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Sometimes, you might have operations like crons running PHP scripts behind the scenes. If there are any errors in it, it can become difficult to debug them since they might not affect the entire website. Whether you are doing this with any PHP framework or in a Joomla component, logging can help you debug such issues.Here is how you can use Joomla'...

While developing a custom frontend for Authors to manage their own content, we needed to let them delete their own items. The Quick & Dirty way of doing this is by executing some delete queries on zoo related tables. But that's not the right & elegant way to do it.

The right way is to use the Zoo API & do this in 3-4 lines of code against 20-30 lines of the dirty code.

Recently, we had a chance to develop a Payment gateway plugin for HikaShop. We thought this would be a good chance to share a small overview with everyone!

Let's Get started. 

The guys at CloudAccess have invited us to do a Webinar about SocialAds & share the secrets of what goes into setting it up to Maximise the Revenue earning potential of your website ! With innovative features like Flexible Zones & pricing, Email Ad delivery, Extensive Social, Geo & Keyword targeting, Flexible pricing models &a...

Hey all, In Invitex 2.7.4, we have fixed the issue related the Windows Live Mail API updates . Compatible with Joomla! 2.5.x & 3.0.x PHP 5.3 or higher is needed - Bugs fixed #21269 Clicking on Hotmail(Widows live) button in frontend throws "404-Page not found" error. 

Importing contacts using Hotmail API works in three steps:
1. Getting Request Token:

Use the following URL to request token form Hotmail.

 https://login.live.com/oauth20_authorize.srf?client_id=CLIENT_ID&scope=wl.signin+wl.basic+wl.contacts_emails&response_type=code&redirect_uri=REDIRECT_URL

• client_id(represented here by CLIENT_ID) is the one that you received when you registered your app in the Live Connect app management site.
• scope parameter has to be "wl.signin+wl.basic+wl.contacts_emails" in case of Importing Email contacts
• response_type parameter is set to code, which requests an authorization code.
• redirect_uri parameter (represented here by REDIRECT_URL) is the URL that Live Connect returns users to after they sign in. 

  We have released Quick2Cart version 2.0.1 which contains bug fixes for reported bugs. Please check the changelog given below.   Changelog for v2.0.1 NOTE Ugrade Instructions : If you have any of the following modules, please make sure you uninstall them and then install the latest stable package v2.0.1 at your site. Quick2Cart module - Best Selle...

Woo Hooo ! Its here !! Quick2Cart 2.0 brings our biggest features ever !!! Wondering what I'm so excited about ? Lets take a look .

Social Ecommerce with Multi Vendor & Multi Store

Quick2Cart 2.0 is our biggest release to date. It introduces a Major new feature - Social Ecommerce with Multi Vendor, Multi Store & an awesome JomSocial Integration. So now you have a great way to start monetizing your Social network.

All your users can create their own stores & manage their own products. You can charge a commission on each transaction. Or if you so choose, integrate with something like Payplans or AEC & charge for this feature. Store owners can also create their own coupons. Users can buy products from one or more stores & checkout in a single step.  Note that multivendor support in this version is for for Native Products only ( Support for Joomla Content, Zoo, K2 Flexi content for Multi Vendor will be introduces in future releases).

With an awesome Vendor Dashboard, frontend coupons, customer management & much much more, this feature promises to bring a whole new aspect to Joomla ecommerce. Read more about Multi Vendor & Multi Store here.

JomSocial Integrations include Plugins to show stores & products on user profile, Activity Stream integrations, JomSocial Notifications Integration. We have also added Jlike Integration, A SocialAds promote plugin & much more ! Read more about Social Integrations here.

Flexi Content Integration

Now Add an awesome shopping experience to your FLEXIContent. Adding to our growing list of CCK integrations, FLEXIContent joins the Party !  Quick2Cart already supports Joomla Content, K2 & Zoo. Read more about our CCK Integrations here.

One Page Checkout

We have worked extensively on our checkout process to make it faster & easier for your customers to checkout. The entire checkout process has been consolidated to be on one page. And thats not more ! We have lots of new features in this new release & lots of Bug fixes too. Read on for the full changelog  for the complete feature list.

Screen Shots

Checkout out many more screenshots on our Facebook page.

Upgrading  / Installing Quick2Cart 2.0

We have upgraded our common payments API in Quick2Cart 2.0 version. So if you have JGive, SocialAds or JTicketing installed, you will lneed to upgrade them to the latest versions released today. If your subscriptions for those have expired, we have released free patches on the forum so that they can work with the new CPG plugins.

Buy Now !

At 29.99$ for a 6 months Subscription & 49.99 for a 12 month Subscription, the new Quick2Cart is a superb Steal ! Get Quick2Cart today !

SocialAds 2.9.3 is available for download to subscribers. This release fixes the bugs reported in previous version. Below is changelog for same. Compatible with Joomla! 2.5.x & 3.0.x Change Log - Bugs fixed #13217: Configuration for (Auto Play) of video ads#20388: Javascirpt error onclick review ad button. (bid_div is null)#20867: Changes to paymen...

JGive 1.5.2 is available for download to subscribers. This release fixes the bugs reported in version 1.5.1 and adds up some changes. Below is a changelog for the same. Compatible with Joomla! 2.5.x & 3.0.x PHP 5.3 or higher is needed Changelog for JGive v1.5.2 - Bugs fixed #19249 Wrong ids in campaign promoter filter options #19250 Fatal error...

Nobody can do it all. In web development and design, some projects are simply beyond the scope of a person or company’s expertise, time, or capabilities. Complex coding, custom extension development, or new, innovative elements may call for the help of a third party. Teaming up with the right outsourced expert– who has the specialization, knowledge...

As you know, we try & get our customers involved in the development process as much as possible. This helps us start a conversation & listen to ideas & feedback & help come out with better releases. As part of this initiative, we have our series of "Subscriber Connect" Newsletters & Blogs which keeps you abreast of what we are d...

Hey all, Invitex version2.7.3 is available now. We have fixed bugs reported in version 2.7.2. Find the changelog for same. Compatible with Joomla 2.5.x and 3.0.x Bugs Fixed- JBolo chat window does not load when "Use system plugin to send emails" config of Invitex is set to "Yes"Clicking on "Send" button on "Manual Reminder" view in backend always g...

Sometime around mid July, i got an email from one of our J!MailAlerts users - Scout Master Mike Lyman. He was looking for a Jevents plugin for J!MailAlerts & during our conversations, he came up with a really innovative way of sending JEvents Events via J!MailAlerts. I suggested he do a guest blog post for us about it, and he kindly complied. T...

In our last Post in the Zoo series, we looked at deleting records programmatically. Copying zoo item is not as easy as deleting records. You should have all the details including the zoo category of the zoo item which you want to copy. First, you should have all data of a zoo record. We have used the item API which gives zoo item's data & getRelatedCategoryIds which tells the relation of a zoo item to the categories.

Let's get the zoo records data first