Re: X-Cart Ability Template v4.4.x
 

will ability 4.4.5 work on x-cart 4.5.4

Trying X-Cart Ability 1.4 on 4.5.5
 

I have not seen any entries about using Ability 1.4 on X-Cart 4.5.5 so I decided to try it on a test site. I learned right away that patch_install.sql would not work because the config table in 4.5.5 has an extra field compared to prior versions.

I edited patch_install.sql and got it to work but needed to stop there for now. There will likely be other issues that show up.

If you want to try it before an Ability upgrade comes out, you can use my edited patch file. Txt was added to the end to allow me to attach it.

Re: X-Cart Ability Template v4.4.x
 

Yes, there's a an extra field in the config table, so for the SQL patch, you just to add it on to each xcart_config entry line, eg.

Replace...


With


If anyone wants the new v455 patch, just get in touch.

Also in v455, they took out the ability to use PHP tags in Smarty (security reasons?). If you want that back...

include/templater/templater.php

Replace...


With...


I think there's other smarty modifiers disabled in v455, keep an eye on your error logs.

My advice is to hold off on the v455 upgrade for a short while, unless you really feel you must have it :)

Or at the very least, clone your store and perform the upgrade on it... not your live store.

Re: X-Cart Ability Template v4.4.x
 

Greetings,

Does Ability 1.4 work with either Gold or Gold Plus 4.5.3. ?
Is there any difference for the template. I have looked all over but never see anything saying gold or gold plus. So one would think the template will work with either versions?

Sorry I had to ask.

Cheers

Re: X-Cart Ability Template v4.4.x
 

I am using Ability (either 1.3 or 1.4, don't recall) with Gold 4.5.3 and X-Payments 1.0.5. I mention the X-Payments version because when I tried 4.5.3 with Ability and X-Payments 1.0.6 payments would be accepted but the customer would not get returned to the store, so I reverted to 1.0.5.

I don't know where the problem lies with 4.5.3 + Ability + 1.0.6. But 4.5.3 + Ability (1.3 or 1.4) + 1.0.5 is working for me. See frognirvana.com.

Anyone know how to easily tell the installed Ability version?

Re: X-Cart Ability Template v4.4.x
 

Anyone know how and where In the Ability templet to put a google button when clicking the checkout button at the top there is no google button. If you click on view cart there is a glutton. I have put a message in Phil site but no response even offering to pay with no contact from him.

Re: X-Cart Ability Template v4.4.x
 

Hey Phil,

Do you have instructions for adding the Rich Google Search Results module to the ability theme?

I can't get my head around the patches for it

Re: X-Cart Ability Template v4.4.x
 

I could not find it

Re: X-Cart Ability Template v4.4.x
 

Template news... The Adapt, Ability and Smart templates will not be updated beyond X-Cart v4.5.5, as they will be replaced with a single new fully responsive template, which will be launching early-mid April.

Adapt, Ability and Smart are however open-source from now on, so one license will enable you to use on as many stores as you wish. Prices will be dropped also.

The new template will be compatible with X-Cart Gold, Gold Plus and Platinum and only have 'essential' features included.

With a single template code base, it will be easier to maintain and update to newer X-Cart versions (quality, not quantity).

This is partly brought on by the radical changes in X-Cart lately, but is also necessary so that we can provide better support and updates for customers.

I would be interested to get some feedback on what 'essential' features you think ought to be included in the new template...

Thanks, Phil.

X-Cart Ability Template v4.5.5 ...and BEYOND!
 

I'm sure each of your customers have their own reasons for using your templates. Our stores do not use animated features (slide shows, etc) because our customer base is older people and we've gotten feedback that the glitz is a turn-off.

What is most important to me is a smooth, seamless, low confusion checkout that is compatible with X-Payments. I use the Altered Cart add-on OPC package on my 4.4 stores, but could not get it to work right on my 4.5.0 store with X-Payments, so I went back to standard X-cart, which sucks. There is too much emphasis on making an account during checkout. Non-account buyers should be default, not the other way around. The 'agree with terms' checkbox is somehow invisible to some customers who complain about not being able to check out. OPC makes that an option, whereas X-Cart checkout does not. If these issues are beyond your template making, please excuse my rant.

The image area of product pages needs to be proportionately larger. I'm always having to edit templates to make that so. Making it into a simple setting would be a good thing.

You seem to have avoided going to a low-contrast format style. Please do not give into the current style mania of low contrast text, box borders, etc unless you make it easy to change. My sites are for real people, older demographic, not style critics.

Your templates have had lots of color scheme choices. Please continue that.

I like the cufon font setup. Please keep that.

I'm currently waiting for the the 4.5.5 Ability template upgrade. Will the new template be out before that? If so, and it looks good, I make jump to it if I can get another multi-site license. But I really want to start my upgrades asap. The checkout/X-Payments fiasco cost us sales last holiday season, and I want all my sites upgraded this summer.

Thanks for your work.

Re: X-Cart Ability Template v4.4.x
 

Hi Bullfrog, many thanks for that, some good points.


Yes, I quite agree, slider and other eye candy will be optional.


I have been mulling over the best checkout strategy, bearing in mind that the new template needs to be mobile friendly. OPC is tricky to get right for mobiles and can be considered 'overkill' for the average punter. So I may be recommending the fastlane checkout instead (which does support xpayments as of v4.5.5). OPC is the ideal, but I'm not sure QT have got the interface as good as it should be.

This post highlights the problem... http://uxdesign.smashingmagazine.com/2013/03/14/designing-a-better-mobile-checkout-process/


This is done in the new template.


Again, I agree on that, I am trying to go for a middle ground on the contrast. Themes can be 'toned down' if you wish by editing the theme CSS.


There will be 10 preset colour themes, with a theme and Google font previewer.


Cufon won't be used, but Google fonts will (over 600 to choose from and hosted on the Google CDN).


Ability is compatible with v4.5.5 Gold now, so if you want the files just ask. The new template will be open-source, so you can use on as many stores as you want.

X-Cart Ability Template v4.5.5
 

I'll send in a request within 24 hrs for the Ability 4.5.5 update. That should help my 4.5.x stores. I'll consider the new template for my 4.4.4 Smart Template stores upgrade. Thanks again.

Re: X-Cart Ability Template v4.4.x
 

Hi Phil,

While I don't want to leave the Ability template, a template that I've spent an incredible amount of time tweaking... I fully understand where you are coming from. I have a couple of questions and then I've listed the Ability template options I'd like to see in the new template.

1. Can X-Cart Mobile and your new template function together? X-Cart mobile normally decides which template to use. I'm thinking that this could give you the best of both worlds. A responsive template for users that only want one template and a template that can be used along side a mobile template.

2. Will your paid mods such as your Testimonials and Thumbnail Candy work with your new template?

Requested Features To Stay From Ability Template

Theme Option
- Request All Options Stay

Header Options
- Header search box size

Category Menu Options
- Horizontal category menu style --> Tabbed Custom Menu

Homepage Options
- Homepage promotions --> Responsive Image slider

Products Display Options
- Products display --> Smart Columns
- Grid, 3 Rows, option to hide layout toggle button

Product Page Layout
- Request All Options Stay

Footer Options
- Keep scrollable box feature

Addons
- Keep Advanced breadcrumbs
- Accordion style FAQs on contact us page
- Gallery link
- Search by price

Advanced Minicart
- Enable advanced minicart --> Display in menu box
- max height option
- Display thumbnails in minicart

Miscellaneous
- Menu & dialog box sytle
- Enable menu promo boxes

Keep Tooltips
Keep RSS
Lightbox

Re: X-Cart Ability Template v4.4.x
 

Phil or anyone know how and where In the Ability templet to put a google button when clicking the checkout button at the top there is no google button. If you click on view cart there is a button. I have put a message in Phil site but no response even offering to pay with no contact from him.

Re: X-Cart Ability Template v4.4.x
 

Hi Kenny,

I would like to help if I can but not exactly sure what you mean by a Google button at the top?

Have you tried using web master mode to find the page it references to?

Re: X-Cart Ability Template v4.4.x
 

Ensure this code exists in skin/ability/customer/content.tpl

Re: X-Cart Ability Template v4.4.x
 

Hello Phil,

I appreciate you're still in business. We sent you over a week ago a support ticket requesting files for the 3 mods we purchased from you for www.istok.net. We were supposed to switch to a newly bought Platinum version last week, but were unable to do this, because we didn't get from you any response. We want to reinstall these mods on the new platform ourselves. If you recall, at the time we bought them, we paid you for installation and, thus, we do not have the installation files. The 3 mods in question are X-Cart Customer Testimonials Displayer & Manager v4.x, Watermarked Images and Smart Comments v4.x. We understand that only Watermarked Images may need an upgrade to 4.5.x. We'd be happy to pay the upgrade fee.
Please find a minute in your busy schedule to handle this customer request.

Re: X-Cart Ability Template v4.4.x
 

Yes, there's no reason why not, but you will have a better 'non-mobile', yet responsive, site framework to work with. Ability and Adapt was a huge learning curve for me and the new template should be a vast improvement.


I will eventually release a testimonials mod for the new template and give it away free. A free thumbnail promo mod may also be released at a later date, but not a priority.

Re: X-Cart Ability Template v4.4.x
 

I am also getting the 1064 error from ability_minicart_content.php. However when I try and edit the php file to make the correction that kevenbentz identified it looks like it is encrypted so I can't edit it to manually correct the syntax......

I am on version 1.03 of Ability - don't particular want to have to re-install the whole thing if I can help it.

Any ideas how I should proceed ?

Error message

[22-Mar-2013 18:29:49] (shop: 22-Mar-2013 18:29:41) SQL error:
Site : http://svsponline.co.uk
....
SQL query : select categoryid, category from xcart_categories where categoryid in () order by category
Error code : 1064
Description : You have an error in your SQL syntax; check the manual that corresponds to your MySQL server version for the right syntax to use near ') order by category' at line 1
Request URI: /login.php
Backtrace:
/home/svsponli/public_html/include/func/func.db.php:303
/home/svsponli/public_html/include/func/func.db.php:203
/home/svsponli/public_html/include/func/func.db.php:483
/home/svsponli/public_html/ability_minicart_content.php(1) : eval()'d code(1) : eval()'d code(1) : eval()'d code:21
/home/svsponli/public_html/ability_minicart_content.php(1) : eval()'d code(1) : eval()'d code:1
/home/svsponli/public_html/ability_minicart_content.php(1) : eval()'d code:1
/home/svsponli/public_html/ability_minicart_content.php:1
/home/svsponli/public_html/include/common.php:98
/home/svsponli/public_html/login.php:54
-------------------------------------------------

Re: X-Cart Ability Template v4.4.x
 

Google button. All that is in there but its not there what I want. In the view cart the button is there but when you just click on checkout its not there.

Re: X-Cart Ability Template v4.4.x
 

Hi all

I'm hoping someone can help. On the product detail page i'd like to move the social network icons further down the page and replace them with the short description. Has anyone done this?

thanks

Re: X-Cart Ability Template v4.4.x
 

Hi Phil,

I saw your note that Ability is now being replaced by reBOOT, but will continue to be supported. Do have an Ability based fix for the Twitter feed?

Thanks

Re: X-Cart Ability Template v4.4.x
 

Here's the fix for the Ability Twitter feed

Re: X-Cart Ability Template v4.4.x
 

Thanks Phil,

I have made the changes but it is still not loading. Any suggestions to debug.

Site is www.trendykid.com

Re: X-Cart Ability Template v4.4.x
 

I just uploaded the Twitter feed fix. There was no twitter subdirectory at that location. Am I missing part of the instructions.

My site is also scrambled. It just happened one day.

Re: X-Cart Ability Template v4.4.x
 

You need to upload the files. The /twitter folder is in the zip.

If still stuck, post a ticket. Or alternatively you can embed a Twitter timeline using code from here.

Re: X-Cart Ability Template v4.4.x
 

Hi Phil,

I unzipped it and uploaded it to the template. I'm saying it did not overwrite anything at location because there was nothing there. So wouldn't there have to be some code in the template?

Anyway I have posted a ticket for the larger issue.

Thanks

Re: X-Cart Ability Template v4.4.x
 

Did anyone get this working? be nice to use the ability timeline but not sure where to put the files?

Re: X-Cart Ability Template v4.4.x
 

The Twitter API update is straightforward to install. If you are stuck, post a support ticket and I'll make the changes for you.

Re: X-Cart Ability Template v4.4.x
 

Thanks Phil,

I have another one which I hope is a quick fix.. On the Gallery, we've added the files as per the instructions but we're getting 'The requested image cannot be loaded. Please try again later'? The thumbnail loads OK, so its a bit odd?

any ideas what it could be?

Re: X-Cart Ability Template v4.4.x
 

Obaluba2, try changing the permission on your /files directory to 755

Ability 4.6 compatible
 

Hey Phil,

I know Ability has been replaced by the other template but do you have a 4.6 compatible version of Ability ? I am looking to upgrade two 4.5 stores.

Thanks

Re: X-Cart Ability Template v4.4.x
 

No, sorry, but If you PM me, I can sort you out with a discount for the reboot template.

Re: X-Cart Ability Template v4.4.x
 

Hi

On the category pages you have the controls to browse through pages 1 2 3 etc and sort etc..

If we click to view products by manufacturer we have these controls at the top, we don't have them at the bottom? How can we add these? They seem to be in the stock x-cart gold 4.6.0

Also..

We have some products which have no more price and are just set as 'more information' or call for price.

On the product rotator on the homepage they display the price as ё0.00 how can we change this to 'Call' but only for products with no price?

thanks for looking guys!

Re: X-Cart Ability Template v4.4.x
 

For the latest x-cart XSS vulnerability patch issued in early OCtober, can the patch files and SQL be applied as is? Or with the Ability template were some of the files that have to be patched modified so one must therefore use the (tedious!) manual DIFF file patch process?

The patch in question (for xcart 4.4.5 version):
security-patch-2013-10-08_4.4.5.tgz

There are MANY PHP and TPL files in this patch.

THANKS!

Re: X-Cart Ability Template v4.4.x
 

I'm just about to start looking and I'll report back what I find. I briefly glanced at the files a couple of days ago and saw that it involved template files. If Ability has it's own version then the changes would have to be made in the Ability version. I'll be testing on a dev copy of my live site. The update was involved enough that I wanted to have plenty of time and not be rushed while doing it.

Re: X-Cart Ability Template v4.4.x
 

I am replicated an Ability based .com site to a co.uk site. I have the developer license.

But now on the .co.uk site all the text for the product descriptions, the static pages and dropdown menu text in the header, there may be more are all white. Hence, you can't see any of the text !

The text is black on the original site. Any ideas ?

Re: X-Cart Ability Template v4.4.x
 

So far it looks like only 1 Ability file, product_details.tpl is affected.

common_files/customer/main/product_details.tpl

The update changes

To

There are 2 places this happens in this file.

Re: X-Cart Ability Template v4.4.x
 

Security Patch is now complete on our live site and have not seen any issues. For Ability I only had to modify the product_details.tpl file mentioned above.

Re: X-Cart Ability Template v4.4.x
 

Thanks for your help with this!