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CubeCart version 5.2.9 released – update immediately
CubeCart version 5.2.9 released – a detailed look at the changes. What has changed in CubeCart V5.2.9 since V5.2.8 Important Security Update: Session Fixation Vulnerability & Potential Session Hijack Patch. The use of shared SSL certificates is no longer supported as the session ID is no longer passed in the URL Improved PayPal Pro Direct Payment Error Handling Fixes and improvements to the Checkout By […]
Bug fix for editing CubeCart V5 language files that contain urls
Bug fix for editing CubeCart language files that contain urls A bug has been identified in CubeCart V5 when editing language files where one or more of the language strings contains a url. An example of this is the Paypal_Pro plugin language file which contains a string entitled “billmelater” as shown in the image below The language string within the /modules/plugins/PayPal_Pro/language/module.definitions.xml file appears as <string […]
Prevent the Enter key from submitting a form on specific pages in CubeCart
Prevent the Enter key from submitting a form in CubeCart This is a little hack that prevents forms from being submitted when the [Enter] key is hit if there are input fields on a form – this is especially useful if there are two or more of these on the same page. The screenshot below shows an example of this when using the Blueprint skin […]
Manually Update CubeCart Default RSS url after V4 to V5 Upgrade
Update CubeCart Default RSS url after V4 to V5 Upgrade If you are running a CubeCart V5 store that has recently been upgraded from a V4 store then you may notice a large number of PHP warning messages in your error_log file similar to these two shown below : [28-Jan-2014 16:09:35 UTC] PHP Warning: SimpleXMLElement::__construct() [simplexmlelement.–construct.php]: ^ in /home/xxxxxxxx/public_html/V5/admin/sources/dashboard.index.inc.php on line 227 [28-Jan-2014 16:09:35 UTC] […]
CubeCart Copyright Message in Multiple Languages
CubeCart Copyright Message in Multiple Languages The CubeCart copyright message is set in the Admin | Store Settings | Copyright screen and is displayed at the bottom of every page. If your E-Commerce store is setup to only use a single language then this is sufficient but if you use multiple languages, then this functionality does not support multiple languages in the normal way. However, […]
CubeCart version 5.2.5 released
CubeCart version 5.2.5 released The CubeCart development team have announced the 5.2.5 release which is predominantly a maintenance release although it does contain a few minor enhancements What functionality has changed in 5.2.5 from V5.2.4 Gravatar added to product reviews. A bulk deletion tool for spam reviews has been added which works via IP Address and/or Email Address Product options stock level has been added […]
CubeCart version 5.2.4 released upgrade immediately
CubeCart version 5.2.4 released – upgrade immediately. Hot on the heels of the recent 5.2.3 release, another upgrade, 5.2.4 has been made available by the CubeCart development team but this time it is flagged as an important security release and ALL current V5 users are urged to upgrade to this version as soon as possible. If you also use PayPal as a payment gateway then […]
CubeCart version 5.2.3 released
CubeCart version 5.2.3 released. The CubeCart development team have just released the latest version upgrade (V5.2.3) of their E-Commerce software. While there are no security related issues included in this upgrade, we would still advise all people running V5 to upgrade to this latest version to take advantage of the additional functionality and a reasonable number of bug fixes / code improvements. What functionality areas […]
Improving MySQL Queries in your CubeCart V4 E-Commerce Store
Improving MySQL Queries in your CubeCart V4 Store. Although CubeCart V4 is no longer an available product or is even supported by the CubeCart development team (Havenswift Hosting will still provide support for all clients that have one of our E-Commerce Shared Hosting packages !) there are a huge number of websites that for a variety of reasons are still running this version and will […]
Displaying Payment Gateway Logos in CubeCart V5 Checkout
Displaying Payment Gateway Logos in CubeCart V5 Checkout. One fairly simple but often requested modification for older CubeCart versions (V3 and V4) was to be able to display a small logo for each enabled payment gateway in the checkout process. Shown below is the way to achieve this with CubeCart V5 – it does require (as of CubeCart V5.2.1 which is the latest at the […]
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