CRE Loaded

Speed up product search for CRE Loaded

CRE Loaded provides a basic search where a product can be searched by product name, model and manufacturer. If selected search is also performed in product description. This search uses SQL “LIKE” syntax to search in text fields. For example is keyword “test” is search the query will be select distinct p.products_image … final_price from [...]

Adding SMTP server support in CRE Loaded 6.2

Till version 6.2 cre loaded was only capable of sending emails using sendmail program using php mail() function. Some time it happens that our site is hosted on shared hosting where same server IP is shared between many sites. These sites may include site which send spam emails and in result the server IP get [...]

Categories Breadcrumb not working, CRE Loaded Pro

I was amazed to see that Categories breadcrumb is not working http://demos.creloaded.com/creloaded_pro/index.php?cPath=3_10 on category pages. You can see proper cPath in url still the breadcrumb is missing. This happens on in CRE Loaded 6.4 PRO. Breadcrumb is not only important for visitors, it is also important for SEO aspect. The issue is due to bug [...]

Installing "Output Queries Debug" in CRE Loaded 6.4 PCI

Output Queries Debug is very useful contribution for osCommerce. This contribution captures each query used to construct a page and can be output if desired. This information can be very useful for developers working on CRE Loaded performance optimization. To see more details about the contribution please refer to this page. In this post we [...]

SEO URLs addon for CRE Loaded

SEO url is a commercial addon for converting links to SEO Friendly format. Almost every cre loaded site requests to have seo friendly urls. In CRE loaded 6.4 pro the addon has become built in feature. Over the time using this addons I realized a major issue regarding SEO. As you may know issue of [...]

CRE Loaded Block unwanted countries traffic by IP

One of site i worked on, was having a lot of crawler and normal visitor activities, from non targeted countries. For example it was having a lot of visitors and un friendly bots (crawlers) from India. This traffic was useless for the site because site was to serve Europe and US, still it was consuming [...]