theviewer1985 Posted May 10, 2013 Share Posted May 10, 2013 Hey guys, Im new to WHMCS and working on my first template. I am pretty much flying with it but have hit a stumbling block My business doesnt focus on hosting such as "shared" and "reseller" but rather I sell hosting that comes equipped with ready made websites so i would rather have the title "all in one hosting" or something similar. I don't mind 'replacing' one of the other hosting types if that makes it easier, because none of them are any use to me. Take shared hosting for example, when clicking on my hosting page, i dont want to see the link "sharedhosting.php" in my address bar... i want it to read "allinonehosting.php" And i am sure there will be other areas across the whole website where it will need to display "all in one hosting" as apposed to one of the others. Any help pleasssseeee 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
easyhosting Posted May 10, 2013 Share Posted May 10, 2013 if the all in one hosting are single domain hosting, with a pre installed website/script where they cannot resell hosting to others, then the actual hosting is on a shared environment. I also assume you will send them out the shared email template with all their login details etc. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
basic Posted May 10, 2013 Share Posted May 10, 2013 Have you actually gone as far yet to set up a product and then try an order? There is nothing like you describe to be seen from the customer, as far as I know. What the customer will see is https://yourdomain.com/whmcs-install/cart.php?a=view (the part after the "?" will change as he goes long with the order) John 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
theviewer1985 Posted May 10, 2013 Author Share Posted May 10, 2013 if the all in one hosting are single domain hosting, with a pre installed website/script where they cannot resell hosting to others, then the actual hosting is on a shared environment. I also assume you will send them out the shared email template with all their login details etc. Yes, my hosting is on a shared environment, speaking from a technological stand point. But i am not selling it as 'shared' - I'd rather title it "all in One" or maybe even just "host packages" ... just something other than shared 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
theviewer1985 Posted May 10, 2013 Author Share Posted May 10, 2013 Have you actually gone as far yet to set up a product and then try an order? There is nothing like you describe to be seen from the customer, as far as I know.What the customer will see is https://yourdomain.com/whmcs-install/cart.php?a=view (the part after the "?" will change as he goes long with the order) John Interesting point... I'm not going to debate it because I am new and certainly could be wrong. But basically when i open my site (which is on localhost for now) i see "http://localhost/hostingtest/index.php" - i then have several links/buttons/pages in my main nav bar along the top, a few examples are: Contact Us - http://localhost/hostingtest/contact.php Latest News - http://localhost/hostingtest/announcements.php I also have a "hosting" page. It used to be a dropdown showing Shared, VPS, Dedicated... but i stripped the dropdown and just left it as a button saying "hosting" which currently links to: http://localhost/hostingtest/cloudhosting.php Id rather it not say cloudhosting.php ... or sharedhosting.php .... but just for arguments sake "all-in-one.php" would be nice. I did try changing the name of the php. And then opening it up and changing all the relevant coding into the new name but it seemed to knock the page about abit and display funny. Also i am sure even if i done that and it worked, there would be other instances where "shared hosting" would prop up... like in the email template for example. In honesty i actually thought this part would be easier... so im hoping not to cause any headaches here 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
easyhosting Posted May 10, 2013 Share Posted May 10, 2013 Yes, my hosting is on a shared environment, speaking from a technological stand point. But i am not selling it as 'shared' - I'd rather title it "all in One" or maybe even just "host packages" ... just something other than shared but as 'basic' states the links are as https://yourdomain.com/whmcs-install/cart.php?a=view so from client side the word shared is not seen or mentioned. when you create a product group then this is displayed as https://yourdomain.com/whmcs-install/cart.php?gid=2 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
theviewer1985 Posted May 10, 2013 Author Share Posted May 10, 2013 For some reason my messages arent showing here.... i will try again, making it even shorter again because they were both reaaallly long :-( But when i click on my hosting page the address bar displays "localhost/testsite/sharedhosting.php" - i know the cart displays a seperate link but its around the cart that im concerned with 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
basic Posted May 11, 2013 Share Posted May 11, 2013 theviewer1985 ... I think maybe you overestimate how much "interest" your customers, once they are your customers, will have in such a detail ! Out of 1000 customers you will likely not have have a single one who cares. So, you may also reconsider if it is really worth doing customizations like this, especially if you consider you will have to re-do whatever you do now with every update. John 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
theviewer1985 Posted May 11, 2013 Author Share Posted May 11, 2013 Well, in fairness i don't know if it's a 2 second job in the WHMCS settings. Or if its a days job in the coding. But that is the purpose of this thread, to find out if / how its possible If its easy, then i will definitely put the effort in to change whats displayed in the address bar to match the title of my product on sale If its difficult, then you may be right in that its probably to much effort to bother with. Another way to look at this question is, they openly say on the WHMCS sale pitch, that it doesn't have to be used by web hosters. It can be for anyone needing this type of recurring billing. So what would i do if i was one of those people, wanting to sell, say something like a car cleaning service, for £20 a month cheers 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
basic Posted May 11, 2013 Share Posted May 11, 2013 You cannot change whatever name/naming appears in the URL window for your customer, or the file names as such (as in your example in your first posting here). In order to do that, you would have to have the unencoded PHP files, but WHMCS files are mostly encoded ... and again, these kind of changes, in case you had the unencoded files, would be a huge effort, as you'd then need to change names in lots of other related files. But you can change the names of what your customer sees in the control panel itself. For example, if you wanted to change "Services" into "Car Sales" (or whatever), then you can just change that in /lang/english.php (and accordingly in all the other language files for Spanish, German, etc.). John 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
And then there was one les Posted May 11, 2013 Share Posted May 11, 2013 I am not seeing this anywhere and i do mean ANYWHERE in my installation. Those files you refer to might be a part of some modules you have installed. What provisioning modules are you using for your local installation? In as far as the linking, I cant figure where you are getting this from. the order process links into cart.php so far as i am aware all products and modules do this (i dont have experience of all the available modules so i couldnt say for sure). I dont know what it is your linking to and where from but something definitely seems wrong here. Are you sure it is whmcs your using? if so what version is it? 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
theviewer1985 Posted May 12, 2013 Author Share Posted May 12, 2013 I am not seeing this anywhere and i do mean ANYWHERE in my installation. Those files you refer to might be a part of some modules you have installed. What provisioning modules are you using for your local installation? In as far as the linking, I cant figure where you are getting this from. the order process links into cart.php so far as i am aware all products and modules do this (i dont have experience of all the available modules so i couldnt say for sure). I dont know what it is your linking to and where from but something definitely seems wrong here. Are you sure it is whmcs your using? if so what version is it? Hehe, it definitely is WHMCS.. version 5.1.3 And in the first folder, where WHMCS is installed I have loadddssssss of PHP files. I guess that is normal. Including every single page's PHP file. So i have Sharedhosting.php ... i have contactus.php.. i have clientportal.php It is these php files that my hyperlinks are linkiing to. So if i click on the contact hyperlink in my page, it goes to domain.com/contactus.php .... or onto my packages it links to domain.com/sharedhosting.php Is this not normal...? 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
And then there was one les Posted May 18, 2013 Share Posted May 18, 2013 (edited) As i said, I do not at all have a sharedhosting.php nor can i think of a time i ever have and ive been using whmcs since version 3. Open the file in a text editor and check if it is encrypted, You will know it is because the code you see will make no sense to you at all as its IonCube encryption and will appear to be totally random characters after the initial copyright notice and ioncube checks.. If you can easily read the file then in it not encoded and is not one of the standard files in whmcs. If you have purchased your license from whmcs and have downloaded whmcs from elsewhere you may be wise to download a fresh installation from whmcs directly and starting over. If you have installed the system from elsewhere and need to start over you have a few options but in such an installation i would be looking at a totally fresh server with a totally fresh install. Depending upon your access it is possible that such an install has breached the server outside of the whmcs installation. I dont know if that is your situation but for what its worth, if i was in this position i would not hesitate to start over on a new and secure server. Edited May 18, 2013 by CDJ Hosting 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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