OSCommerce 2.2 rc2a - ADMINISTRATION TOOL DISPLAY

brendonuk · September 22, 2008

Hi All

Having downloaded oscommerce-2.2rc2a.zip (see http://www.oscommerce.com/solutions/downloads) and made a fresh installation of OSCommerce 2.2 rc2a (as following documentation.pdf that comes with the zip file), I do not get the expected blue screen admin panel as below:

It seems to me that the actual php file catalog/admin/index.php is coded to display the customer and orders modules as found at catalog\admin\includes\modules\index, thus giving an admin panel that looks like:

I have found the catalog/admin/index.php files of earlier versions and the code is very different and includes a $cat variable. To be thorough with this, here is the older version that would appear to give the expected blue screen admin panel (see below)

Personally, I believe that all new installations will have the second (unexpected) display of customers and orders instead of the blue screen admin panel (first picture) as advertised on the OSCommerce screenshots page.

IF ANYONE BELIEVES IT IS A SIMPLE INSTALLATION ERROR, PLEASE LET ME KNOW THE FIX!! But the installation process is very intelligent, detecting correct server settings and installation settings (so it is quite idiot proof.) But perhaps I am missing something very simple!!

Anyway, here is the older version of the admin/index.php code vs the latest 2.2 rc2a version:

===================== OLDER VERSION 1.19 =================================================

<?php

/*

$Id: index.php,v 1.19 2003/06/27 09:38:31 dgw_ Exp $

osCommerce, Open Source E-Commerce Solutions

http://www.oscommerce.com

Released under the GNU General Public License

*/

require('includes/application_top.php');

$cat = array(array('title' => BOX_HEADING_CONFIGURATION,

'image' => 'configuration.gif',

'href' => tep_href_link(FILENAME_CONFIGURATION, 'selected_box=configuration&gID=1'),

'children' => array(array('title' => BOX_CONFIGURATION_MYSTORE, 'link' => tep_href_link(FILENAME_CONFIGURATION, 'selected_box=configuration&gID=1')),

array('title' => BOX_CONFIGURATION_LOGGING, 'link' => tep_href_link(FILENAME_CONFIGURATION, 'selected_box=configuration&gID=10')),

array('title' => BOX_CONFIGURATION_CACHE, 'link' => tep_href_link(FILENAME_CONFIGURATION, 'selected_box=configuration&gID=11')))),

array('title' => BOX_HEADING_MODULES,

'image' => 'modules.gif',

'href' => tep_href_link(FILENAME_MODULES, 'selected_box=modules&set=payment'),

'children' => array(array('title' => BOX_MODULES_PAYMENT, 'link' => tep_href_link(FILENAME_MODULES, 'selected_box=modules&set=payment')),

array('title' => BOX_MODULES_SHIPPING, 'link' => tep_href_link(FILENAME_MODULES, 'selected_box=modules&set=shipping')))),

array('title' => BOX_HEADING_CATALOG,

'image' => 'catalog.gif',

'href' => tep_href_link(FILENAME_CATEGORIES, 'selected_box=catalog'),

'children' => array(array('title' => CATALOG_CONTENTS, 'link' => tep_href_link(FILENAME_CATEGORIES, 'selected_box=catalog')),

array('title' => BOX_CATALOG_MANUFACTURERS, 'link' => tep_href_link(FILENAME_MANUFACTURERS, 'selected_box=catalog')))),

array('title' => BOX_HEADING_LOCATION_AND_TAXES,

'image' => 'location.gif',

'href' => tep_href_link(FILENAME_COUNTRIES, 'selected_box=taxes'),

'children' => array(array('title' => BOX_TAXES_COUNTRIES, 'link' => tep_href_link(FILENAME_COUNTRIES, 'selected_box=taxes')),

array('title' => BOX_TAXES_GEO_ZONES, 'link' => tep_href_link(FILENAME_GEO_ZONES, 'selected_box=taxes')))),

array('title' => BOX_HEADING_CUSTOMERS,

'image' => 'customers.gif',

'href' => tep_href_link(FILENAME_CUSTOMERS, 'selected_box=customers'),

'children' => array(array('title' => BOX_CUSTOMERS_CUSTOMERS, 'link' => tep_href_link(FILENAME_CUSTOMERS, 'selected_box=customers')),

array('title' => BOX_CUSTOMERS_ORDERS, 'link' => tep_href_link(FILENAME_ORDERS, 'selected_box=customers')))),

array('title' => BOX_HEADING_LOCALIZATION,

'image' => 'localization.gif',

'href' => tep_href_link(FILENAME_CURRENCIES, 'selected_box=localization'),

'children' => array(array('title' => BOX_LOCALIZATION_CURRENCIES, 'link' => tep_href_link(FILENAME_CURRENCIES, 'selected_box=localization')),

array('title' => BOX_LOCALIZATION_LANGUAGES, 'link' => tep_href_link(FILENAME_LANGUAGES, 'selected_box=localization')))),

array('title' => BOX_HEADING_REPORTS,

'image' => 'reports.gif',

'href' => tep_href_link(FILENAME_STATS_PRODUCTS_PURCHASED, 'selected_box=reports'),

'children' => array(array('title' => REPORTS_PRODUCTS, 'link' => tep_href_link(FILENAME_STATS_PRODUCTS_PURCHASED, 'selected_box=reports')),

array('title' => REPORTS_ORDERS, 'link' => tep_href_link(FILENAME_STATS_CUSTOMERS, 'selected_box=reports')))),

array('title' => BOX_HEADING_TOOLS,

'image' => 'tools.gif',

'href' => tep_href_link(FILENAME_BACKUP, 'selected_box=tools'),

'children' => array(array('title' => TOOLS_BACKUP, 'link' => tep_href_link(FILENAME_BACKUP, 'selected_box=tools')),

array('title' => TOOLS_BANNERS, 'link' => tep_href_link(FILENAME_BANNER_MANAGER, 'selected_box=tools')),

array('title' => TOOLS_FILES, 'link' => tep_href_link(FILENAME_FILE_MANAGER, 'selected_box=tools')))));

$languages = tep_get_languages();

$languages_array = array();

$languages_selected = DEFAULT_LANGUAGE;

for ($i = 0, $n = sizeof($languages); $i < $n; $i++) {

$languages_array[] = array('id' => $languages[$i]['code'],

'text' => $languages[$i]['name']);

if ($languages[$i]['directory'] == $language) {

$languages_selected = $languages[$i]['code'];

}

?>

<!doctype html public "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN">

<head>

a { color:#ffcc33; text-decoration:none; }

a:hover { color:#ffcc33; text-decoration:underline; }

a.text:link, a.text:visited { color: #ffcc33; text-decoration: none; }

a:text:hover { color: #ffcc33; text-decoration: underline; }

a.main:link, a.main:visited { color: #ffcc33; text-decoration: none; }

A.main:hover { color: #ffcc33; text-decoration: underline; }

a.sub:link, a.sub:visited { color: #ffcc33; text-decoration: none; }

A.sub:hover { color: #ffcc33; text-decoration: underline; }

.heading { font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 20px; font-weight: bold; line-height: 1.5; color: #ffcc33; }

.main { font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 17px; font-weight: bold; line-height: 1.5; color: #ffcc33; }

.sub { font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; font-weight: bold; line-height: 1.5; color: #ffcc33; }

.text { font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; font-weight: bold; line-height: 1.5; color: #ffcc33; }

.menuBoxHeading { font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; color: #ffcc33; font-weight: bold; background-color: #ffffcc; border-color: #ffffcc; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px; }

.infoBox { font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 10px; color: #ffcc33; background-color: #fffffcc; border-color: #ffcc33; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px; }

.smallText { font-family: Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 10px; }

//--></style>

</head>

<tr>

<td align="right" class="text" nowrap><?php echo '<a href="' . tep_href_link(FILENAME_DEFAULT) . '">' . HEADER_TITLE_ADMINISTRATION . '</a> | <a href="' . tep_catalog_href_link() . '">' . HEADER_TITLE_ONLINE_CATALOG . '</a> | <a href="http://www.oscommerce.com" target="_blank">' . HEADER_TITLE_SUPPORT_SITE . '</a>'; ?> </td>

</tr>

<tr>

<?php

$heading = array();

$contents = array();

$heading[] = array('params' => 'class="menuBoxHeading"',

'text' => 'osCommerce');

$contents[] = array('params' => 'class="infoBox"',

'text' => '<a href="http://www.oscommerce.com" target="_blank">' . BOX_ENTRY_SUPPORT_SITE . '</a><br>' .

'<a href="http://www.oscommerce.com/forums" target="_blank">' . BOX_ENTRY_SUPPORT_FORUMS . '</a><br>' .

'<a href="http://www.oscommerce.com/community/contributions" target="_blank">' . BOX_ENTRY_CONTRIBUTIONS . '</a>');

$box = new box;

echo $box->menuBox($heading, $contents);

echo '<br>';

$orders_contents = '';

$orders_status_query = tep_db_query("select orders_status_name, orders_status_id from " . TABLE_ORDERS_STATUS . " where language_id = '" . $languages_id . "'");

while ($orders_status = tep_db_fetch_array($orders_status_query)) {

$orders_pending_query = tep_db_query("select count(*) as count from " . TABLE_ORDERS . " where orders_status = '" . $orders_status['orders_status_id'] . "'");

$orders_pending = tep_db_fetch_array($orders_pending_query);

$orders_contents .= '<a href="' . tep_href_link(FILENAME_ORDERS, 'selected_box=customers&status=' . $orders_status['orders_status_id']) . '">' . $orders_status['orders_status_name'] . '</a>: ' . $orders_pending['count'] . '<br>';

}

$orders_contents = substr($orders_contents, 0, -4);

$heading = array();

$contents = array();

$heading[] = array('params' => 'class="menuBoxHeading"',

'text' => BOX_TITLE_ORDERS);

$contents[] = array('params' => 'class="infoBox"',

'text' => $orders_contents);

$box = new box;

echo $box->menuBox($heading, $contents);

echo '<br>';

$customers_query = tep_db_query("select count(*) as count from " . TABLE_CUSTOMERS);

$customers = tep_db_fetch_array($customers_query);

$products_query = tep_db_query("select count(*) as count from " . TABLE_PRODUCTS . " where products_status = '1'");

$products = tep_db_fetch_array($products_query);

$reviews_query = tep_db_query("select count(*) as count from " . TABLE_REVIEWS);

$reviews = tep_db_fetch_array($reviews_query);

$heading = array();

$contents = array();

$heading[] = array('params' => 'class="menuBoxHeading"',

'text' => BOX_TITLE_STATISTICS);

$contents[] = array('params' => 'class="infoBox"',

'text' => BOX_ENTRY_CUSTOMERS . ' ' . $customers['count'] . '<br>' .

BOX_ENTRY_PRODUCTS . ' ' . $products['count'] . '<br>' .

BOX_ENTRY_REVIEWS . ' ' . $reviews['count']);

$box = new box;

echo $box->menuBox($heading, $contents);

echo '<br>';

$contents = array();

if (getenv('HTTPS') == 'on') {

$size = ((getenv('SSL_CIPHER_ALGKEYSIZE')) ? getenv('SSL_CIPHER_ALGKEYSIZE') . '-bit' : '<i>' . BOX_CONNECTION_UNKNOWN . '</i>');

$contents[] = array('params' => 'class="infoBox"',

'text' => tep_image(DIR_WS_ICONS . 'locked.gif', ICON_LOCKED, '', '', 'align="right"') . sprintf(BOX_CONNECTION_PROTECTED, $size));

} else {

$contents[] = array('params' => 'class="infoBox"',

'text' => tep_image(DIR_WS_ICONS . 'unlocked.gif', ICON_UNLOCKED, '', '', 'align="right"') . BOX_CONNECTION_UNPROTECTED);

}

$box = new box;

echo $box->tableBlock($contents);

?>

</td>

</tr>

</table></td>

<tr>

</form></tr>

</table></td>

</tr>

<?php

$col = 2;

$counter = 0;

for ($i = 0, $n = sizeof($cat); $i < $n; $i++) {

$counter++;

if ($counter < $col) {

echo ' <tr>' . "\n";

}

echo ' <td><table border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="2">' . "\n" .

' <tr>' . "\n" .

' <td><a href="' . $cat[$i]['href'] . '">' . tep_image(DIR_WS_IMAGES . 'categories/' . $cat[$i]['image'], $cat[$i]['title'], '32', '32') . '</a></td>' . "\n" .

' <td><table border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="2">' . "\n" .

' <tr>' . "\n" .

' <td class="main"><a href="' . $cat[$i]['href'] . '" class="main">' . $cat[$i]['title'] . '</a></td>' . "\n" .

' </tr>' . "\n" .

' <tr>' . "\n" .

' <td class="sub">';

$children = '';

for ($j = 0, $k = sizeof($cat[$i]['children']); $j < $k; $j++) {

$children .= '<a href="' . $cat[$i]['children'][$j]['link'] . '" class="sub">' . $cat[$i]['children'][$j]['title'] . '</a>, ';

}

echo substr($children, 0, -2);

echo '</td> ' . "\n" .

' </tr>' . "\n" .

' </table></td>' . "\n" .

' </tr>' . "\n" .

' </table></td>' . "\n";

if ($counter >= $col) {

echo ' </tr>' . "\n";

$counter = 0;

}

?>

</table></td>

</tr>

</table></td>

</tr>

</table></td>

</tr>

<tr>

</tr>

</table></td>

</tr>

</table>

</body>

</html>

================================================================================

=========

The latest 2.2 rc2a version is as follows and shows substantial omissions of php code. (Inspection shows how the customer and orders modules

will replace the blue screen display)

================================================================================

=========

<?php

/*

$Id: index.php 1739 2007-12-20 00:52:16Z hpdl $

osCommerce, Open Source E-Commerce Solutions

http://www.oscommerce.com

Released under the GNU General Public License

*/

require('includes/application_top.php');

$languages = tep_get_languages();

$languages_array = array();

$languages_selected = DEFAULT_LANGUAGE;

for ($i = 0, $n = sizeof($languages); $i < $n; $i++) {

$languages_array[] = array('id' => $languages[$i]['code'],

'text' => $languages[$i]['name']);

if ($languages[$i]['directory'] == $language) {

$languages_selected = $languages[$i]['code'];

}

?>

<!doctype html public "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN">

<head>

</head>

<?php require(DIR_WS_INCLUDES . 'header.php'); ?>

<tr>

<td width="<?php echo BOX_WIDTH; ?>" valign="top"><table border="0" width="<?php echo BOX_WIDTH; ?>" cellspacing="1" cellpadding="1" class="columnLeft">

<?php require(DIR_WS_INCLUDES . 'column_left.php'); ?>

</table></td>

<tr>

<tr>

</tr>

</table></td>

</tr>

<tr>

<?php

$file_extension = substr($PHP_SELF, strrpos($PHP_SELF, '.'));

$files = array();

if ($dir = @dir(DIR_FS_ADMIN . 'includes/modules/index')) {

while ($file = $dir->read()) {

if (!is_dir($module_directory . $file)) {

if (substr($file, strrpos($file, '.')) == $file_extension) {

$files[] = $file;

}

sort($files);

$dir->close();

}

$col = 0;

for ($i=0, $n=sizeof($files); $i<$n; $i++) {

if (file_exists(DIR_WS_LANGUAGES . $language . '/modules/index/' . $files[$i])) {

include(DIR_WS_LANGUAGES . $language . '/modules/index/' . $files[$i]);

}

if ($col < 1) {

echo ' <tr>' . "\n";

}

$col++;

if ($col <= 2) {

echo ' <td width="50%" valign="top">' . "\n";

}

include('includes/modules/index/' . $files[$i]);

if ($col <= 2) {

echo ' </td>' . "\n";

}

if ( !isset($files[$i+1]) || ($col == 2) ) {

if ( !isset($files[$i+1]) && ($col == 1) ) {

echo ' <td width="50%" valign="top"> </td>' . "\n";

}

$col = 0;

echo ' </tr>' . "\n";

}

?>

</table></td>

</tr>

</table></td>

</tr>

</table>

<?php require(DIR_WS_INCLUDES . 'footer.php'); ?>

<br>

</body>

</html>

<?php require(DIR_WS_INCLUDES . 'application_bottom.php'); ?>

================================================================================

====

PLEASE HELP !!

September 22, 2008

You are talking about the admin of the pre RC versions of osc.

brendonuk · September 22, 2008

You are talking about the admin of the pre RC versions of osc.

Hi there

Thanks for your answer Coopco, but I am still a little confused as to why the latest RC versions (RC2a) have abandoned this blue screen admin panel:

I was suggesting the reason for the Blue Screen Admin Panel not showing on the 2.2 RC2a version had to do with a differently coded admin/index.php file that now picks up customer and orders from admin/includes/modules/index/. Changes to the admin/index.php page looks like an intentional abandonment (by the OScommerce team) of the old blue panel for a list of recent customer orders.

And your answer does seem to imply that the blue screen admin panel was abandoned for RC versions. I would agree with you here as I can't see how the admin/index.php of the RC2a version could generate anything other than the list of customers and orders (see below) that are show in the admin/index.php page that I get:

So, this is fine. At least one person agrees with me! But what confuses me is the the OSCommerce screenshots of the product seem to suggest that all versions should get the blue screen admin panel. HAS ANYONE SEARCHED FOR A FIX THAT GIVES THE OLD BLUE SCREEN ADMIN PANEL

So I now have the following questions:

1) Where does it tell us in the documentation that OScommerce decided to scrap blue screen admin panel for the new RC version?

2) Why are there not more people worrying about this anomaly when the OScommerce website clearly displays the expected blue admin panel screenshot?

As far as I can see, everyone installing the latest version (ie. RC2a) must be getting the same problem. Yet, I have spent hours trawling through google for a fix or even open ended queries on this problem, but nearly nothing at all (except a few unanswered posts in this forum.)

What we really need is for the OScommerce team to explain why the admin panel has been changed. I was going through the CHANGELOG file, but was not having much luck (unless I managed to miss something!)

Any further help would be appreciated!!

burt · September 22, 2008

The documentation is years out of date, past and future. Does that satisfy your knowledge needs ;)

The blue index page on older oscommerce only had a few links in it to other areas of the admin - these links are also available in the side infoboxes.

The new style layout is in my opinion better.

brendonuk · September 22, 2008

The documentation is years out of date, past and future. Does that satisfy your knowledge needs ;)

The blue index page on older oscommerce only had a few links in it to other areas of the admin - these links are also available in the side infoboxes.

The new style layout is in my opinion better.

Burt - Thanks very much for your response.

I agree that the left column of the new admin layout is an improvement. I suppose that I was confused by seeing a list of customers and orders on the admin/index.php page or start page of the admin panel. This did not seem like a normal introduction/start page for the admin panel. However, despite its shortcomings, the old style of navigation links on the older blue screen admin panel seems like a more natural introduction/orientation for administrators arriving in the admin area.

What do you think?

burt · September 22, 2008

I think at the majority of shop owners would rather be easily able to view orders made and new customers that have a blue screen full of links, most of which they would never use...

Thoughts?

brendonuk · September 22, 2008

I think at the majority of shop owners would rather be easily able to view orders made and new customers that have a blue screen full of links, most of which they would never use...

Thoughts?

Agreed... this is the one reason that justified it. Thanks for your help. :)

I just think that the main site should update its screenshots!! LOL

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