Hello All,
I have a nice little shopping site up and running and I'm now looking to extend it beyond the basic shopping cart with some custom scripts embedded within the site. I know I cannot simply add PHP code to Content pages so I started wondering what the best way would be to actually accomplish this.

Can I create a new static page by duplicating/modifying an existing one like the "Contact" page? I imagine I would need a new copy of the .PHP and .TPL files but what else should I modify? Forgive my ignorance as I've been tinkering with PHP for a while but I'm just learning a properly organized MVC like Abantecart.

Thanks in advance!
-Ericles

All too many folks find their way to these forums because they have problems and the first thing anyone hears is complaints.
So I'll start with a Thank You!
I've been playing around with a half dozen different store-front/shopping cart options and I found each one to be either too cumbersome or lacking what I consider to be the basics. Until I tried Abantecart. 

I've found the forums here to be a useful support tool but I couldn't find a solution to my current problem. I'm seeing the "Unknown AJAX Error" in a few places. Most notably when clicking a button in the "Main Page Banner Slider" and when adding an item to a cart when using a text entry option for that product. This was documented in a recent thread but I'm starting a new topic since we're at 1.1.9 now.

Checking FireBug I found two red warnings in the console when clicking the Add To Cart after entering something in a text input option:
  POST ... /index.php?rt=r/product/product/get_option_resources&attribute_value_id=8646
  POST ... index.php?rt=r/product/product/calculateTotal
Neither post seems to have a response.

There was no message in the Firebug Console when clicking a text button in the banner slider.

I couldn't figure out any cause for the error so rather than try to dissect the Java/AJAX I removed the display of the errors instead.

Edit:
  \storefront\view\default_html5\javascript\custom.js
Comment out line 71:
  // showMsg( 'AJAX Error', error_text, function () { } );

Whatever this error actually indicates, there does not seem to be any problems with the operation of the site. I'm willing to pretend the messages aren't there just because I can't see them. 

Hopefully this helps someone either debug the error or work around it.

-Eric

I've only recently started playing with Abantecart. I used Softaculous to install it on my test domain and was prepared to spend a few hours migrating it to the live domain when I stumbled into this thread. Saved me a lot of time. 

how did you Clone using Softaculous?  And it cloned your DB also?
Could you post your steps here?

To clone an install with Softaculous, click the Brown Box icon at the top to bring up all of your installations then the Two Pages icon at the right. Fill in your new domain and make any other necessary changes and you're done.