How to view your WHMCS Template before you upload it

WHMCS uses Smarty templates which can be setup on your PC to view your changes before you upload them.
Of course there are some linits as the variables must be set for each page which make it a bit of a task.

But if all you want to do is edit the header and footer then I have done the work for you.

Create a index.php file and add the following to it.

<?php
 // put full path to Smarty.class.php
require('libs/Smarty.class.php');
$smarty = new Smarty();

$smarty->assign('companyname',your title here');  //<<-- Your Company Title
$smarty->assign('systemurl','http://localhost/');  //<<-- place the url here
$smarty->setTemplateDir('templates/default');  //<<-- this and the next two must match exact your folder names.
$smarty->setCompileDir('templates_c');
$smarty->setCacheDir('cache');

$smarty->assign('template','default');  //<<- Set it to template folder name and do not change anything below this.
$smarty->assign('charset','utf-8');
$smarty->assign('LANG' , array('hometitle'=>'Home','announcementstitle'=>'Announcements',
                               'knowledgebasetitle'=>'Knowledgebase',
                                'networkstatustitle'=>'Network Status',
                                'affiliatestitle' => 'affiliatestitle','contactus'=>'Contact Us',
                                 'account'=>'Account','login' =>'Login', 'register'=> 'Register',
                                  'forgotpw'=> 'Forgot Password?'));

$smarty->debugging = false;
$smarty->caching = false;
$smarty->cache_lifetime = 120;

 $smarty->display('header.tpl');
$smarty->display('footer.tpl');
?>

That's all you need - now download Smarty 3.x1.7 and copy your WHMCS template folder including all files in it and the includes/jscript folder to your PC

create a directory structure under your web folder as follows

/lib
/includes/jscript
/cache
/templates
/templates_c

That's it - you should be able to view the header and footer as it will look on your site in WHMCS.
There was one problem I had which was the menu didn't work under this proper. For some reason the background color didn't show on the default template and the drop down menu didn't work. This could be due to WHMCS using an older version of Smarty. ( ver 2.6.26)

But you really don't need those to work since they should be changed.
You can set the debug or the cache on if you wish but it's best to leave the cache off for development since you will need to view changes. Having the cache on will require you to erase the cache files in order to see changes made.

Have fun

Browser Problems with E-Classifieds

Seems that some browsers do not support group objects.
Google Chrome for instance has problems with multiple check boxes with the same name.

This has caused problems with E-Classifieds when a person adds a new Classified Ad.
If you have version 2.X and you set the max categories to allow multiple subcategories then it will error.

The error will be a required item was not filled in.

The fix to this is to replece the check boxes with a Select.

The file that we need to edit is under the folder     /html/
File name is post_item_form.pl

Line 173  on down to line 178 in this file needs to be replaced with

print qq~<select name="subcategory" multiple=true>~;
foreach $subcategory (@subcategories) {
print qq~ <option>$subcategory</option>~;

}

print qq~</select></td></tr>~;

}

This should fix it.

The days of Windows are numbered

Windows XP was the peak and as we go forward Microsoft will slowly destroy it's OS.
The first blow came when Microsoft clearly disregarded it's main source of income.
When it put out Vista, which had no backward compatibility to XP, this was a major mistake.
It took years to develop it's strong hold in the corporate market.
Yet Microsoft is determined to now cater to new technology rather than paying clients.
Windows 7 although it solves much of the Vista problems it offers no upgrade path from XP.
Windows 8 maybe a really nifty looking OS but it is a complete departure from the basic roots.
My guess is Linux will become the main stay for office work as Microsoft can no longer be trusted.
When it comes to who the OS maker will support, the trendy fades or the main stay corporate clients, Microsoft has clearly shown they will jump on the quick money band wagon.
I suspect that Windows 8 will be the beginning of Microsoft's downfall.

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Uploading files with PHP
 

To upload files with php is pretty simple.
We first start with a basic form and add enctype plus method = post.

<form action="index.php" enctype="multipart/form-data" method="post">
<input type="file" name="upload" size="40">

<input type="submit" name="start_upload" value="Start Load">
</form>

You can place this form on any page but will need to change the action= to match the name of the php script you create. In our example we named it index.php but it can be any name as long as the extension is .php.

We now add the PHP code which is as follows:

<?php
$tst = isset($_POST['start_upload']) ? $_POST['start_upload'] : '';

if (!empty($tst)){

// Where the file is going to be placed
$target_path = "/home/yoursite/public_html/uploads/";

/* Add the original filename to our target path. */
$target_path = $target_path . basename( $_FILES['upload']['name']);

if(move_uploaded_file($_FILES['upload']['tmp_name'], $target_path)) {
    echo "The file ".  basename( $_FILES['upload']['name']).
    " has been uploaded<br>";
}else{
    echo "The uplaod failed!";
}
?>

It's that easy and the only other thing you can do is add a filter to only allow certian file types.
To do this we can add these lines:

$filetype = $_FILES['upload']['type'];
   if($filetype=="application/pdf" or $filetype=="application/zip" or $filetype=="application/x-zip"){

   Put your code here to upload file!!

  }

You can add or remove file types to the above sample.


 

Customizing the WHMCS Status Page on version 5.12 and lower.
 

To change the status page you need to edit the template file serverstatus.tpl.
This is located under templates/default.

The lines as follows that come as the default can be changed.

<tr class="clientareatableheading">
<td>{$LANG.servername}</td>
<td>HTTP</td>
<td>FTP</td>
<td>POP3</td>
<td>{$LANG.serverstatusphpinfo}</td>
<td>{$LANG.serverstatusserverload}</td>
<td>{$LANG.serverstatusuptime}</td>
</tr>
{foreach key=num item=server from=$servers}
<tr class="clientareatableactive">
<td>{$server.name}</td>
<td>{get_port_status num="$num" port="80"}</td>
<td>{get_port_status num="$num" port="21"}</td>
<td>{get_port_status num="$num" port="110"}</td>
<td><a href="{$server.phpinfourl}" target="_blank">{$LANG.serverstatusphpinfo}</a></td>
<td>{$server.serverload}</td>
<td>{$server.uptime}</td>
</tr>

As we can see the function get_port_status is passed a port number.
So to add additional checking you only need to add another line with the port you wish to display.

I would suggest right off to remove the PHP info link as it can cause you problems with hackers.

For my servers I put
<tr class="clientareatableheading">
<td>{$LANG.servername} / Info</td>
<td>CPANEL</td>
<td>HTTP</td>
<td>FTP</td>
<td>POP3</td>
<td>MYSQL</td>
<td>WEBMAIL</td>
<td>WHM</td>
<td>PHP Ver</td>
<td>MYSQL Ver</td>
<td>{$LANG.serverstatusserverload}</td>
<td>{$LANG.serverstatusuptime}</td>
</tr>
{foreach key=num item=server from=$servers}
<td>{get_port_status num="$num" port="2082"}</td>
<td>{get_port_status num="$num" port="80"}</td>
<td>{get_port_status num="$num" port="21"}</td>
<td>{get_port_status num="$num" port="110"}</td>
<td>{get_port_status num="$num" port="3306"}</td>
<td>{get_port_status num="$num" port="2095"}</td>
<td>{get_port_status num="$num" port="2086"}</td>
<td>{$server.phpver}</td>
<td>{$server.mysqlver}</td>
<td>{$server.serverload}</td>
<td>{$server.uptime}</td>
{foreachelse}
<tr class="clientareatableactive">
<td colspan="12"><hr></td</tr>
<td colspan="7">{$LANG.serverstatusnoservers}</td>
</tr>
{/foreach}


This shows the info we would like to see but I also added a link, on my hosting site ( cw3host.com ), to view the server info via the script PHPSysinfo

The templates allow conditional processing which is really a great help to make you page do what you want.

Putting {if $server.name eq "Server1"} will control how a single server is processed in your page.

For version 5.13 it has changed.
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We now have to add lines to the javascript functions.

For instance if we want phpver  we add the following to the function getStats(num)

jQuery("#phpver"+num).html(data.phpver);

Add your table header

            <th class="textcenter">PHP Ver</th>

Then the table col

            <td class="textcenter" id="phpver{$num}"><img src="images/loadingsml.gif" alt="{$LANG.loading}" /></td>

And that's it.

You can add ports but would need to add a line for each after the <script> at end of table ( last col )

As you can see for port 21 thay have checkPort({$num},21);

Just add a Table heading <th> and column for each port plus the checkPort function call.
 

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