Frequently Asked Questions
New OpenCart/JooCart extensions can be installed easily with jCart as like as OpenCart.
1. Download your new extension from softPHP or OpenCart Extensions
See the Readme file provided with your new extension.Follow the instructions from the Readme file.
2. Install the extension from jCart Admin Panel Left Side Menu: Extensions->Installer
3. Now find ,install, enable and configure this module from jCart Admin Panel Left Side Menu: Extensions->Extensions->Modules(Or Payments,Shipping etc)
4. Refresh modifications from jCart Admin Panel Left Side Menu: Extensions->Modifications
5. Make sure "jCart ColorPicker Plugin" is enabled in Joomla Plugins section.
6. Joomla plugin "Content - Email Cloaking" may cause issues for some third party extensions. So you can disable this joomla plugin "Content - Email Cloaking". It is not much needed.
7. Also make sure in jCart Options in admin panel,you have set "Use $ as a jQuery variable: Yes"
8. Done
Manual Upload
If any files need to upload manually for a new extension, then you can manually upload the files of your new extension(e.g. language,payment,shipping etc) to your_joomla_site_path\components\com_jcart folder
If you want to display this extension as a Joomla left/right side module then you need to follow the following steps too
1. Go to Joomla Admin Panel modules section
2. Click on "New" button
3. Select Module type: "jCart new custom module"
4. Now give your new installed opencart Extension ID, Extension module_id and Title and Save it.
Extension module_id: If any extension has multiple instances with same file name then provide module id
To get Extension ID(i.e. filename), Extension module_id, go to jCart Admin Panel Modules section(jCart Admin Panel Left Side Menu: Extensions->Extensions->Modules) and make sure your required module is installed and enabled there.
Then go to edit page of that module and look at the URL in browser. You will get the extension id(ie. filename) and module id from there.
For example if your URL is something like this http://www.yoursite.com/index.php?option=com_opencart&route=extension/module/featured&user_token=wIwz5kU0edxNNp5znV1oX2CfYi8IXSkf
then Extension ID is: featured
For multiple columns for this module just add "_multiple_columns" at the end as follows: featured_multiple_columns)
If URL is something like this http://www.yourste.com/index.php?option=com_opencart&route=extension/module/featured&user_token=wIwz5kU0edxNNp5znV1oX2CfYi8IXSkf&module_id=28
then Extension module_id is: 28
If you are still facing issues then contact with our support team http://www.soft-php.com/support.html so that they can help you to make it compatible
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