PrestaShop - Any Takers?

[apmuthu]

Looks like there are quite a lot of webmasters moving their eShops from osCommerce and Zen-Cart to PrestaShop - thanks to it's slick user interface - still a bit USA / Canada centric. Other countries are listed by their continents even if they have States.

If there is anyone interested in using PrestaShop as a ProxMox Virtual Machine (OpenVZ container), do shout! Almost all my DAB Appliance posts are not getting any replies / feedback despite quite a number of views.

Here is the general method I used inside one of the existing containers:

cd /var/www
wget [URL="http://sourceforge.net/projects/prestashop/files/prestashop%20v1/1.3.1%20final/prestashop_1.3.1.zip/download"]http://sourceforge.net/projects/prestashop/files/prestashop%20v1/1.3.1%20final/prestashop_1.3.1.zip/download[/URL]
unzip prestashop_1.3.1.zip
chown -R www-data:www-data prestashop
cd prestashop
find ./ -type d -exec chmod 755 {} \;
find ./ -type f -exec chmod 644 {} \;

Now install using Browser by visiting http://ipaddress/install

zip -r install-prestashop.zip install
rm -r install
rm readme_*.txt
mv admin adminT99

Now access the admin area at http://ipaddress/adminT99/

touch .htaccess
chmod 666 .htaccess
touch robots.txt
chmod 666 robots.txt

Proceed to Admin -> Tools -> Generate - and generate both files. Now protect the two files permissions:

chmod 644 .htaccess robots.txt

 

[apmuthu]

The currently downloadable version (in the 1.3.x series) though listed as v1.3.1 has been re-uploaded and is labelled internally as v1.3.1.1 as of 03rd June 2010 pertaining to SVN 2349 according to the CHANGELOG. Since then, several bugfixes have been made and the current SVN as of today stands at 2490. The anonymous SVN is accessible at:

[URL]http://svn.prestashop.com/branches/1.3.x/[/URL]

 

[apmuthu]

The list of files that have changed since the release of PrestaShop v1.3.1.1 (SVN 2349) till now (SVN 2513) have been extracted and analyzed. It is found that the French and the Spanish language files have been updated, the English ones are stagnant (possibly the involved translation function is dependent on the English strings in the code / system errors and only exceptions need to be 'translated').

The Mexican State list has been added addressed by changes in the sql while installation (and upgradation for a couple of previous versions).

The xml for the html generated is no longer the default french, but is now dynamically delivered as per the ISO of the browser requesting it.

As this board does not accept more than 97 KB as a Zip file attachment, download the difference file set (between the release and the SVN) here.

The admin-dev and install-dev folders in the SVN should be renamed as admin and install respectively.

The config/config.inc.php file for the SVN has the debug settings turned on which should be reverted to the release settings. The addition to this file is a variable for SSL and
a deletion of the upload_max_filesize ini_set variable definition.