Introduction

The Prestashop e-commerce platform allows users to leave feedback on individual products by leaving comments on each product. However, there is no method for users to leave feedback regarding the overall service of the shop. This module is designed to provide that functionality to store owners who wish to have this extra functionality. The module allows users to submit a testimonial for the store owner to approve. It also optionally supports reCaptcha as a form spam prevention method.

Compatibility

I have recently begun reading the book PrestaShop 1.3 Theming - Beginner's Guide. Theming is one of Prestashop's strong points and having a book on it is a handy way of learning some of the tricks to making a great looking shop.
When I have finished reading I will put up a review for it on this site. To be honest the fact that books like these are being published is a great sign that Prestashop is becoming a top choice for a shopping e-cart.

If you have forgotten the enable password to a Cisco 1800 series router you will need to recover it. This document discusses how to do that.

Requirements

Physical access to the router
A PC with a Serial Port
A Cisco rollover / console cable (the blue type)
A copy of Hyper-terminal or Putty. Hyper-terminal comes with windows and putty is a free download. For this article I will use putty.

Step 1.

Plug the Cisco console cable from your PC's serial port to the console port of the Cisco 1800.

There are occasions where you might need to update a group of products weight. Recently I had a whole bunch of products that were in correctly set as 2KG when they should have been set to 0.2KG (200 grams). I started off manually changing them and then thought..no thanks this will take all day.

Luckily mySQL is your friend!

Using this query I was able to update all products weight within a certain category from 2KG to 0.2KG.

I knew the category I wanted to update was category 3 so I ran the following query:


UPDATE ps_product
SET weight = 0.2
WHERE weight = 2

If you are starting a new web store with prestashop (or any shopping cart for that matter) you not want the first order you take to be identified as number 1. For some people that makes them look very new and doesn't help inspire confidence in the new shop. If you want to start your orders from a different starting point such as 100 this will tell you how.

You will need to alter your database slightly. This is not as complex as it sounds but it does require some caution. Make a backup of your database before making any changes.

Introduction

For those of you who need to create vector graphic art work there is a nifty open source (free) product called Inkscape. This is a product similar to Adobe Illustrator except of course it is free. Hard to imagine that anything so good could be free but there you go sometimes there is such thing as a free lunch!

Cartoon

What is it?

Prestashop is a powerful featured open source (free!) shopping cart solution. One feature it is lacking is the ability to take credit or payment card payments to process off line in with a payment card machine. You know one of those chip and pin things you swipe your card in. It is useful for shop owners who have a card machine but want to take payments on line using Prestashop. Ideal for owners who aren't quite ready to sign up to the sometimes bewildering world of merchant accounts!

Why did I make it

Introduction

Recently I had a few problems with my U.K based VPS host. My VPS went down and it took me some time to get it rebooted. When it did come back on line the VPS had lost the ability to do domain name look ups. This caused me issues as this machine relied upon this to send e-mails. It took me three days to ge the VPS back on line which was basically a total nightmare.

Introduction

Using Windows PowerShell to list domain controllers in each of the domains with an ADS forest

If ever you need to get the list all of the domain controllers within a forest you can use powershell to do it for you and write it to a file.

Note, of course your computer must Windows Powershell installed for this to work!

Here is how:

Create a new file with the following code on your computers file system. I am calling mine getDC.ps1 and i am saving it under c:\scripts