Shopp tags

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> From: Topher Sabot > Date: April 16, 2009 8:15:26 AM EDT > To: justin adkins , Hunter Greene > > Subject: maybe > > could be helpful – you probably already know. I’m working with > Shopp and discovered that there are hardcoded (or at least > dynamically generated)
tags that get written in when using some > of the dynamic template tags. Very annoying – totally defeats the > purpose of css. I was all set to post on the forums asking how to > remove, when I figured out that you can style the
to have a > line-height of 0, therefore eliminating any of the extra space they > were adding. I’m guessing you knew this, but thought I would pass > it on just in case. > > br.clear {line-height: 0; clear: both; padding: 0; margin: 0;}

Mac OS Firefox/Safari Can’t Save Files

If it’s Firefox, then just go to the Firefox menu, then Preferences. Under the Downloads section, make sure ‘Save Files To’ is active, then press the ‘Choose’ button on the right. When the Finder window opens, select ‘Desktop’ on the left.

If it’s Safari, then just go to the Safari menu, the Preferences. Under the ‘Save downloaded files to’ option, select ‘Other’ from the drop-down menu. When the Finder window opens, select ‘Desktop’ on the right.

The problem is that the browser has an incorrectly stored path in its settings & it’s trying to save a file to a location that doesn’t exist – which is simply can’t do. Updating the settings will allow the browser to save the file.

hunter greene Brainspiral Technologies, Inc. hunter@brainspiral.com http://brainspiral.com w: 413-458-5755 c: 413-281-4918

On Apr 22, 2009, at 12:26 PM, Kathy wrote:

> I assume so – I try to download from either email (gmail) – and > think have tried on line – but has mainly been when I am sent a > document- like this one: Centsability poster 1.doc – just a basic > word document. > > > On Wed, Apr 22, 2009 at 12:16 PM, Hunter Greene > wrote: > > I assume this is within your web browser, correct? Firefox? > > hunter greene > Brainspiral Technologies, Inc. > hunter@brainspiral.com > http://brainspiral.com > w: 413-458-5755 > c: 413-281-4918 > > > > On Apr 22, 2009, at 12:15 PM, Kathy wrote: > >> Hi Hunter and Brainspiral: >> >> I love the new laptop – it si great >> >> One small difficulty – when I try to save/download an email >> attachment – comes up with message thaL user/macadmin/desktop/ >> bslinaxp.xls could not be saved, part because you cannnot change >> the contents of that folder. change the folder properties and try >> again or try saving in a differnt localtion. >> >> I don’t know how to change or take the lock off of the ‘desktop >> foler” – I cna save into folers when I do something and can >> specify a location – but cant’ change or create new folders. >> >> Can someone help? >> >

How to Rest Microsoft Word Toolbars

Hi Rob -

The MS Word toolbars can definitely be a little flakey from time to time.

Try this:

Right-Click on the currently visible toolbar & choose ‘Customize’. From the ‘Toolbars’ tab, click ‘Reset’ Click ‘OK’ to save the changes in Normal.dot Close Word & re-open it

If that doesn’t work, try this:

Close Microsoft Office Browse to C:\Documents and Settings\student\Application Data\Microsoft \Templates Delete the file called ‘Normal.dot’ Re-open Word This will restore all toolbar/font default values for Word.

Please let me know if neither of those solutions works.

hunter greene Brainspiral Technologies, Inc. hunter@brainspiral.com http://brainspiral.com w: 413-458-5755 c: 413-281-4918

On Apr 16, 2009, at 1:13 PM, Rob wrote:

> Hunter hello, > > On the new server-client computers, in Word, the basic toolbar is > there- the toolbar that has file, view, toolbars, etc. in it, is not > there. I do not know how to make that toolbar live. > > Any thoughts? > > -Rob- > > >

Mac Address Book & iPhone Questions

Hi Molly -

1) Yes – Address Book->File->Import Vcards

2) Yes, but to do so you need to either: a) Export from Outlook to a Text file format, then import to Address Book b) Install iTunes on the machine with Outlook & then configure Itunes to sync the Outlook address book (which iTunes is capable of doing with the iPhone)

What did you ever decide about the wireless in the back of the building? Is it working now? Or do you want to install another Access Point back there?

On Tue, Apr 14, 2009 at 10:59 AM, Molly wrote: > Hey Hunter.  Can I import vcards to my address book?  Alternatively, can I > somehow upload outlook information to my iphone contacts? > >

Difficulties of Web Development

This great MacWorld articles discusses the various issues surrounding the development of a website that is fully compatible with all popular web browsers:

http://www.macworld.com/article/139963/2009/04/browsers.html

A great read if you’re interested in understanding why it’s so difficult to develop a site, especially for Internet Explorer users.

Disable Filter Keys

Try holding down the right Shift key for 8 seconds.

hunter greene Brainspiral Technologies, Inc.

WPSC WP E-Commerce Shopping Cart 3.6.12 Google Checkout Shipping

It turns out that, among other things, WPSC can’t calculate shipping properly when linked to Google Checkout when using a flat-rate shipping method.

Surprise, Surprise.

We found a fix:

shopping_cart_functions.php around line 295 had the following as a method for calculating shipping:

$pnp += $wpdb->get_var(“SELECT SUM(pnp) FROM “.$wpdb- >prefix.”product_list WHERE id IN (“.$google_product_id.”)”);

That’s great – except that it doesn’t take into account the possibility that someone could order MORE THAN ONE ITEM. Like that ever happens in the e-commerce world. Maybe it just doesn’t happen in New Zealand. But here in the great U S of A, people often times buy more than one item.

So we changed the above line to:

foreach((array)$_SESSION['nzshpcrt_cart'] as $cart_item) { $product_id = $cart_item->product_id; $quantity = $cart_item->quantity; $pnp += nzshpcrt_determine_item_shipping($product_id, $quantity, $_SESSION['delivery_country']); }

Which was conveniently stolen from some other file.

The logic here is bad, too – only because I have a feeling nzshpcrt_determine_item_shipping looks up in the database for each item its price. Ideally the price should be stored locally as part of the nzshpcrt_cart array of cart objects, as quantity and description already are. Of course we were going to do that much, we might as well just re-write the entire plugin – properly, of course – and send the original developers packing.

Hope that helps.

WP Shopping Cart – Eliminate “All 50 States”

I Figured out how to get rid of the “All 50 States” addition to the shipping options.

Just comment out line 120 in shipping/flaterate.php:

//$shipping_quotes["All 50 States"] = (float)$flatrates['all']+ $per_item_shipping;

Then bye-bye. Working on getting the Google Checkout thing to calculate shipping properly.

Amazing how an E-Commerce plugin could fail to calculate shipping properly. Or tax. Or product prices. Or anything for that matter.

hunter greene Brainspiral Technologies, Inc.

Eliminating Asterisk VOIP Echo Issues

> We have found this post regarding improving phone quality by > eliminating line echo and properly tuning the analog cards of an > Asterisk box very helpful and accurate. > > http://www.trixbox.org/forums/trixbox-forums/open-discussion/how-eliminate-digium-tdmxxx-tdm22b-echo-audio-issues > > Brainspiral manages IP-based phone systems for dozens of clients. > We highly recommend Trixbox (http://trixbox.org) Appliances and > Aastra telephones (http://aastra.com). Systems running the highly > intuitive Asterisk phone software offer better features & advanced > configuration at a fraction of the cost.