I was trying to figure out how I could manage the premium logic for my freemium Better Together for OpenCart module. You can’t just require a block of code in the middle of a PHP Class:
class SomeClass {
// NOT ALLOWED!
premium_file = "premium.php";
if (file_exists($premium_file)) {
require($premium_file);
}So I cooked up another method that I documented in this StackOverflow post about how to include code into a PHP class.
Better Together Admin for OpenCart, the web based configuration UI for OpenCart Better Together, has just been released.
Better Together Admin allows you to easily create “buy one, get one” discounts for your OpenCart based store. And it works right through your regular admin panel; no need to edit code to create the discounts. Here’s a video:
I’m spending more time on OpenCart these days, and wanted to show off my work on OpenCart Better Together. Here’s a video I made to show how configuration can be done using PHP. But don’t worry … Better Together Admin for OpenCart is coming soon!
I have released Discount Chooser for OpenCart (a port of the Discount Chooser / Free Gift Chooser algorithm from Zen Cart). I’m excited about this software and hope it really helps OpenCart store operators.
Discount Chooser goes beyond the standard BOGO discounts to permit the creation of much broader offers. For example, you can create “Buy 2, get 1”, “Buy 3 get 1,” or “Buy some number, get a choice of some number.”
Here’s a video if you haven’t seen it yet:
You may buy OpenCart Discount Chooser from my store, or if you prefer, you may buy OpenCart Discount Chooser on the OpenCart Marketplace.
My OpenCart Show Order ID on Checkout Success page mod has been updated for OpenCart 2.3.
Google’s Chrome browser has a nice feature that’s handy when you’re testing css and Javascript, and want to constantly refresh these files as you change them.
If you open the stacked three dots menu in your browser (to the right of the address bar) and open “More Tools -> Developer Tools”, then press the stacked three dot menu on that dialog, you’ll see a checkbox under Network with the label “Disable cache (while DevTools is open)”. Check this, and you’ll always be using the freshest copies of your css and js files.
The help page for OpenCart Discount Chooser shows three possible examples of discounts. In this video, I create each of these example discounts and show it in action on my shopping cart.
In this end to end test video, we see the process of creating a new discount for OpenCart using Discount Chooser, and then watch the discount get reflected in the shopping cart.
This video shows how newly added discounts are validated in Discount Chooser for OpenCart before they are shown to your customers.