Another little hard-earned nugget here that will help you out if you’re developing a site with Cubecart… So you have a product category and the only thing in it is sub-categories. So the landing page just shows an image of the subcategory, the title of the subcategory and the number of products in it. We [...]

Pre-amble/bitch about Cubecart Cubecart is a difficult beast to develop for. Whilst the software is pretty stable (most of the stores I’ve worked with have been v4 based), the standard feature set is quite poor. Added to that, I find the Cubecart community a bit of a joke.

By default, Cubecart v4 shows only the ‘top-level’ product categories in the sidebar. If you’ve added additional sub-categories, you can enable the DHTML menu in Admin which gives drop down style ‘fly-out’ menus. However, what if you want to show your sub-categories all the time? The DHTML menu option in Admin makes Cubecart creates nested [...]

Update 27th July 2010: Chicubes is now being looked after elsewhere and I am no longer involved in the on-going development of the site. Therefore, some of the info below may no longer be relevant. Chicubes is a website I first built back in 2008. At the beginning of 2010 the owners wanted a refresh. [...]

As you will note from my previous post I’ve been working on another Cubecart based site. Cubecart 4 uses the Prototye & Scriptaculous Javascript library, which I’m not a fan of and I wanted to add some Javascript functionality to the site I can only find in Jquery. The task was therefore to remove add [...]

I was looking for a simple tutorial that described how to use MAMP and Coda together for locally developing CMS (php based) systems before making them live, in this instance Cubecart. I searched high and low and couldn’t find anything on the net specific to Cubecart. The best documentation I found was this blog post [...]