Perlshop 4.3.00 Release Notes

Feature Set:

• Added support for VeriSign/Signio real-time credit card processing.
  This includes the following VeriSign partners:
  
  • American Express Payflow
  • First Interstate Financial Services
  • National Bankcard Systems (eNBS)
  • pay|Net Merchant Services
  • Wells Fargo Bank
• Real-time transaction authorization reference data is now included in the company copy of the order email.

• The plugin interface has been extended and enhanced in many ways.
  See the on-line documentation for details.

• A new product data tag called ITEM_SHIPTYPE has been defined.
  See the on-line documentation for details.
• A new product data tag called ITEM_DATA has been defined.
  See the on-line documentation for details.
• New product data tags called QTY_MIN and QTY_MAX have been defined. The JavaScript OnAddItems function has been enhanced to work with these values. See the on-line documentation for details.

• A new "enteraction" input parameter has been added. This gives Perlshop web sites the ability to combine the Enter action with something other than a catalog page file load.
• Customer check-out related code was moved into an external library file called ps_checkout.pl.
• Many new style classes have been defined for use with the Order Form, Shopping Cart, and Shipping display screens. See the on-line style sheet documentation for details.

• The CREATE script has been extended to create the 'plugins' and 'plugins/files' directories.
• Extra copies of the store order email can be sent to a programmable cc email list. See the ps.cfg file $mail_order_cc_list setting for details.
• Added the ability to reject orders from specific countries. See the ps.cfg file @reject_country_codes setting for details.

• Made the old regular expression matching option for the search interface a configurable option. See the ps.cfg file $searchRegExp setting for details.
• Added the ability to use a custom web page in place of the standard search interface. See the ps.cfg file $searchCatalogPage setting for details.

New features contributed by other authors:

• Chris Milner contributed code that eliminates the need to re-complete the order form if the customer has selected the "Continue Shopping" link after having filled out the order form.
• Phil Plumbo contributed code that lets QuickBuy mode use a specific Order ID. See the on-line QuickBuy Mode documentation for details.

The following bugs have been corrected:

• The Update Shopping Cart command now deletes the 'orders' file if all items have been removed from a shopping cart.
  (This was a four year old bug from Perlshop 3 that was found by a User's Group member - thanks Glenn)
• The search function now works correctly with non-standard catalog subdirectory locations.
• Added logic to allow images on the final checkout page to use the secure image URL. Change contributed by Cheryl Lambert.