CubeCart V3.0.18 has been around for about 10 days now. We’ve received a number of emails asking how they can upgrade their store from V3.0.17. Both our Biome and Catalyst skins are based on CubeCart V3.0.17. Unfortunately, two of the files that have been changed in the latest release (V3.0.18) will overwrite modifications made when you installed Biome or Catalyst. Effectively, this means that you will need to manually make changes to 2 files. Not to worry… It’s very quick to do.
Firstly, ensure that you completely installed Biome or Catalyst on a V3.0.17 store and that you have NOT installed any modifications outside those included with the skin. If you have installed modifications outside those included with the skin, you will need to contact the authors of those modifications.
You will now need to download the changed files package (adapted for Biome and Catalyst) - Download. You should extract the files contained within the archive to a safe location on your computer.
You will now need to perform a complete backup of your entire CubeCart directory. Please do not skip this step as if something goes wrong, your CubeCart store may not function.
Once you have taken a complete backup of your store, you will need to upload the contents of the downloaded archive to your CubeCart root directory (i.e. the directory on your host server where CubeCart is installed). You may be prompted to overwrite the existing files - you should accept.
You will now need to manually make the following modifications (please download the files to your computer before making modifications):
OPEN: admin/products/index.php
FIND:
$googleBaseContent = "product_url\tname\tdescription\timage_url\tprice\r\n";
REPLACE WITH:
$googleBaseContent = "id\tproduct_url\tname\tdescription\timage_url\tprice\r\n";
FIND:
$googleBaseContent .= $glob['storeURL']."/index.php?act=viewProd&productId=".$results[$i]['productId']."\t".$name."\t".$desc;
REPLACE WITH:
$googleBaseContent .= $results[$i]['productId']."\t".$glob['storeURL']."/index.php?act=viewProd&productId=".$results[$i]['productId']."\t".$name."\t".$desc;
SAVE, CLOSE & UPLOAD: admin/products/index.php
OPEN: admin/includes/navigation.inc.php
FIND:
<a href="http://www.cubecart.com" target="_blank"><img src="<?php echo $GLOBALS['rootRel']; ?>admin/images/ccAdminLogo.gif" width="177" border="0" height="96" /></a>
REPLACE WITH:
<a href="http://www.cubecart.com" target="_blank"><img src="<?php echo $GLOBALS['rootRel']; ?>admin/images/ccAdminLogo.gif" width="156" border="0" height="31" /></a>
SAVE, CLOSE & UPLOAD: admin/includes/navigation.inc.php
Once you have made the above modifications, you will have updated your store to V3.0.18 and retained all the modifications bundled with either ShopDev’s Catalyst of Biome CubeCart skin. If you have any questions, please do drop me an email and I will be happy to assist you.
