Adding X-Cart Custom Product Fields
Great tutorial on adding x-cart 4 custom product fields https://www.xcartmods.co.uk/Adding-X-Cart-Custom-Product-Fields.html
You know which products are selling on your x-cart store but do you know which pages are the most visited?
As a store owner you can see through your online orders which products are selling regularly via Google analytics ecommerce tracking it is pretty easy to see this too. But its much more difficult to see the viewing stats for…
Implementing Google Maps Address Auto complete in X-Cart 4
I am working on implementing google maps to autocomplete the address fields on the x-cart checkout. The screenshot above shows how it would work. You start entering your address and a list is returned by the google maps api. When…
Show all smarty variables available in a .tpl file
On some occasions you just want to know what smarty variables are available to you in the .tpl file. On older versions of smarty v2 and before you can't just use {$debug} . So you can use the following instead.…
Improving the body classes in X-Cart 4
To get better granularity with styling in CSS on X-Cart 4 I have always felt that the body tag could do with more class declarations a bit like Wordpress and Drupal. So this could be used for example for styling…
Improving the extra field handling in X-Cart 4
One of the first changes I perform to the X-Cart 4 core code as a theme developer is to improve the way Extra Fields are held on the product page. Extra Fields are a great way to add custom fields…
Smarty Debug Code to only show content for your own ip address
In Smarty templating code you sometimes just want to show content to a specific IP address. This is ideal for trying something on the live site but only you can see what is happening. {if $smarty.server.REMOTE_ADDR == '141.105.193.53'} {* other…