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Remove all products and categories from a Zen Cart

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Nov 012012

Don’t you just hate it when you realise you need to clear out all your old products and categories froma ZenCart install and start again? Particularly if you have done an import using EasyPopulate and the client(ahem) has given you a spreadsheet of duff data?!

Simply login to phpMyAdmin and run these statements on your database.
WARNING: This will delete ALL your product data!

DELETE FROM zen_customers;
DELETE FROM zen_customers_info;
DELETE FROM categories;
DELETE FROM categories_description;
DELETE FROM group_pricing;
DELETE FROM manufacturers;
DELETE FROM manufacturers_info;
DELETE FROM products;
DELETE FROM products_attributes;
DELETE FROM products_attributes_download;
DELETE FROM products_description;
DELETE FROM products_discount_quantity;
DELETE FROM products_options;
DELETE FROM products_options_values;
DELETE FROM products_options_values_to_products_options;
DELETE FROM products_to_categories;

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Hide “List View” Product in opencart

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Oct 182012

For category page(the others are similar):

Edit the file catalog/view/theme/yourtheme/template/product/category.tpl

Find and delete the line:

Then find the line:

<div>

and change it into:

<div>

And then , from the same file you should also delete the javascript for the grid/list view as its not needed anymore.

So delete:

function display(view) {

if (view == ‘list’) {

$(‘.product-grid’).attr(‘class’, ‘product-list’);

$(‘.product-list > div’).each(function(index, element) {

html = ‘<div>’;

html += ‘ <div>’ + $(element).find(‘.cart’).html() + ‘</div>’;

html += ‘ <div>’ + $(element).find(‘.wishlist’).html() + ‘</div>’;

html += ‘ <div>’ + $(element).find(‘.compare’).html() + ‘</div>’;

html += ‘</div>’;

html += ‘<div>’;

var image = $(element).find(‘.image’).html();

if (image != null) {

html += ‘<div>’ + image + ‘</div>’;

}

var price = $(element).find(‘.price’).html();

if (price != null) {

html += ‘<div>’ + price + ‘</div>’;

}

html += ‘ <div>’ + $(element).find(‘.name’).html() + ‘</div>’;

html += ‘ <div>’ + $(element).find(‘.description’).html() + ‘</div>’;

var rating = $(element).find(‘.rating’).html();

if (rating != null) {

html += ‘<div>’ + rating + ‘</div>’;

}

html += ‘</div>’;

$(element).html(html);

});

$(‘.display’).html(‘<b><?php echo $text_display; ?></b> <?php echo $text_list; ?> <b>/</b> <a onclick=”display(\’grid\’);”><?php echo $text_grid; ?></a>’);

$.cookie(‘display’, ‘list’);

} else {

$(‘.product-list’).attr(‘class’, ‘product-grid’);

$(‘.product-grid > div’).each(function(index, element) {

html = ”;

var image = $(element).find(‘.image’).html();

if (image != null) {

html += ‘<div>’ + image + ‘</div>’;

}

html += ‘<div>’ + $(element).find(‘.name’).html() + ‘</div>’;

html += ‘<div>’ + $(element).find(‘.description’).html() + ‘</div>’;

var price = $(element).find(‘.price’).html();

if (price != null) {

html += ‘<div>’ + price + ‘</div>’;

}

var rating = $(element).find(‘.rating’).html();

if (rating != null) {

html += ‘<div>’ + rating + ‘</div>’;

}

html += ‘<div>’ + $(element).find(‘.cart’).html() + ‘</div>’;

html += ‘<div>’ + $(element).find(‘.wishlist’).html() + ‘</div>’;

html += ‘<div>’ + $(element).find(‘.compare’).html() + ‘</div>’;

$(element).html(html);

});

$(‘.display’).html(‘<b><?php echo $text_display; ?></b> <a onclick=”display(\’list\’);”><?php echo $text_list; ?></a> <b>/</b> <?php echo $text_grid; ?>’);

$.cookie(‘display’, ‘grid’);

}

view = $.cookie(‘display’);

if (view) {

display(view);

} else {

display(‘list’);

}

//–></script>

How To Create A Trackback URL

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Aug 142012

For a web writer, links and backlinks are serious business! We love ‘em. So today I wanted to discuss with you the value of using trackback url links and how to use them in your blog.

What Is A Trackback?

First of all, it’s important that you understand what a trackback is. A trackback is a method for web authors to request notification when somebody links to one of their articles. This enables authors to keep track of who is linking, and so referring, to their content. Blogging platforms such as WordPress, Drupal and Movable Type, support automatic pingbacks where all the links in a published article can be pinged when the article is published, although WordPress is considered the favored platform for trackback linking. Side Note – Blogger does not support trackback linking.

Let Me Explain Trackbacks In Even Simpler Terms…

If you are cruising around my site and you see an article on creating a custom Facebook url that you want to share with your readers, the obvious thing to do would be to link to that article: http://lisaangelettieblog.com/how-to-create-custom-facebook-url/. Linking to this article from another trackback enabled blog (like another WordPress blog) would automatically create a trackback link.

This type of link that lets me know that you have made reference to my article and it also lets me know in which article on your site you did this – by including a link to that article. At best this gets me interested in you and I will visit your site and read (and possibly refer) to some of your articles as well. We could build a relationship. At worst, you at least have my attention and you have a backlink to your site on my site.

Where Would I Find A Trackback Link?

The way trackback links are displayed can differ based on the type of blogging platform you are using, and even if you are on a WordPress blog, the display can differ based on theme. But for the most part – you will find trackback links in the comment section of your blog or right before the blog comments. This is what a trackback looks like on one of my fav’ sites Problogger:

Please be aware that some blogs show trackback links differently and this is usually dependent upon the preferences you have set up for your blog’s comments. For example, on my site, I just show the link to the referring article. I don’t include the excerpt like Problogger does.

Other sites do enable trackback links but choose not to show them on their site, while others choose not to enable trackback linking at all (which I don’t agree with), but this is probably due to something out there called “trackback spam”.

What Is Trackback Spam?

Well, if you start seeing some trackback links from totally off topic sites or if you get a trackback link from the same site every time you publish – you are probably receiving trackback spam. It’s a good idea to delete those trackback links because they are basically fishing for links all over the web. They aren’t really referring you to any qualified reader that would actually visit your site.

The WordPress plugin Akismet does a really good job of keeping trackback spam at bay, although there are a few other solutions out there such as Simple Trackback Validation that do the same thing as well.

How Concerned Do I Need To Be About Obtaining Trackbacks?

You really cannot force trackback links to your site. They happen organically because someone liked something you wrote on your blog – end of story. So I wouldn’t worry about it too much. Just pay attention when you do get your first few trackback links and see if the blogger would be someone with whom you could build a relationship with in the future.

What you can do purposefully though is refer to relevant articles yourself and build trackback links on other sites. Do this only when you really like the content and preferably on a high traffic blog. The reason why I say high traffic is that most trackback links are NOFOLLOW links, so the advantage of having the link is so that a human being (the blog owner and/or a reader) will see it and click on it. There is no SEO benefit, although there are a handful of blogs that have purposefully turned their trackback links into DOFOLLOW links.

*Bonus Tip – TweetBacks

There is also something called Tweetbacks. That’s when a link pops up in or under your comment section because someone on Twitter has referred to (linked to) one of your articles. This is just another great way to continue the conversation about your content in the social media stratosphere. We like these too!

How To Create A Tweetback

So for instance, if you wanted to recommend this article to your Twitter followers, you would copy the url of the article, shorten it using tinyurl or bi.tly etc., and create a tweet adding that link. Once you do that, a tweetback would automatically appear in my comment section from your Twitter profile.

*This article idea was submitted by a valued reader. Feel free to submit article ideas you’d like me to write about over on my Facebook page.

PHP Project Traning Agra| Live Project Training Agra

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Jun 112012

Live Project Training

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Interview training is a mainly exclusive quality of our PHP MySQL Training course. By provided that accurate interview preparation training we attach to our commitment of creating industry ready professionals. We guide our students to make the self-confidence and face the technical and ethical dispute. We not only build technically strong professionals but we also get ready students for interview facing skills; so they are not missing behind because of deficient in high-quality appearance of skills.

Please make sure that we are not a learning Institute and our center of attention or target is not to teach a language. This training programming is only projected only for somber persons who have little awareness on the platforms PHP, .NET and MySql and we will help them increase some practical live experience thereby escalation knowledge they had gained for the duration of their graduation, post graduation or during their certificate courses. These practical hands on experience would help you fill the gap which prevents mainstream of fresher to be measured by their potential employers due to lack of experience.

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How to show your latest Twitter updates on your WordPress blog sidebar

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Apr 262012

Showing your latest Twitter updates on your WordPress blog sidebar not only supplies fresh content to your blog with greater frequency, it also gets you new followers from your blog who might otherwise never visit your Twitter profile page.

There are many ways you can publish Twitter updates from your own stream as well as from people and organisations you admire. For instance, instead of publishing tweet updates from your own Twitter profile you can publish stream from @howtoplaza.

Using the Twitter widget to publish updates on your WordPress blog sidebar

Anyway, the fastest way would be to use the widget provided by Twitter.com itself. It is fully customisable in the sense that you can change the colour, the number of updates to publish and the behaviour of the box that displays the updates.

As you can see above, you simply have to enter a Twitter handle in order to generate an updates box for it. On the left hand side there are various links that allow you to fully customise your Twitter updates box for your WordPress blog:

Once you are satisfied with the way your Twitter updates box appears, you can click the “Finish and Grab Code” button. You need to copy/paste the code that you get where you want the box to appear.

Using WordPress plug-ins to publish product updates on your blog sidebar

What would be better than using WordPress plug-ins to publish your Twitter updates on your WordPress blog sidebar? Most of the plug-ins that allow you to publish this information let you fully customise the look and feel of the box so you don’t have to dirty your hands with programming and coding. Here is a list of plug-ins that you can explore in order to publish your Twitter updates on your WordPress blog sidebar.