This is the only hack you need to have for the category images. This hack will take care of the image while upload or do it dynamically from the frontend, putting a settings on the backend. Since this is an ultimate hack, it construct with several files and line of code to complete this hack: so please stay close attention.
Files we are going to work with
- administrator/components/com_virtuemart/classes/imageTools.class.php
- administrator/components/com_virtuemart/classes/ps_config.php
- administrator/components/com_virtuemart/classes/ps_product_category.php
- administrator/components/com_virtuemart/languages/admin/english.php
- administrator/components/com_virtuemart/html/admin.show_cfg.php
- components/com_virtuemart/themes/default/templates/common/categoryChildlist.tpl.php
What this hack does
- Extra Admin Panel for Category images Controlling
- Configurable Dynamic Category Image (Seperate from original dynamic thumbnail)
- Configurable Full Category Image resize upon upload
- One simple click to enable dynamic category thumb
- Dynamic Category Full Image resize upon upload
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Several of our client complaint that Virtuemart are not displaying the discount price instantly, that cause them the problem, when they speak to there customer. People are not seeing the pricing correctly. We know that this is not a bug in virutemart but rather a extra add-on that the development team had added. But what if the client joomla’s session lifetime is setup to be 1500 minutes, then the price will never be updated. Trusted me, this happen a lot. So we have disable the session cache on the get_discount on virtuemart.
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This hack is best suit for people that had already change the session lifetime. If you have ever tweak the session settings on the Global Settings, you will need to have this hack in order to display correct online user stats. For example if you had set your session lifetime to 90 minutes, your online user stats will be the frame within the 90 minutes. This is usually the case when we want to extend the time of login, but we will still want to have the real user online stats over maybe 10-20 minutes. So what should we do?
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