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vBcover
07-14-2009, 04:17 AM
This is a major release, so we jumped from 1.64 to 1.70. There is also a small price increase of that product and existing customers are not affected.

Categories have been fine tuned, laying up the ground for physical items in version 2.0. "Items" in admincp menu has been renamed to "Digital Items."

If upgrading, after importing the product, edit any existing category, do nothing and save.



Option to display products or categories in main page and left menu
Old mode is to display products. If displaying categories a new slider option has been added. Slider Images are controlled in screenshots screen.
Products pagination has been added
Items count per category has been added.
Option to display categories in forum home (you edit your main forum php - index.php to add 'covercartcats' in the $specialtemplates array - and add $forumcart where you want them to display in FORUMHOME template. I placed mine above the commented 'main'). It is done this way so no extra queries are added. You also need to set in vboptions how many categories per row
At the request of many designers, almost everything has been added in the template system
Option to gather additional information from customers before downloading
Option to use MaxMind telephone verification system, in order to combat fraud. Phone numbers are instantly verified.
Option to manually approve downloads
Option to watch users behind proxies, the favorite tool of thieves, and to instantly disable account.
Option to bypass proxy watch for the rare customers who use proxies.
Featured products option. You set that in the product screen
Option to allow download of previous versions like vBulletin does. When you change version in a product, you will be redirected to a new screen. Items screen also handles previous versions. Every version of course needs to have a different folder name and you set the path for that version.
Numerous hooks have been added

<hook>vbcart_start</hook>
<hook>vbcart_end</hook>
<hook>vbcart_product_start</hook>
<hook>vbcart_order_license_start</hook>
<hook>vbcart_order_service_start</hook>
<hook>vbcart_product_end</hook>
<hook>vbcart_order_start</hook>
<hook>vbcart_order_license_end</hook>
<hook>vbcart_order_service_end</hook>
<hook>vbcart_order_end</hook>
<hook>vbcart_addservice_start</hook>
<hook>vbcart_addservice_end</hook>
<hook>vbcart_viewcart_start</hook>
<hook>vbcart_viewcart_end</hook>
<hook>vbcart_checkout_start</hook>
<hook>vbcart_checkout_end</hook>
<hook>vbcart_memberarea_start</hook>
<hook>vbcart_memberarea_end</hook>
<hook>vbcart_license_start</hook>A special thanks goes to William of www.forumthemes.com (http://www.forumthemes.com) for helping me in the beta testing. If you want to change the look of your vBcart, I highly recommend him. Every version of vBcart he worked on is unique and hard to believe it's vBcart.

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