NukeCoder

Joined: Dec 13, 2005 Posts: 107

ive just read the shop description and unfortunately i don't think i will be upgrading.

1) I use PHP Version 4 and
2) You have encoded the script which makes it very un-user friendly

Sorry to be ignorant but i like my purchased scripts to be 100% user friendly and be able to make minor cosmetic edits to suite my sites needs, if you have encoded it all then i cant see how this is possible.

Site Admin Joined: Oct 25, 2004 Posts: 921

It is very possible to customize the hell out of this. It uses smarty templates to format and display everything and also allows you to add custom php. The best part is, you can have multiple layouts and select which to use from the configuration. This version should actually be easier to customize than the previous versions. And to top it all off, you don't lose your customizations when you upgrade to newer versions.

I went to great lengths to keep this script highly customizable while still being able to keep it protected. Most files are encoded, but the ones that really count when it comes to customizing are left un-encoded. It really hurts me when I sell a script to someone and they turn around and give it to all their friends or offer it as a free download. I saw no other way to keep this from happening and I really didn't want to encode my scripts. I had to spend $250 on the encoder if that gives you an idea of the losses I've already be hit with. If someone bought one of your themes and started giving it away like crazy, what would you do?

I understand you don't have php5, but alot of hosts are upgrading to php5 and at the time I started writing this, I couldn't justify not taking advantage of php5's features. If necessary, I'll make a version for php4, but if you are still not interested in that either then I understand.

At least just download it and look in the templates folder. That will give you an idea of how customizable it actually is. Ideally, you would just copy the default template to another folder and customize it to fit your needs.

Site Admin Joined: Oct 25, 2004 Posts: 921

btw, I'm running the same encoded version here on this site and it works well. The host I'm using is on the front page Wink

Joined: Dec 13, 2005 Posts: 107

Yeah i see your annoances with idiots sharing stuff and especially giving stuff away free, that winds me up something cronic...

And with all these theme GPL issues being thrown out of the windows..

Ill give you credit it looks really great, i just hope your support will be here if/or things go pearshape

BTW htttp://nukecoder.com/shop_purchases.html isnt working for me i get an error in Firefox and no page at all in IE OMG just look at me being an idiot .... lol its HTTTP and not HTTP .. lol ill try now

Im willing to upgrade the script as it does look very nice, good job

Posted: Sat Dec 30, 2006 3:18 pm

I think one of xGSTQ's concerns is that we might not be able to utilize digital shop as we are now. If you haven't taken a look yet you will notice that I added the ability for multiple authors to sell there themes/scripts and multiple currency's.

It wasn't very very hard to do as simply all that separates an author in paypal's eyes is an email address.

Anyway this key feature is very important to the site itself as it allows authors to come together to offer multiple services.

Site Admin Joined: Oct 25, 2004 Posts: 921

That feature is available in the "single item mode"
Each item can me assigned a different owner/paypal email address

If there is now owner assigned to the item, it will fall back to the default set in the config

Posted: Sat Dec 30, 2006 3:33 pm

0 really? Then its a must have.

Posted: Sat Dec 30, 2006 3:39 pm

Man not sure how I missed that in the description

Quote:

Single Item Mode allows multiple users to sell products in the shop and get paid directly for each purchase. This is great when users will normally be buying one item at a time also.

What features of this require php 5? Also how much begging does a php 4 version take and if a 4 version is coded will those 5 features be lost forever?

Site Admin Joined: Oct 25, 2004 Posts: 921

Thank You.
I will definitely be here to support it. I am eager to get your feedback
and I'm ready to start working on the next minor release.

xGSTQ wrote:

Yeah i see your annoances with idiots sharing stuff and especially giving stuff away free, that winds me up something cronic...

And with all these theme GPL issues being thrown out of the windows..

Ill give you credit it looks really great, i just hope your support will be here if/or things go pearshape

BTW htttp://nukecoder.com/shop_purchases.html isnt working for me i get an error in Firefox and no page at all in IE OMG just look at me being an idiot .... lol its HTTTP and not HTTP .. lol ill try now

Im willing to upgrade the script as it does look very nice, good job

Site Admin Joined: Oct 25, 2004 Posts: 921

It really won't take much begging, but I would first ask if switching to a host that supports php5 is an option?

Basically, I wrote the majority of the code as classes the php5 way.
Some of it has to do with having functions being public,private, or protected.
Other things make it more efficient like creating only one instance, static methods, etc. Writing it for php4 would lose some of those capabilities, but doesn't really mean it would lose functionality. My thought is why not take advantage of php5? php6 is already in the works and many hosts are upgrading to php5 or providing options to run switch between 4 and 5.

floppy wrote:

Man not sure how I missed that in the description

Quote:

Single Item Mode allows multiple users to sell products in the shop and get paid directly for each purchase. This is great when users will normally be buying one item at a time also.

What features of this require php 5? Also how much begging does a php 4 version take and if a 4 version is coded will those 5 features be lost forever?

Posted: Sat Dec 30, 2006 4:32 pm

I will have to get xGSTQ to check into that php 5 as it is his host and one of us will get back to you.

Very Happy

Site Admin Joined: Oct 25, 2004 Posts: 921

Like I said before, there is a great deal on hosting on my front page and it for sure runs well as this site uses dreamhost as well.(honestly, yes there is something in it for me if you use them, but that is beside the point Smile

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Joined: Dec 09, 2006 Posts: 335

In accordance with GNU GPL I assume you will be making an unencrypted source available to purchasers in order to comply with the terms of GPL?

Isn't this GPL thing an absolute PAIN!!

Site Admin Joined: Oct 25, 2004 Posts: 921

nope, cause nuke is not required to run it. take nuke away and it will continue to run with only a couple adjustments of paths.

Joined: Dec 09, 2006 Posts: 335

Outstanding!!!
I may buy this yet Smile

Unfortunately I'm stuck with PHP 4.x.x at the moment until I can get another Dedicated srver.