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hi,  why would it never publish a review when you submit it for the extensions store http://marketplace.algozone.com ?
Haven't seen any reviews from other users as well (it always says "Be the first to write a review"). 
Feedback is important since the extensions' descriptions are pretty scarce.  Thanks!

Only manually...  using System>Data>Backup/Restore as a basis,  to export some products and product_descriptions data.
Or maybe this one extension could help export some stuff in a spreadsheet format:
  http://marketplace.algozone.com/admin-grids-excel-export.html
Also you could get in touch with authors of facebook extension at algozone:
  http://marketplace.algozone.com/facebook-google-login.html

Exactly. Since XMLs are loaded into the cart's SQL only once (at the initial cart setup), in order for someone to change the spelling she would have to work with the System > Language Definitions filtering out a block name as  "mail" ,   possibly to get lost in 3 pages of keys and translations. To select the right key,  non-coders have to sign up as a test customer and trace back the key by the text in an email notification received in the Inbox.

While doable, there are situations when right block/key pair is too hard to guess from its name without checking the code.  On the one hand, editing Definitions is cool and straightforward when you get used to it. On the other, we don't know if this is correct approach to rely on the Definitions that much in the cart.

We understand it's difficult to implement things like this --  http://forum.abantecart.com/index.php/topic,1253.0.html :  simple WYSIWYG editor will not work because notifications are made of placeholders, not just a free text; and to combine both, you'd need something like the Design layout screen Lee mentioned.  Or users would need to learn every placeholder and put it into the editor text themselves...  Would it become a placeholder nightmare prone to errors and make the cart overly complex?   Just thinking how to facilitate managing that for new AC admins without making it worse.   Maybe an easy way to find the right block/key pair for a non-coder would be OK,  like a documented layout of each notification where each block/key pair is shown near default text, formatted as image or PDF doc linked from the admin panel ?  It could be just part of the ecommerce-documentation, if there was way to make sure that new AC user would know it's there (currently there's no definite screen to link the help icon to, for the notifications).

Wish we could remove that Logo image from all e-mailed notifications, anyway.. 

Thank you, guys! We have looked into GA and found we don't really need it: flying colors and fancy features are fun but all we do check sometimes is an overall trend (no matter that bots are included) where default cpanel's Awstats is pefectly fit (even more). The only thing we did miss was GA's feature Site Search, so we tweaked the storefront/controller/pages/product/search.php to store the searched keywords locally:

if (isset($this->request->get['keyword'])) {
file_put_contents('../tmp/words', date('Y-m-d H:i:s').' -> '.trim($this->request->get['keyword']).PHP_EOL, FILE_APPEND);
}

No (as well as we do no adwords), having some basic data from awstats and webmaster seemed to suffice so far, and we had little or no time to explore other options. Thanks for tip, we'll try and look into that direction.

In continuation of older topic on cart's Reports improvements ( http://forum.abantecart.com/index.php/topic,1391.msg5483.html#msg5483 ) -
is there a way to see what product names (keywords) did customers try to look for using abantecart's Search block ?
There's currently no such thing in the Reports in admin.
Maybe it's possible to somehow edit a file like 
storefront/view/default_html5/template/blocks/search_top.tpl
storefront/controller/blocks/search.php
so that it echoes each  $text_keyword  into a plain-text file on filesystem that we could read later on ?   Thanks!

Thanks a ton!!   We've integrated the change into our  admin/controller/pages/design/content.php  and it works great!

Yeah, if only there was a way to update the Content Manager only.. We've got some customisations and cannot upgrade the system before we are ready.
Additionally, we used to carry out upgrades via the cart's Update Manager in the admin panel to track any possible errors,  as this is highly sensitive process!
Anyway, here's how the issue can be repeated easily on any abantecart installation:

1. Create any quick content page as usual, title and some content, save it.
2. Modify page's Title to be 65 characters, and attempt to save it with the "Save" button at the bottom of the page, to generate warning:
  Content Title must be between 2 and 64 characters!
It is important to use that specific button at bottom because the JQGrid's button near the Title would skip validator and save it ok regardless.
3. After you saw the red warning, correct the Title back to <=64 chars to comply, and once again press the "Save" at the bottom.
You should now have the page disappeared.

Yes, we did:
http://forum.abantecart.com/index.php/topic,1274.0.html

Thanks for the sources!  We've checked the Content Manager files like
  core/lib/content_manager.php
  admin/controller/pages/design/content.php
and seeing a lot of changes indeed, but replacing these two files only appears potentially unsafe for trying over existing online content.
Since we are not yet ready for full 6->8 upgrade at this time, we'll wait till it can be arranged on our side after 1.1.8 release.
Will surely let you know if it gets fixed by that version.

Looks like you need to replace a SALT key in ~/public_html/system/config.php with the key from your original installation:
   http://forum.abantecart.com/index.php/topic,426.0.html
   http://forum.abantecart.com/index.php/topic,119.0.html

But there is more to it if you happened to have enabled customers' data encryption previously:
   http://forum.abantecart.com/index.php/topic,1564.0.html
   http://www.abantecart.com/ecommerce-documentation/82-admin-user-manual/specific-manuals/encryption-data-manager/107-encryption-data-manager
   http://www.abantecart.com/ecommerce-documentation/50-admin-user-manual/system/settings/39-settings
   
Also, if it's mainly about your customers login but not the admin users, make sure it isn't because you have switched this parameter:
System>Settings>Checkout>Require Login Name:
"To improve security, require customers to create unique login name instead of using email address as login name. If set to ON, existing customers will be asked to create new login name at the first login. If OFF, login name is set as customer email address."

maybe it helps

Not sure it was "operator error". You can fix "Allowed memory size" errors with following fix from abantecart:
http://forum.abantecart.com/index.php/topic,980.msg5907.html#msg5907

But the subsequent mess that you got in tables "content" and "content_description" could be linked to another related bug:
http://forum.abantecart.com/index.php/topic,1616.0.html

There is a little scary bug in 1.1.6 (maybe 1.1.7 too?) related to saving Design/Content pages  ( SQL tables 'contents' and 'content_descriptions').
It happens this way.  Sometimes, when updating existing pages contents, occasionally you may have a field error related to certain field's validators like:
  Required Data has not been entered. Check for field errors!
  Content Title must be between 2 and 64 characters!
  Content must be more than 1 characters!
  etc..

So, you follow the instruction and modify the Title (or the Content, etc) properly and hit on Save... and after it says something like "Success: You have modified a page!", what you see is Content Manager blank, cause the page you were editing just disappeared from both Admin and Store altogether!

You start checking db and discover, the page is still present in the 'content_descriptions' and 'pages' and 'page_descriptions' tables, but  was wiped out from the 'contents'. You can insert into 'contents' values manually in mysql and you will be able to see the page but the bug is still there, and intermittently hampers editing pages deleting them  from 'contents'

Basically, when any error (be it the 64 characters Title limit; or Content > 1 character; or any other error like the Allowed memory size from http://forum.abantecart.com/index.php/topic,1285.0.html ) occurs, it somehow interrupts the page editing process in the Content Manager, drops the reference to 'contents' table stored in the memory, and after pressing on Save to the bottom it is gone.

Something in the ~/public_html/system/logs/error.txt  *prior* that  App Warning?

The warning itself is very common and can be seen in the log even on healthy Abantecart installation. The past records on forum indicate there may be different causes of it, even though the text of the warning is always the same;  probably, it makes sense to improve this warning's reporting in the Abantecart by adding verbosity in the code as to what has caused the warning exactly(?)...

Your blank page suggests there may be a PHP error thrown. You can check if your  "display_errors" PHP directive enabled by creating a .php file in your ~/public_html with this content:

<?php
phpinfo();
?>

Then check the output by calling it in a browser, something like  freakytikihammocks.com/zzz.php
If that's found to be set to Off, you can enable it in  ~/public_html/php.ini  manually by adding :
display_errors stdout   (for PHP >=5.2.4)
display_errors = On (for PHP <5.2.4)

Also, anything in Apache error_log or the Error Log thing in cpanel ?

Thanks much for the info!   Have totally missed this extension due to the lack of extensions Search.  Do you know if there are any advantages to using this tool compared to free online generators like www.web-site-map.com/xml-sitemap.jpg or www.xml-sitemaps.com ?