WPCDN Posted January 14, 2010 Share Posted January 14, 2010 Hi All, Please let us know what you think of our WHMCS integration: http://www.wpcdn.com/ The "Support" tab in the main menu is WHMCS. Any suggestions are appreciated. Best regards, Mark WPCDN - WordPress Content Delivery Network http://www.wpcdn.com/ 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Strategerizer Posted January 15, 2010 Share Posted January 15, 2010 How did you achieve this level of integration? I see two issues: Minor - Shopping Cart page title is duplicated Major - Page layout fails miserably in IE because of a popup alerting user that some content is HTTPS and some not and if user clicks YES (I want to view only content delivered securely), it breaks apart... 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MediaPlayStudios Posted January 15, 2010 Share Posted January 15, 2010 I agree with Strategeriver I have found the same issue. Loads the same with Firefox, Safari, & Opera But overall layout and design of the website is good the only thing that I see needs improving is WHMCS integration 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Strategerizer Posted January 15, 2010 Share Posted January 15, 2010 Just want to subscribe to thread - don't see a way to do it without posting again... 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
markb1439 Posted January 15, 2010 Share Posted January 15, 2010 Hi All, Thanks for the feedback. How did you achieve this level of integration? We ended up using the header/footer method, copying our site's HTML source into header.tpl and footer.tpl in our WHMCS theme. The main content on the support page is hard-coded into homepage.tpl. We wanted to avoid using a wrapper for various reasons mentioned in other threads. When a client logs in, the login form is replaced by a client area menu. Shopping Cart page title is duplicated We are not sure why that happened, as the page titles just feed from the template files. We didn't notice this in initial testing, but we did do a last-minute switch to the Web 2.0 cart. We're looking at the cart template and our theme to find the reason for the duplication, and eliminate it. Major - Page layout fails miserably in IE because of a popup alerting user that some content is HTTPS and some not and if user clicks YES (I want to view only content delivered securely), it breaks apart... Thank you for this feedback. We are working on it now. Thanks to everyone. Any additional comments will also be appreciated. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
WPCDN Posted January 15, 2010 Author Share Posted January 15, 2010 Shopping Cart page title is duplicated Fixed. I think this might be a cosmetic issue in the Web 2.0 cart? We didn't change any headers or anything that should have made "Shopping Cart" appear twice. We ended up removing that header entirely from the main cart template file, and the duplication went away. Major - Page layout fails miserably in IE because of a popup alerting user that some content is HTTPS and some not and if user clicks YES (I want to view only content delivered securely), it breaks apart... I think we've found the issue and fixed it. Testing continues... Thanks again to everyone for your feedback. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Strategerizer Posted January 15, 2010 Share Posted January 15, 2010 WPCDN - at some point could you provide some guidance to your integration so we may be able to achieve the same and avoid the pitfalls? I initially found your post as I was looking into how I can integrate WHMCS pages with a WordPress website. Your site is the first succesful integration - particularly after your recent fixes - that I've seen. Also, which WordPress theme did you use and would switching themes preserve the integrity of your integration? Greta job! 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
WPCDN Posted January 21, 2010 Author Share Posted January 21, 2010 Retry: Strategerizer, Thanks for the kind words. WPCDN - at some point could you provide some guidance to your integration so we may be able to achieve the same and avoid the pitfalls? Sure. I'm not sure how much you've tried yet, so please forgive me if I touch on things you already know. In summary, we used the method of copying and pasting our site design (page source code) into the following WHMCS template files: header.tpl - basically contains everything up to your main page content homepage.tpl - contains the main page content footer.tpl - contains everything after the main page content (including, in our case, the right column) This method is essentially the same whether you're using WordPress, Joomla!, any other CMS, or just plain HTML. But here's how we did it in conjunction with WP: We created a WordPress page (that appears in the main menu) called "Support". In this WP page, we added all the content we want our main support portal to have. This page actually does not appear in the final site, but serves as a master for our integration. In the early stages of our integration, we named our WHMCS folder something other than "support". This way, when we went to the "Support" menu item, we could access the WP page we created. We copied the source code of the WP page, then renamed our WHMCS folder to "support". This makes the WHMCS system appear (instead of the WP page) when you click the "Support" menu link. WP will defer to a directory if there is one with the same name as a page. We pasted the appropriate bits of code into the template files. Note that you may need to experiment and pay careful attention to closing <div> tags, etc. Be sure to clear the templates_c folder after uploading any changed files. Also note that you can easily edit the .tpl files by changing their extension for editing, then changing it back before uploading. Or you can use a program that edits them directly, for example we used gedit in Linux. avoid the pitfalls The SSL "mixed content" issue turned out to be an absolute link to our page background that one of our designers added during our CDN testing. That caused the background to be loaded as an http item instead of https. After we restored the original relative link, the issue went away. which WordPress theme did you use The Station from WooThemes. would switching themes preserve the integrity of your integration? The procedure would be the same, but you'd need to view the source of a page generated with the different theme, then copy and paste the appropriate parts into the template files. Of course, you can create multiple WHMCS templates by copying and renaming a template folder. So, if you change themes but want to keep the possibility of returning to the old one, create a new WHMCS template for each WP theme. I hope this points you in the right direction. Please don't hesitate to ask for any additional information. Best regards, Mark 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
IntaHost-Steve Posted January 28, 2010 Share Posted January 28, 2010 Yeh I have found the same with posting in this forum, from time to time it says awaiting moderation and after waiting the post never appears. Odd setup somewhere I think. I like the integration as its clean and the little details have been taken care of, but overall it is rather stock template style. Its clean and matches your site so thats a +1. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rdavis Posted January 29, 2010 Share Posted January 29, 2010 So I started a mock purchase and got to Configurable Options and found I can't tell what the Options are other than what you call them and the price? 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
grfirst Posted January 29, 2010 Share Posted January 29, 2010 hello, new kid on the block here, and I would like to know how can I do the same or similar thing with my whmcs and site. i mean there has to be some step by step instructions out there on the web somewhere, right, wouldn't one assume? 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
WPCDN Posted February 11, 2010 Author Share Posted February 11, 2010 Hi, Our post above is somewhat of a step-by-step. There are other step-by-step posts in these forms and elsewhere on the web. The basic concepts are fairly easy, but sometimes it takes trial and error to get them to start working. Then it flows pretty easily. Good luck! Mark 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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