How to Close or Open Your ocPortal Website

Last Updated on Tuesday, 23 April 2013 03:52 Written by Steve Jarvis Thursday, 25 April 2013 12:00

Whether your site is new and you want to close it while you are creating it, or you want to close your site while performing maintenance or completing a site redesign. You may want to open your site after either of these tasks. You may also want to set bandwidth or user limits on your site.

The first part of the process is exactly the same whichever of these tasks you want to perform. These are:

Join the Silex community

Last Updated on Monday, 18 February 2013 04:30 Written by Antonin Tuesday, 19 February 2013 12:00

How to Comment your Code in OpenCart

Last Updated on Monday, 4 February 2013 03:22 Written by Joe Stenhouse Tuesday, 12 February 2013 12:00

It is inevitable that if you spend enough time within the OpenCart framework you will end up writing some of your own customizations, especially if you plan on extending the default installation. There is nothing worse than making a ton of customizations and not remembering where they are later on. In PHP there are a couple of ways to comment your code so it will be easily seen and “marked” if you will, allowing you to find it later. This is especially helpful with files that have a thousand + lines of code. Sometimes, if you aren’t used to looking at PHP it can all start the look the same. For this article we will comment some custom code within the following file: catalog/controller/product/product.php which is a control file.

Today we will simulate adding a couple variables to be echoed on to the product.tpl page. The product.tpl is a VIEW file and is better known as Opencart’s Product Details Page. In

How to Configure SSL in OpenCart

Last Updated on Wednesday, 6 February 2013 07:40 Written by Joe Stenhouse Friday, 1 February 2013 12:00

Before or after reading this article, I recommend you read this article as well. It deals with basic questions about SSL and eCommerce.  This article will describe how to choose and configure and SSL certificate for Opencart. In truth, this article really should be about configuring an SSL on a particular server management system such as cPanel, Plesk, or WHM because really all you are doing in Opencart is “turning it on” in a sense.

Choosing between Shared SSL & Private SSL

How to Delete from the Cart in OpenCart

Last Updated on Monday, 31 December 2012 12:01 Written by Joe Stenhouse Monday, 31 December 2012 12:00

In a previous article we explained how the update function works for Opencart’s shopping cart. In this article we will describe how the DELETE function works if you should have the need to delete an item from your shopping cart.  A page that you can perform this edit would be the main shopping cart page located at index.php?route=checkout/cart

The Cart Array