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Kaimono Kago v1.1c Beta

Installation is added.

How to install

1. Download the zip file and unzip it.

2. Tranfer the unzipped files in your server.

3. Visit http://www.yourwebsite.com/install. If it is in your local server, visit http://127.0.0.1/kaimonokago/install or http://localhost/kaimonokago/install.

4. Fill up all necessary information. For your Encryption Key, visit http://www.ideaspace.net/misc/hash/ or [...]

We have more than 2000 downloads since we released Shopping Cart v1.0.
This shopping cart is built on Codeigniter. We use BackendPro for the administration and Ajax file manager for file management.

We thought it is a good idea to give a name to this shopping cart.
The name is KAIMONO KAGO which means ‘shopping basket’ in Japanese.
Well it is not a big difference in terms of meaning but at least you and we will know what we are talking about.

We also moved from Box.net to Sourceforge.net and you can download file from https://sourceforge.net/projects/kaimonokago/.

We added a license document and a updates text in the download files and you can read it here as well.

Continue reading Kaimono Kago: New name for our shopping cart

Every ‘BUY’ button under a product is linked to cart method with it’s id. This adds details of the product to our shopping cart.

Continue reading Shopping cart v1.1 Part 18: shopping cart

Newsletter is one of effective marketing tool for a web shop. I am going to cover subscribe and unsubscribe function in this article.

Continue reading Shopping cart v1.1 Part 17: Newsletter

jquery ketchup-plugin

Codeigniter Language Helper

http://codeigniter.com/user_guide/helpers/language_helper.html

We can simplify

echo $this->lang->line();

to

echo lang(‘language_key’, ‘form_item_id’);

Updating Preferences/Settings

Adding all the webshop languages in the back-end so that it will be automatically used.

External link in menu $uri = $menu['page_uri']; $external_link = ‘http’; $pos = strpos($uri, $external_link); // Note our use of [...]

Our customers uses this registration page to keep their information in our database. Once registered, this information will be displayed in a checkout page for a speedy process. This post covers the customer registration function, login and logout function.

Continue reading Shopping cart v1.1 Part 16: Registration page and customer log in page

Contact page allows visitors to send a message through a form. It has a reCaptcha in order to avoid spam. I will cover the contact page and sending email message to an administrator in this article.

Continue reading Shopping cart v1.1 Part 15: contact page and sending email message

I am going to update Shop_controller today.
Rather than manually updating Shop_controller.php, it is much better to add preferences or settings in the BackendPro.
BeP has an excellent manual and it explains about how to add ‘Preferences’.

Continue reading Shopping cart v1.1 Part 14: Adding webshop preferences