Customising Prestashop Module Templates
Posted by admin | Filed under Tips and Tricks
Please don’t edit those originals!
I came across this little gem a while ago on the Prestashop forum, and thought I would draw attention to it in the hopes that it will help someone, somewhere.
Tags: design, Free Prestashop Modules, Prestashop, template, theme
Randomly Displayed Adverts and Callouts
Posted by admin | Filed under Free Prestashop Modules, Prestashop
Another useful tool for conversions is being able to attract the attention of your visitors and guide them to the parts of your site you really want them to see. We’ve come up with yet another great little PrestaShop module to do precisely that!
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Tags: design, module, Prestashop, template
Preventing the copying of your site design templates
Posted by admin | Filed under Prestashop
I was browsing the prestashop forum and ended up on a thread concerning an issue with people stealing a site design by downloading the template files from the theme directory. It struck me that this is probably something that those of you who use other template systems with your sites may also face, so thought I’d post the solution here too.
The problem is that although php files cannot be viewed directly on your browser, other source files can be e.g. files ending in .tpl
For example take a look at the following file that has the default permissions:
The best way to protect your site is to change the permissions on these files to 600. This will make them accessible only by your own code on the server and present anyone nosey enough to try and look at them with a 403 (forbidden) error. The same is true for php files (although these shouldn’t display the source unless your server configuration is broken).
Have a look at this file with the permissions set to 600:
Simple.
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