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See the "Getting Started" guide.
Here the answer in English and in French.
PrestaShop is issued under the Open Software License (OSL) v. 3.0.
See the Designer Guide.
See the documentation on the Import tool.
In previous version of PrestaShop, you had to manually generate a new .htaccess
file after having enabled friendly URLs. This is no longer the case since version 1.5: the .htaccess
file is now silently managed by PrestaShop, and you do not have to worry about it.
See the documentation on the SEO & URLs preferences page.
This is done in the "Translations" page of the "Localization" menu.
See the documentation on the "Localization" menu.
You can obtain all payments modules on PrestaShop's Add-Ons site.
Many payments modules for several banks and payments process are available. You will be able to accept credit card payments and payments in several times.
This is done in the "Currency" page of the "Localization" menu.
See the documentation on the "Localization" menu.
Use the Google Adsense module.
Note that the Google Adsense module can be used to display ad code from any ad service, not just the ones from Google Adsense.
Here is the standard Windows instructions are:
php.ini
file.extension=php_gd2.dll
line (about half-way through the file, in the middle of a long list of extensions) by deleting the ;
at the start of the line.If you cannot edit the server settings, contact your host.
Go to the "Modules" page, and install the Paypal module. Do not forget to configure it!
See the documentation for the "Modules" menu, mostly the "Installing a payment module" section.
You need to associate the product to the homepage category. For each product you want displayed on the front-page, open the "Association" tab and select the "Home" category, in addition to the already-checked category.
See the documentation for the "Associations" tab of the "Catalog" page.
Go to the "Taxe" and "Tax rules" pages of the "Localization" menu
See the documentation for the "Localization" menu.
See the page on updating your version of PrestaShop.
See the "Making the native modules work" chapter of the documentation, for the "Modules" page.
Install the "RSS products feed" module, from the "Modules" page.
Everything happens in the "Merchandise returns" of the "Orders" menu.
See the documentation for the Orders menu.
In the back-office, navigate to "Preferences" > "CMS", and select the pages you want to edit.
The default theme for PrestaShop features an image slider. You can edit that slider by configuring the "Image slider for your homepage" module, which can be found in the "Modules" page of the back-office.
The default theme also features a block containing featured products. The products displayed are the ones which are associated with the home-page along with their default category (see the question above). This slider is managed using the "Featured Products on the homepage" module, which can be found in the "Modules" page of the back-office. You can remove the slider from the homepage by uninstalling the module, or you can set the number of products to be displayed by configuring the module (click the "Configure" button for the module in the "Modules" page).
Some themes feature a default text on the homepage. This text is often managed by the "Home text editor" module, which can be found in the "Modules" page of the back-office. You can remove the text from the homepage by uninstalling the module, or you can set the content of the text (including its static image) by configuring the module (click the "Configure" button for the module in the "Modules" page).
Those blank pages are a HTTP 500 error. You can see that more properly by viewing the shop in the Chrome browser. Read more about it here:
This is a server error, which means that either the server has an issue, or the website's programming (ie., PrestaShop itself) has had something wrong happen.
HTTP 500 being a very general error, you will need more information in order to pinpoint where the problem is. You can do so by enabling the debug messages. Follow these instructions:
using your FTP client, go to your web server’s FTP, and open the file "defines.inc.php", which is in the "config" folder. There's a bunch of text, then this appears:
/* Debug only */ define('_PS_MODE_DEV_', false); if (_PS_MODE_DEV_) |
change that second line: replace "false" with "true" (without quotes). It should now read:
/* Debug only */ define('_PS_MODE_DEV_', true); if (_PS_MODE_DEV_) |
The "dev" mode is now enabled, and more detailed error messages should display. Use that to find where the problem lies – it could be a module, a section of the theme, or maybe even PrestaShop itself.
Once you have fixed the issue and error messages do not appear anymore, change the edited line back to "false".
CMS pages are built using a WYSIWYG system, which is based on the popular TinyMCE (http://www.tinymce.com/). When creating or editing a page, the editor presents a series of button, used to format and improve the text.
The "Upload" button is located int the bottom row of the interface:
In many countries, professionals are used to see prices displayed without the tax (even if the tax is indeed included in the final invoice).
This is not set up by default, but you you can easily put that in place for some select users. Regular users will still see the prices including taxes.
Now go to the "Customers" page, and for each professional customer:
This way, the clients marked as professionals will see prices without taxes as soon as they connect to their account. Visitors, guest and regular clients will still see tax-included prices.
The maintenance page is actually a regular template file, located in your theme's folder.
You should therefore be able to find it in the name of maintenance.tpl
, in the /themes/your_theme
folder.
Open the maintenance.tpl
file with a text editor, and edit at will. Be careful not to break the Smarty tags (marked {tag}
or {/tag}
) ; make sure to keep a backup in the folder, for instance under the name maintenance-originalFile.tpl
.
The request to reset the password only works if the SMTP server has been configured so that PrestaShop is able to send emails.
Two solutions present themselves to you:
login.php
file, located in your administration folder online.echo md5( PSQL( _COOKIE_KEY_ . 'newpassword' ) );
echo md5( PSQL( _COOKIE_KEY_ . '$$$rabbit$159$$$' ) );
ps_employee
table, replace the existing value in the passwd
column for the employee of which you want to change the password with the value obtained in the previous step. Save your changes.