Category Archives: ecommerce

Prestashop 1.6 Upgrading from old version, product images not showing

Posted on January 5, 2015 by admin

Solution: http://www.prestashop.com/forums/topic/271091-images-not-showing-after-upgrading-1550 Preferences > Images 1) Set Use the legacy image filesystem to YES 2) Click Move images Wait for the process to complete. 3) Set Use the legacy image filesystem back to NO Should solve the problem of missing … Continue reading →

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Prestashop 1.6: enable collation_database for creating tables

Posted on December 29, 2014 by admin

DB tables created with a collation different than the database collation http://www.prestashop.com/forums/topic/363458-fresh-install-doesnt-prestashop-respect-the-existing-database-collation/ Solution: http://forge.prestashop.com/browse/PSCSX-3486

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Prestashop: Category Quantity Discount

Posted on November 24, 2014 by admin

Apply Quantity Discounts across all products in a category Prestashop 1.2 – 1.3 Source: http://www.prestashop.com/forums/topic/75558-mod-quantity-discounts-for-all-the-products-in-the-same-default-category/ Prestashop 1.4 – 1.6 Source: http://www.prestashop.com/forums/topic/140803-free-module-category-quantity-discount-apply-quantity-discounts-across-all-products-in-a-category/ Quantity discount is calculated based on the price of product. For promotion mechanics below, if we use the built-in … Continue reading →

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Prestaship 1.3 Force default currency for checkout

Posted on October 10, 2014 by admin

Source: http://www.prestashop.com/forums/topic/9473-module-force-currency/ Note: Error in amount shown in store owner email but is correct in customer email. Use with caution. in init.php before: $currency = Tools::setCurrency(); add: $cookie->id_currency = intval(Configuration::get(‘PS_CURRENCY_FRONT_DEFAULT’)); in admin/tabs/AdminCurrencies.php after: ‘PS_CURRENCY_DEFAULT’ => array(‘title’ => $this->l(‘Default currency:’), ‘desc’ … Continue reading →

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Prestashop 1.6 Remove backoffice module update notifications listing

Posted on September 17, 2014 by admin

Modules are updated according to prestashop core file updates. However the currently installed shop may not be compatible with the latest module updates. To prevent accidentally breaking the shop due to incompatible module updates, Go to Administration Preferences to disable … Continue reading →

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Prestashop 1.6: Delete all sample data

Posted on August 27, 2014 by admin

1) Remove statistics information from dashboard. Click NO to ‘Demo Mode’ on your Dashboard. It’s on the lower right hand side. 2) Remove all sample and demo orders, catalog etc from the database Go to the “Modules > Modules” page. … Continue reading →

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Tips to Optimise your php.ini File for PrestaShop

Posted on July 26, 2014 by admin

PrestaShop system requirements Summary: Web server: Apache 1.3, Apache 2.x, Nginx or Microsoft IIS PHP 5.4+ MySQL 5.0+ PHP memory_limit 2048M upload_max_filesize 100M max_execution_time 1000 post_max_size 100M max_input_time -1 PHP extensions: GD, cURL, SimpleXML, SOAP To improve performances: MemCached, mcrypt … Continue reading →

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PrestaShop 1.3 BackOffice login refresh issue

Posted on July 26, 2014 by admin

Took over an ecommerce project running PrestaShop 1.3. The BackOffice’s unexplained admin login time-out issue was driving me crazy. Tried many solutions to optimise the various settings to no avail. Finally found this solution below which finally worked. Solution discovered … Continue reading →

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