Questions

q. How can I check my php configuration?

a. Call phpinfo() in a script:

<? phpinfo(); ?>

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q. How does the versioning of this project work?
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a. Preview Release 1.0 - initial release.
Preview Release 1.1 - bugfixes and updates.
Preview Release <=2.1 - stablizing framework releases.
>=2.2 - stable releases.

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q. How can I extract the project tar.gz package under a windows environment?
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a. WinZIP is able to extract gzip/tar archives. Download it at www.winzip.com

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q. Why can't I get variables to be parsed among pages?
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a. Your PHP is not compiled to track variables.

Compile PHP with --enable-track-vars

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q. Why is the session-ID screwing up my urls in href links?
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a. This project uses a custom function for all href links, called
tep_href_link(). This function is used for normal href links, forms, and
header redirects. The best way to avoid this problem is to use the function
as:

<?php
echo '<a href="' . tep_href_link('index.php', 'a=b') . '">my link</a>';
?>

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q. I receive an error of not being able to write to the parse_time_log file.
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a. This file needs to have the correct write permissions for the apache user
to be able to write to it. If you continue to get this error, create a 0
byte file with the right permissions.

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q. I get one of these errors: Fatal error: Call to undefined function:
count_contents(), Fatal error: Call to undefined function: restore_cart(),
etc.
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a. PHP3 and some PHP4 betas dont unserialize objects properly. To get it to
work, edit the file application_top.php and enable the following setting:

define('REPAIR_BROKEN_CART', '1');

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q. How do I install a snapshot on top of an exisiting distribution?
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a. You just untar it and copy it out like you would have for the initail
install.

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q. Will a snapshot overwrite my existing (modified) application_top.php?
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a. Yes it will overwrite applcation_top.php since that file exists in the
distribution. You will have to 'diff' the files to see all the changes that
have been made.

You may take your changes and put them in
catalog/includes/local/configure.php and then use the application_top.php
unmodified. This way, next time you download a new snapshot, you will have
all your changes in one file that will not be over-written by the
distrbution.

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q. How do I remove one of the boxes on the left hand side, or the right hand
side?
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a. Each box is defined in a file for that column. All boxes on the left hand
side is defined in catalog/includes/column_left.php, and all boxes on the
right hand side is defined in catalog/includes/column_right.php.

To remove a box, you can simple comment out the 'include' line, or remove
it totally.