joongpark Posted December 1, 2002 Posted December 1, 2002 If you visit Oscommerce Demo store under showcase, changes you make to admin demo does not change effect demo catalog. Does anyone know how to do that?
rseigel Posted December 1, 2002 Posted December 1, 2002 As it says on the Showcase page: The Administration Tool is made available in read-only form to prevent possible abuse of the catalog data.
joongpark Posted December 2, 2002 Author Posted December 2, 2002 oops...I was wanting to know if anyone has that feature so I can use it on my site.
rseigel Posted December 2, 2002 Posted December 2, 2002 Now I'm confused. Why don't we start again. What "feature" exactly are you looking for?
joongpark Posted December 2, 2002 Author Posted December 2, 2002 I work for a hosting company and we are planning to install Oscommerce for customers who purchase ecommerce package. I want to put demo of oscommerce on our hosting site. I want visitors to use demo admin to see how what they can do but I do not want them to make all kinds of changes and make a mass. so...I would like visitors to be able to browse and try to change features but I don't want it to take effect just like admin site demo on showcase page.
hobbzilla Posted December 2, 2002 Posted December 2, 2002 Well, you will need to modify the database functions so that you do not issue "UPDATE" commands. You might also want to make sure that the e-mail functions don't work either! :) How to do this? It could be a little challenging if you don't know what you are doing!! Perhaps a more simplistic method might be to create a user for mySQL that only has SELECT privleges. The errors upon trying to modify the database through the admin tool won't be pretty (by default) but it should do the trick (still need to modify the e-mail functionality though.. stop spammers!)
joongpark Posted December 2, 2002 Author Posted December 2, 2002 Thanks for your reply. I do know little about SQL and PHP. I was hoping some already has this feature made so I won't have to do it from scratch...if I do this, I will share it so people don't have to spend ours doing it again. Anyone has anymore tips or instructions? I would appreciate it. Thanks.
joongpark Posted December 2, 2002 Author Posted December 2, 2002 How is this done? This admin page does not allow any changes to me made..you can only browse...this is exactly what I need. does anyone know? Thanks. http://www.oscommerce.com/osCommerce/admin/
joongpark Posted December 2, 2002 Author Posted December 2, 2002 Someone gave me a great idea...create second database and install another admin without catalog. connect second admin to second database and let people change as much as they like since it won't change look of the the first catalog. Only problem for me is my hosting company only allows 1 DB only. Any other solution for this? Thanks.
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