[BCSE]

So we switched to 4.1.11 of X-cart back in early December. It was such a PITA to look at the past 30 days orders. So I made a quick link to the past 30 days orders. This should work for later versions of 4.1.x We have it working in 4.1.11

Here's what you do.
1. BACKUP ANY FILES YOU CHANGE.....
2. Make a copy of your admin/orders.php file, rename this copy to orders30.php
3. Open up orders30.php and find the line:

x_session_register("search_data");

AFTER that line insert:

# BCSE
if(!empty($search_data[orders]))
        unset($search_data[orders]);
$search_data[orders][sort_field] = 'orderid';
$search_data[orders][sort_direction] = 1;
$search_data[orders][by_username]='on';
$search_data[orders][by_firstname]='on';
$search_data[orders][by_lastname]='on';
$search_data[orders][date_period]='T';
$search_data[orders][status]='';
$mode="search";
# BCSE

4. Open up include/orders.php and find this code:

                        elseif ($data["date_period"] == "W") {
                                $first_weekday = $end_date - (date("w",$end_date) * 86400);
                                $start_date = mktime(0,0,0,date("n",$first_weekday),date("j",$first_weekday),date("Y",$first_weekday));
                        }

AFTER it insert:

                        elseif ($data["date_period"] == "T"){ # BCSE added to do last 30 days
                                $start_date = $end_date - (30 * 24 * 60 * 60);
                        }

5. Add a link into your skin1/admin/menu.tpl below the line for orders. Example way you can do it.
Find:

<a href="{$catalogs.admin}/orders.php" class="VertMenuItems">{$lng.lbl_orders}</a><br />

After add:

<a href="{$catalogs.admin}/orders30.php" class="VertMenuItems">{$lng.lbl_orders} 30 Days</a><br />

That should do it!

Variation - Only last 30 days of processed orders. (NOTE if you want to do both the above and this one, ONLY do steps 1-3 and step 5. So do not repeat step 4 again)

1. BACKUP ANY FILES YOU CHANGE.....
2. Make a copy of your admin/orders.php file, rename this copy to orders30p.php
3. Open up orders30p.php and find the line:

x_session_register("search_data");

AFTER that line insert:

#BCSE
if(!empty($search_data[orders]))
        unset($search_data[orders]);
$search_data[orders][sort_field] = 'orderid';
$search_data[orders][sort_direction] = 1;
$search_data[orders][by_username]='on';
$search_data[orders][by_firstname]='on';
$search_data[orders][by_lastname]='on';
$search_data[orders][date_period]='T';
$mode="search";
$search_data[orders][status]='P';
#BCSE

4. Open up include/orders.php and find this code:

                        elseif ($data["date_period"] == "W") {
                                $first_weekday = $end_date - (date("w",$end_date) * 86400);
                                $start_date = mktime(0,0,0,date("n",$first_weekday),date("j",$first_weekday),date("Y",$first_weekday));
                        }

AFTER it insert:

                        elseif ($data["date_period"] == "T"){ # BCSE added to do last 30 days
                                $start_date = $end_date - (30 * 24 * 60 * 60);
                        }

5. Add a link into your skin1/admin/menu.tpl below the line for orders. Example way you can do it.
Find:

<a href="{$catalogs.admin}/orders.php" class="VertMenuItems">{$lng.lbl_orders}</a><br />

After add:

<a href="{$catalogs.admin}/orders30p.php" class="VertMenuItems">{$lng.lbl_orders} 30 Days Processed</a><br />

Hope that helps some out there.

Carrie