Initial import into 4.0. Collected files from acs-3.4.8 doc, doc/sql, tcl, admin/ecommerce, and ecommerce/ (and later from templates). Moved ad.ini params into ecommerce params.
ec_create_new_session_if_necessary (ecommerce-defs.tcl), redirects to the cookie chain were removed (as cookie chain strategy has been altered radically in 4.0 (removing the cookie-chain code.)
Our standard in the future is going to be that we always redirect the user to "www.sitename.com" if they try to access the site as "sitename.com". Then we can set cookies with Domain=.sitename.com and they will take effect on all cobranded sites. A better answer is not to use cookies at all (directly)! The new session-tracking facilities (see the security and session-tracking documentation) take care of managing session or persistent state for you in the database, securely if necessary.
-- Jon Salz, April 13, 2000
ad.ini params moved into ecommerce/styles package params.
Modified calls to ad_parameter to take into account package_id using [ec_id]. Ironically, this may take port a step backward and prevent it from being mounted more than once in a site. This can be relaxed by changing ec_id to find the "right" ecommerce package as opposed to the first one, (or whichever one it is finding.)
Wrapped ad_parameter calls with util_memoize -- I think the 4.0 ad_parameter is cool but quick benchmarking shows it is potentially very slow. The util_memoize call uses the value of ec_cache_refresh to periodically refresh the cache. (This should be simplified and built into ad_parameter if you ask me.)
Checked for nsssl and made ecommerce compatible with nsopenssl.
Checked for nsunix and made ecommerce compatible with nsunix.
Added ecommerce-security-procs to help make it easy to create links to and from secure pages. (Used code "repurposed" from David Rodriguez's ACS 3.4 events modules and enhanced for nsopenssl and nsunix compatibility.
Added kernel security parameter SecureLoginsRequiredP, which defaults to 1. For most ecommerce sites, this should probably be set to 0 by the site admin. The affect of this parameter is to lessen security somewhat, but to keep users from having to login twice, once for an http and once for an https session.
Later modified security_processor's sec_handler, as well as login pages in acs-subsite...register to emulate Amazon's behavior. When login on https is requested, email address of non-secure http user is presented.
More information can be found at ACS feature request 9767
tags-search-replace "/ecommerce/" "[ec_url]"
replaced calls to philg_email_valid_p with ad_page_contract ... email filter (in gift-certificates....)
changed references to table users_preferences to user_preferences.
changed references to table users to table cc_users
changed pages that made their own secure/insecure links to use ec_securelink (which securelink will fallback to an insecure link if that is all that is available.)
copied qmail.tcl from acs-3.4.8 to ecommerce/tcl/qmail-procs.tcl. Eventually, ecommerce should instead use the ACS 4.1 acs-mail system.
incorporated gift certificate fix from aD forum
got product search working, I needed to copy acs-3.4.8/www/doc/sql/pl-sql.sql to ecommerce/sql/pl-sql-utilities-create.sql. Also created a -drop script. Deleted functions and procs not used by ecommerce.
changed view ec_customer_service_reps to use cc_users and not users, checked that there were no other bad references to users in ecommerce-create.sql
started rationalizing outgoing email messages: blew through code (tags search) to ensure everyone gets the from address correctly (using the [ec ..] routine) so that ec_sendmail_from_service can put something better than just "Customer Service" on the from header.
in templates that send gift certs out change the link to include ecommerce mount point to get back to the store itself.
fix bug in admin/shipping-costs/edit involving validation of shipping charges (shipping weight)
imported ad_audit_trail facilities
fixed up nav bars and ec footers to point to "\[ec_system_name\] Home" and not just Home as sites might have multiple ecommerce packages mounted and to indicate that ecommerce home is not the same as site home
fixed up https links once more pointing to site home page
fixed up register/index and request processor so that a login page redirect by transition from http to https contains the email address of the user.
tags search replace of context_bar.*ecommerce to .. Ecommerce(\[ec_system_name\])
tags search, add ad_require_permission admin to all admin pages
fix up ec_navbar to offer admins an admin link
parameterized ImageMagick's convert utility (since it might not live in /usr/local/bin). Created an ecommerce package parameter, appropriately memoized getter function. Placed getter in admin/products/add-2 and edit-2.
checked for existence of convert utility (as more elegant than just catching failure)
checked for failure of convert utility as it runs
fixed url generation of images, given new structure of acs packages (not just under AOLservers webroot, but under package webroot)
removed registered proc that handles /product-file requests and converts them to real names, created product-file/index.vuh to return correct file
generalized a product's one line and detailed description so it could contain html, which it appears it used to but now cannot since ad_page_contract, defaults to using the filter :nohtml. How many more of these are there? Does it need to be :allhtml?
fixed a bug in ec_display_rating s/EcommerceDirectory/EcommerceDataDirectory/
tweaked product template in ecommerce-create.sql to display ec_navbar (and to make category_id available to template)
fixed up hardcoded www/admin to lookup url of acs-admin package to fix up links to /acs-admin/users/one
fixed up doc so that /admin/ecommerce is usually /ecommerce/admin or [ec_url]admin
replaced philg_quote_double_quotes with ad_quotehtml
replaced philg_hidden_imput with ec_hidden_input
Fixed ecommerce-create.sql to include country-code and state fields that Janine commented out.
Tuned checkout pipeline, ensuring that it's https if possible the entire time, that users are logged in, that there are no links out of pipeline (not a requirement, just a "selling" focus) until final page, that the navbar changes to show the various steps in the checkout pipeline ala amazon, and that on final page, links away are insecure and direct the visitor back to http mode.
moved ad_adp_function_p to ec_adp_function_p, mainly used in taking submission of templates from admins but restricting them to template without tcl functions, and made the behavior subject to an ecommerce style paramter. Changed the complaints to use ad_return_complaint.
fixed bug in add member to mailing list which forgot (unlike acs3 user-search to add percents around pattern to wildcard: %pattern%
fixed two bugs in items-add-(2 3). In items-add-2, use ec_add_to_cart_link instead of ec_add_to_cart_link_sub. In items-add-3, change sytle to style. Did anyone ever user/report this?
made sure that product directory can be outside webroot so that uploaded .tcl/.adp, etc. files cannot be executed with a webhit.
fix queries in customer-service/actions.tcl and statistics.tcl to use cc_users
fix bug in email-send failing when there is no customer email address
fix bug in admin/sales-tax/clear-2.tcl which called ec_audit_delete_row with a "wildcard" of "", something beyon the simple API of ec_audit_delete_row.
collect addresses of gift certificate people
better utilize ad_page_contract contracts and filters
did a tags query replace for users to
cc_users
make gift certificate claim checks a link
need to resolve the last modifying user during package creation time, setting it to user_id of initializer?
add yourself to email link is annoying, it should not display if you are already subscribed
should products be able to be in both a subcategory AND a category at the same time? If yes, change admin/products/edit-2.tcl
generalize search to search through all categories, or store, or site
generalize product templates to be mapped to subcategories and subsubcategories.
place all references to ad_parameters into an ec_parameters tcl file
cleanup meaning of "no shipping" -- is this strictly for services (e.g. software development), downloadable products, etc. or does this reflect something else (e.g. hole in database initialization). Perhaps parameterize display of "no shipping" so that sites can make that display as "services", or "downloads."
add an inventory module
add a top level link to admin/orders/fulfillment-items-needed
add downloads of data in csv or excel form to get into spreadsheets
create page (or module) specific doc and add links to those doc pages
add top level page to view various logs, including ec_automatic_email_log, ec_spam_log
fix back button back to a form in ssl mode (known to expire immediately)
As usual aD module is meant to create, not maintain. In this case, ec_sessions and ec_orders are created but never deleted
replace ec_sessions with ad_sessions
reengineer to prevent url hacking
Order emails do not contain an order number or a tracking link
Gift cert emails don't contain a link back to the site to automagically redeem the gift cert
audit tables are often not working
make user classes more interesting
offer ability to add one, multiple, or all members from a search to class
add some data mining (people who purchased in last n days, got refunds, bought more than x, bought ...
parameterize the classes (bought more than X days, or bought more than Y)
add complex searches to them bought more than AND bought from category
add a QBE interface to search
unify ec tables with acs object system, esp wrt. permissions and audit trails
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