setting up phplivesupport on windows | apache

For our respected customers, we added some live support on our page. Usually installing a script like this is a matter of a few minutes. Not so this script. If you have set the option -Indexes in your conf file of apache, this script will not be installable.

Even requesting help from the vendors page didn’t bring up any more information. Fumbling around here’s what finally succeeded:

a) Add a .htaccess file to your phplive installation folder.
b) Go and change / add the /setup/index.php with following code:


$dir = $_SERVER['DOCUMENT_ROOT'];
$dir .= “phplive/”;


Put this on top of the index.php Then replace these lines:

if ( file_exists( “../web”))

and all similar following calls with this:

if ( file_exists( $dir. “web” ))

That’s it, after these changes, the script could be installed on a windows / apache system.

mooSlide for mootools 1.2

Due to many requests to rewrite the mooSlide snippet for the mootools 1.2 framework we’ve done it, and you can download it right away here:

mooSlide for mootools 1.2

In addition we have added the functionality to load external content instead of having the content div on the page and make it hidden via CSS.

XT:Commerce - remember customer bank info

XT:Commerce does not store, or better said, does not automatically fill the fields of a customers bank information when he had previously bought something via bank transfer. Banktransfer update does the trick.

It also includes a page for XT:Commerce on which the customer can easily change his bank information, if you have provided it once.

XT:Commerce price to image

Having seen this in various online shops, I decided to write my own function for the xt commerce shop, which enables you to display new products on the index page with prices that are images. This can help promoting your articles a lot better and, in addition, have the cheap price ( hopefully ) move over parts of the image so it will look like one image at all.

In fact, you can choose any style you like, as the images are pre-produced as gifs, so just create them in the font of your choice, copy the module in your shop folder and you’re all set.

Here’s a demo image from a shop we’re currently developing:

If you want this for your own shop, go and get your copy here: XT Commerce price to image