[iSenseLabs Weekly 77] New OpenCart Features & Fixes, Video Tutorials and Latest E-Commerce News
OpenCart 3 compatibility updates for extensions keep coming in from all sides, so we’re happy to announce another batch of iSenseLabs modules that are now ready for the newest 3.0.2.0 version.
Among them, you will find a big update of NitroPack, which is being released for all three main versions of OpenCart.
If you’ve been waiting for these modules for OpenCart 3, they’re waiting for you now.
And if you’re already running them, make sure to update them to their newest versions!
Enjoy.
NitroPack 1.8.9 (OC 1.x) | 2.5.9 (OC 2.x) | 3.5.9 (OC 3.x)
New Feature: Add automatic image dimension detection, to help set the proper dimension overrides
Improvement: Handle invalid HTTP responses in the HTTP client, when the server sends something invalid before the headers
Improvement: Support OpenCart configs that do not have the DIR_APPLICATION defined as an absolute path
Improvement: Better CRON command which should work on more servers out of the box
Improvement: Add imagemagick to the image optimization tools for faster image optimization with results closer to the ones reported by Google's PageSpeed
Improvement: Handle multibyte filenames when optimizing images
Improvement: Proper handling of the <noscript> tags in the DOM parser
Improvement: Escape the session ID when checking for items in the cart to prevent SQL injection
Improvement: Add 'MobileSafari' as a recognized UserAgent for mobile devices
Improvement: Handle HTML, comments and CDATA after the closing HTML tag in the DOM parser, like Google Chrome does - append the extra HTML to the body
Improvement: Make the NOSCRIPT tags searchable with find() in the DOM parser
Improvement: Make the base CSS extraction multistore aware
Improvement: Disregard the protocol part from the page excludes for more natural way to configure these
Bug Fix: Include the http_response_code polyfill in the static resource handling functions
Bug Fix: Fix an issue in the StringIterator of the DOM parser when using peek near the end of the string
SmartNotifications 3.2.6 (OC 3.0.x)
Improvement: OpenCart 3.0.x compatibility
New feature: Added color picker for the custom style option.
Bug fix: Fixed the preview button for a multi-language store.
CallForPrice 3.4.2 (OC 3.0.x)
Improvement: OpenCart 3.0.x compatibility
AutoDetect 3.6.9 (OC 3.0.x)
Improvement: OpenCart 3.0.x compatibility
SmartBar 3.0.4 (OC 3.0.x)
Improvement: OpenCart 3.0.x compatibility
PopupUpsell 3.3.7 (OC 3.0.x)
Improvement: OpenCart 3.0.x compatibility
Bug fix: Fixed the Add New Popup button
TemplatePaths 2.2 (OC 3.0.x)
Improvement: OpenCart 3.0.x compatibility.
Improvement: Journal2 compatibility.
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