lightanother Posted September 30, 2002 Share Posted September 30, 2002 I tried to do some searches for this topic, but too many hits to go through them all. So sorry if this has been talked about before. It would be nice to see a button on the admin side to take the cart system offline and online. With a press of the button, you can bring the cart offline and send users to a "closed for updates" screen. Do some site changes, then click the button to bring the site back online. Just a thought.... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mattice Posted September 30, 2002 Share Posted September 30, 2002 Just change the index.html (.php or whatever) so clients get to see that for the time being. Personally I would not like a button to do this, you'll have a bad day if you forget to put your shop 'on' again :D "Politics is the art of preventing people from taking part in affairs which properly concern them" Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lightanother Posted September 30, 2002 Author Share Posted September 30, 2002 I realize that you can change that, I was looking for an easy way. With the way you mentioned, then you have to upload the file, then upload the file back. That is fine if you are doing page changes, but was looking for something if just changing stock around as well as prices through the admin. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mark Evans Posted September 30, 2002 Share Posted September 30, 2002 It would be nice to see a button on the admin side to take the cart system offline and online. With a press of the button, you can bring the cart offline and send users to a "closed for updates" screen. Do some site changes, then click the button to bring the site back online. That shouldn't be 2 difficult :) Just do a test in header.php and if the store status = 0 then redirect to a plain html page :) Mark Evans osCommerce Monkey & Lead Guitarist for "Sparky + the Monkeys" (Album on sale in all good record shops) --------------------------------------- Software is like sex: It's better when it's free. (Linus Torvalds) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Posted July 7, 2003 Share Posted July 7, 2003 Allow me to outline the issue of offline/online in my case: 1. Not all have broad-band access to the Internet, many have to pay the acess based on time-spent online. This implies that using the Admin part of osCommerce is "costly". 2. Many have an issue on live updates in the online store. "What if I do it wrong, I forget something, I change my mind later on, ...?". Have a way to update the categories and products without "commit" the changes to the live store automatically would be an "ease-of-mind". 3. Using full database backup/restore methods can lead to inconsistences in ordering, stocks and even customer data, unless the store is "frozen" during the update timeframe. Therefore, I see two ways out of this: a) as some of you have stated, "close" the online store during the update period and "open" it again after you're at ease committing the changes. B) have some sort of "freeze" mechanism that keeps the store running as it was before starting to update, do the changes, and "unfreeze" the store. In any case, either some sort of backup and restore is required, to allow for cheaper offline updates. Still, the procedure of gathering vital data (orders, customers, stocks, ...), updating it offline, and restoring it is not well-defined. For this reason I do think that an offline/online feature is necessary. It must be user-friendly (as nearly everything else is in osCommerce), as much as possible automagically and above all practical. I do apoligize for this long post, and maybe with nearly no new info. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Posted July 8, 2003 Share Posted July 8, 2003 Please Mattice, tell me if ou like this: A button to put oof-line the cart system, so if you set the cart off the links and images that "add to cart" will not be published so the catalog stills on-line but the customers can?t by. Ok, it could be done manually but there are a few files to change... I know thta if I put "0" in all products they will not be sold but that?s not the idea.... Another suggestion (maybe I write it later in another topic): Why not to include in the registration the product categories of interest to customize the shop every time a customer signs in. It would be used to customize newslletters too... What do you think about those proposition??? Sorry... I?m not a coder.... I can only modify a few code a layout to my needs.. THANKS AND GREAT JOB!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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