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[groovico]

Originally Posted by genekurtz

That' fine but then everything that happens here, all of the advice that's given, is improving people's stores and I have not seen anyone post anything saying that they wanted to profit from what they were sharing until your post. I do see people requesting quotes to have a site modified or wanting a certain mod developed and that is something different. They are asking for something specific to be developed that they needed. I was going to have BOOMER do my site (skin) because he gave a very fair price (especially for the level of work he produces) but then I felt that I wanted to learn how to implement the things that people on this forum where sharing. Now my site may not look anywhere near as good as something that BOOMER, or funkydunk, or Shan (or any of the others that sent me quotes) could have made it look but at least I can say I am the one who created it (with the help of the great folks here).

And as for remarks about "not being a business person" I would have to say that those of you that feel that way are the ones who are clueless about how to survive in business. It would almost seem as those that have made those statements have never been in a real business. Do you just take the pricing given by suppliers and never question it or try to get it as low as possible? Do you not try to leverage and get "freebies" whenever and wherever possible? The whole purpose of a business is to bring in as much as possible with the least amount of outlay. Then, and ONLY then, will you be truly as profitable as possible. I have an obligation to shareholders to make them the most for their money. That is business! It even carries over to personal...do you walk into a car dealership and pay sticker price for a car? Do you not bargain and haggle in everyday life? Think about it!

I fully agree with alot that you've said but it was your reply to the fellow that sparked my post. Like i said there's no need to be rude, "no chance" is hardly diplomatic as all that happens is that person is then inclined not to offer help or thier mods in the future.

Many of us including myself offer free time on this forum to helping others occasionally you charge for your service when it involves installing or customising someone elses cart, it's time you have to take out of your life, you risk running into unforseen problems with servers/set ups/ configs etc the $29.00 is pocket change in real business terms to simply have something done and dusted with no headaches.

My post was geared towards the replies given to the poor chap. It's disheartening to see people add to a community only to have negative responses, believe me it makes alot of us think "why bother?" he may very well come up with the next killer must have x-cart mod that you really want, you'd hardly be on his best side straight off the mark.

And as for remarks about "not being a business person" I would have to say that those of you that feel that way are the ones who are clueless about how to survive in business

I'll let that go, I'm not looking for a bar brawl. Survived for 9 years in pro internet development so I've been round the block more than once with everyone from sole traders to blue chip corporates

A reply of "Thanks, but I can't afford that right now" is far more diplomatic and doesn't alienate people in the forum.

[snorocket]

editing a tpl file is not much of a mod to charge for, bust open frontpage folks its not too difficult, a little wacky, few cups of coffee and the experience gained to edit other files is well worth it. Shan & Funky have some awesome mods that are well worth paying for and this i A ok because most folks lacking php & smarty knowledge would never be able to do them. As for being negative the only negative things i post are about the fags/porno/pedifiles running xcart sites selling homo toys, that is sick sick sick & should surely be in violation of the xcart license just as many hosting companies refuse to provide services to such losers.

[adpboss]

SNO lets keep your personal opinions and judgements out of here. This forum is about X-cart, and not your view of what is right or wrong.

I'm quite sure that Shan, Funky and Boomer have worked on these sick sick sick sites you have passed judgement on. Perhaps you should PM them individually and tell them to stop.

If you disagree with who X-Cart is being used by, send a message to the Dev. team. I'm sure they are a fraction more interested to hear about it than the users on this board.

We don't need anymore thread crapping so lets get back to what this forum is good at. Building better carts.

[machnhed1]

Ok, here's the down and dirty way of doing this if you want to print out fancy invoices. I am not guaranteeing any of the code, nor would I attempt any of this before backing up all the files - before they change - in case you have to fall back. With that said, here we go:

1) Find the file include/history_order.php
2) Find the following line of code:

if ($mode == "invoice" or $mode == "label") { 

3) Change

if ($mode == "invoice" or $mode == "label") { 

to

if (or $mode == "label") { 

4) Find the file skin1/main/order_invoice_print.tpl
5) Find the following line of code:

{ include file="mail/order_invoice.tpl" order=$orders_data[oi].order customer=$orders_data[oi].customer products=$orders_data[oi].products giftcerts=$orders_data[oi].giftcerts} 

change it to

{ include file="mail/custom_order_invoice.tpl" order=$orders_data[oi].order customer=$orders_data[oi].customer products=$orders_data[oi].products giftcerts=$orders_data[oi].giftcerts} 

6) Using the variables from your order_invoice.tpl file make a file called custom_order_invoice.tpl - here is where you are going to use HTML to make it look fancy. Save it to your mail directory.

There is one more include in the order_invoice.tpl file "{include file="mail/order_data.tpl"}" so you may want to change that line and make your own customized tpl for that too.

I hope this is clear, and that it helps stop all the name calling.

[shan]

As for being negative the only negative things i post are about the fags/porno/pedifiles running xcart sites selling homo toys, that is sick sick sick & should surely be in violation of the xcart license.

I dont think theres any reason for you to make comments like that.

I dont recall anyone being banned from the forum yet but thats the sort off thing that will do it.

This forum is not here for people to air their personal hang ups or narrow minded attitudes its to with building stores and helping each other out.

[groovico]

Originally Posted by snorocket

editing a tpl file is not much of a mod to charge for, bust open frontpage folks its not too difficult, a little wacky, few cups of coffee and the experience gained to edit other files is well worth it. Shan & Funky have some awesome mods that are well worth paying for and this i A ok because most folks lacking php & smarty knowledge would never be able to do them. As for being negative the only negative things i post are about the fags/porno/pedifiles running xcart sites selling homo toys, that is sick sick sick & should surely be in violation of the xcart license just as many hosting companies refuse to provide services to such losers.

whoa... man take a chill pill, we're talking about being diplomatic and friendly with contributors in the forum!

[jpsowin]

This is ridiclous. He was entitled to charge for the module, end of story. Modifying a "simple TPL" file can be a big thing to alot of people--I think any of us who actually do work of people know that. If you don't think he should have, then just please ignore the thread.

[snorocket]

banning would never happen the reprecussions that would come back about getting banned from a support forum you paid for would do more harm then ignoring my post . Being an admin you can just delete it, normally i would have just deleted it myself but considering it got quoted several times even by you i decided to let stand as one of the all time "Top Ten Posts"

[jpsowin]

Hmm.. you paid for a free support fourm that was started by the community and then hosted by x-cart as a free service as a bonus to customers? Very interesting.

[snorocket]

you have to buy the software to access the forum so YES (smartass)