Improved way of getting last Twitter status using SimplePie
On Aug 31st 2010 Twitter changed its way that applications could authenticate with it – it now uses OAuth http://blog.twitter.com/2010/08/twitter-applications-and-oauth.html In a previous post, Display your last tweet using PHP & Twitter APII had suggested use the cURL command in php to send the Twitter username & password to authenticate with the Twitter API to […]
Add a Facebook Like button to individual products in Zen Cart
After being asked by a client to add a Like button to each of her products (like ASOS) and getting confused by Facebook’s documentation on adding custom Like buttons, I stumbled upon this excellent post for how to do it in WordPress:http://www.hyperarts.com/blog/how-to-add-facebook-like-button-social-plugins-to-wordpress-posts/I have adapted it to work with ZenCart 1) Register for an application with […]
How to stop that balloon appearing on embedded Google Maps
Just a quick one.Google Maps is great for embedding a quick map on a Contact Us page – but often the pop-up ballon that appears giving more info about the address can look out of place – especially if the frame you are displaying it in is smaller than the balloon.Its tough to find official […]
Make selecting size attribute compulsory in ZenCart
I love Zencart most of the time – but its implementation of size/colours attributes always causes me headaches.A common request is for the size to be compulsory when adding a product to the basket. But the official Zen cart way of doing it involves a complex process of adding a dummy option to the top […]
10 ZenCart Plugins you really need to install
I’m working on this post to list my favourite plugins that I almost always use on my Zen Cart sites – I’m up to nine at the moment – I’m just working out wihich others are worthy enough to make it into my top ten. Any suggestions? I’d be interested…. 1) Easy Populatehttp://www.zen-cart.com/index.php?main_page=product_contrib_info&products_id=395Allow import of […]