Technical Articles

A list of technical articles to help developers gain a deeper understanding of how ProductCart works.

• Adding a new payment gateway
• Adjust to non-US local settings for SQL server
• Adjust character-set for multilingual store
• Apparel Add-on: relationship between Parent Products and Sub-Products
• Creating a dealer-only store
• Creating custom pages that use the same store interface (header.asp / footer.asp)
• Creating custom Store Map page that uses your store's true (dynamic) header and footer (header.asp / footer.asp)
• Finding the location of a text string
• How custom search fields are stored
• How shopping cart content is stored
• jQuery: ProductCart and jQuery
• jQuery: changing the color scheme of interface elements
• Tax data files: formatting
• Understanding login.asp
• Understanding how categories are displayed

• Adding the inventory location on the ordered products Pick List
• Adding tracking code to the Order Completion page
• Generating a license for a downloadable product
• Orders: where data is stored
• Orders: where a BTO product configuration is stored
• Order status codes
• When e-mails are sent and how

• Increasing the maximum number of products in the cart array
• Starting a ProductCart session
• Understanding session time-out issues

• Adding your own CSS styles to the built-in HTML Editor
• Successfully adding a Flash animation to the product description

• Apparel Add-on: relationship between Parent Products and Sub-Products
• Build To Order: how configuration prices are stored
• How custom search fields are stored
• How shopping cart content is stored
• Orders: where data is stored
• Orders: where a BTO product configuration is stored

• Code Debugging: how to show raw errors
• Connect to your MS SQL database and run a query
• Properly sanitizing strings in ProductCart
• Securing version 2.x stores
• Guidelines for editing ProductCart's source code and prepare for future updates