Create a gallery in Zencart using your Flickr sets
Zen Cart is great an all but it really doesn’t do image galleries very well. There are some plugins available but to be honest the admin interface is always a bit erm “clonky” in my opinion. Why not use Flickr to serve up your glorious pictures as a gallery?
How to get correct Zen Cart product thumbnail when posting to Facebook [Updated: 26th Aug 13]
When users post a link to your products on Facebook, its nice for the automatic link to show a picture of an actual product. Unfortunately Zen Cart doesn’t have this facility out of the box, but its not too tricky to add it yourself. In your template’s html_header.php add the following lines for all the […]
Surfplugs website launched
We’re excited to announce the launch of our latest website – for Surfplugs www.surfplugs.co.uk. Rob at Surfplugs had wanted to update his site for a while and contacted Adam Wyatt at Flipside studio to produce a fresh new design, with the hope to launch his products internationally. The wireframes for the site showed quite a […]
Zen cart customer login problems
This one had me scratching my head for a while… Built a new Zen Cart site, registered as a customer and added some products to my cart. All fine until I try to checkout, when I just get redirected to the home page after re-entering my credentials. Occasionally I’d get the ‘whoops, session expired’ message, […]
Sage Pay: Error 3085 : The FailureURL format is invalid.
Just a quick one.If you ever receive this error when trying to put a purchase through via SagePay, dont spend hours wondering whats wrong with your FailureURL. Its nothing to do with that in most cases.Double check that the Encryption Password you are using in your system is exactly the same as the one supplied […]