Using a contribution

[RCSN]

I am not a programmer. I am a Finance Manager of a very small non-profit who wants to make our publications available on the web and accept contributions. This is a horrendous amount of work for such a small need. But I am struggling on. I have found two contributions that I can use. One of them involves copying two php files to two different directories. That's a no-brainer. But the instructions are:

 

Simply copy to the specified directories then enable from admin.

 

I see nothing on Admin that enables php files. What does "enable from admin" mean

 

Is there an instruction that explains how to actually implement these contributions once you get the files to the correct directories?

 

Thanks

Edie

 

PS: I have searched but can't find anything. I've tried several different search terms to no avail.

 

TIA

[Jan Zonjee]

I am a Finance Manager of a very small non-profit who wants to make our publications available on the web and accept contributions.

Exactly the kind of thing that osC does not do out of the box (don't know if there are contributions for this).

One of them involves copying two php files to two different directories. That's a no-brainer. But the instructions are:

 

Simply copy to the specified directories then enable from admin.

 

I see nothing on Admin that enables php files. What does "enable from admin" mean

You make us guess but Payment, Shipping, and Order Total modules (admin->Modules) are "enabled" from the admin. For example a Shipping module: click on "Shipping" in the box Modules and then you get a list of shipping modules that are uploaded to the catalog/includes/modules/shipping/ directory (it also needs a php file of the same name in the directory catalog/includes/languages/english/modules/shipping/ ). Not all modules that are there are used so you have to "INSTALL" them by clicking in the box on the right side when you selected one of the modules. After that in the right side there is a list of things that need to be filled in for proper configuration of that module (which you can after clicking the EDIT button). One of them is (usually) if the module needs to be enabled.

 

There is a wealth of information on how to configure osCommerce in the Knowledge Base (which is for the version 3, currently in alpha but most of the things are still the same in version 2.2).

 

Is there an instruction that explains how to actually implement these contributions once you get the files to the correct directories?

No. Depends on the contribution and the instructions that go with it too. A lot of them make you change code in osCommerce.

[RCSN]

Exactly the kind of thing that osC does not do out of the box (don't know if there are contributions for this).

 

You make us guess but Payment, Shipping, and Order Total modules (admin->Modules) are "enabled" from the admin. For example a Shipping module: click on "Shipping" in the box Modules and then you get a list of shipping modules that are uploaded to the catalog/includes/modules/shipping/ directory (it also needs a php file of the same name in the directory catalog/includes/languages/english/modules/shipping/ ). Not all modules that are there are used so you have to "INSTALL" them by clicking in the box on the right side when you selected one of the modules. After that in the right side there is a list of things that need to be filled in for proper configuration of that module (which you can after clicking the EDIT button). One of them is (usually) if the module needs to be enabled.

 

There is a wealth of information on how to configure osCommerce in the Knowledge Base (which is for the version 3, currently in alpha but most of the things are still the same in version 2.2).

No. Depends on the contribution and the instructions that go with it too. A lot of them make you change code in osCommerce.

Thanks. Makes a lot of sense.

 

I'll keep chugging along.

 

Edie