necessary to keep....

 

 

cheers,

[Guest]

cannuck1964:

 

Thanks for your answer. Just another question, I would like to visit the store in which you integrated the domain registration contribution. Could you please "tell me" the url? 8)

[burt]

I notice that the domain name addition adds the dot com name into the catalog DB.  This stays there even if the customer does not purchase the name.  I have noticed that these names are displaying in the new products box.  I am sure this is not intended to happen.....

Ah, I don't use the "whats new" box at all, so wouldn't have noticed that. Thats a real bummer, but I think theres an easy way around that - in the insert SQL set the products_status to 0 straightaway (only then you'll have to allow checkout for out of stock prducts) - but that shouldn't be an issue if you are only selling services...

 

I think that either a daily clean up script might do the trick....

I've written a Cron which works perfectly for me - only problem being that I have re-written much of the code of this Domain Name checker so it will only work on my install...I'll try to get it to work on a clean install of this contribution and then post back to this thread later. Of course only problem there is that you need to have r00t on your box or to have the ability to set up Cron if you are on a Virtual Server - you'll need to have access to Lynx to use it also...

 

Anyway, I'll post it later. :)

[poepoe]

Hi guys,

 

I installed the domain_search contribution, but i'have troubles with the following see below from the read-me file

 

To install, just add the line : define('FILENAME_DOMAIN_SEARCH', 'domain_search1.php'); to your application top file, then place a link to the file in one of your boxes.

 

 

i added it to my application top file but i dont now how and where place the link tot the file in one of your boxex ??

 

i had an error see :

 

Warning: Supplied argument is not a valid File-Handle resource in /home/virtual/site22/fst/var/www/html/catalog/domain_search1.php on line 76

 

 

 

Sorry for my english

 

Thanks,

 

Paul

[burt]

i had an error see :

 

Warning: Supplied argument is not a valid File-Handle resource in /home/virtual/site22/fst/var/www/html/catalog/domain_search1.php on line 76

 

Set CHMOD 777 on counter.dat

 

That should cure your problem.

 

HTH