Earlier, back in January, a local T-Shirt screen printing business contacted me wanting me to set up a T-Shirt design website, to rival CustomTShirts and related sites.
I chose OpenCart and OpenT-Shirts to do the magic, as I have no experience in PHP, MySQL, and Flash (instead, my true expertise lies in HTML/CSS.) But the project was more than I bargained for. It was only supposed to take two weeks at the max, yet four months later - I'm still working on it. Let's just say the client isn't very happy and I'm definitely not very happy.
First, and this is something Jason should be able to answer - the fonts that came with the program will not display. They said there was more than likely no GD/TrueType support on our server. Is this true, and if so, can you (Jason) add GD/TrueType support?
Second, is I wanted to add my client's personalized clipart to the website. This is a "need" more than a "want" - a necessity as he has a lot of local high school mascots that need to be added to the site. While I could upload the bitmap (.png) file, I want to install an interactive (where the end user can change the color, size, etc. of the image) Flash file. While CorelDraw has a Flash exporter built in, they said I need to manipulate the file in Adobe Flash. Is there any free/low-cost alternatives to download $400 Adobe Flash, as I don't have that much money to spare.
Third, is re-importing my settings. When I re-installed OpenCart/OpenT-Shirts today, I had to give it a different prefix than the old version that had all of my settings on it. Am I screwed or can I still salvage my settings, as it will take yet another month to make all of the settings.
Time is important here. My reputation (the T-Shirt design company, my client, was my first client) is on the line, and that is something I can't afford to loose. Any help, either here or on the OpenT-Shirts forum, is greatly appreciated.
Here is the topic I have on the OpenT-Shirts forum, if you want to play along: http://forums.opentshirts.com/index.php/topic,1433.msg6834.html#msg6834
Quote from: Garrett on April 06, 2015, 04:00:36 PM
First, and this is something Jason should be able to answer - the fonts that came with the program will not display. They said there was more than likely no GD/TrueType support on our server. Is this true, and if so, can you (Jason) add GD/TrueType support?
Yes, GD is enabled on all servers. I just confirmed this for the server that account is on by creating a phpinfo file.
I'll check on true type.
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Is there any free/low-cost alternatives to download $400 Adobe Flash, as I don't have that much money to spare.
I believe someone responded in your thread there with some suggestions:
"You will have to use flash builder swiffy or something like that to make movie swf. (check sparkies channel as posted)"
I found this via Google:
http://www.opensourcealternative.org/alternatives/graphic-editors/open-source-alternative-to-flash-professional/
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Third, is re-importing my settings. When I re-installed OpenCart/OpenT-Shirts today, I had to give it a different prefix than the old version that had all of my settings on it. Am I screwed or can I still salvage my settings, as it will take yet another month to make all of the settings.
You will need to edit the config file for OpenCart/OpenT-shirts to point it to your old db if I'm following what you're asking. From what I see through Google, OpenCart has its db connection settings in a file called config.php in the opencart folder (wherever you installed it). You could edit that file via ftp and change the db settings to point the new install to your previous db.
Does that help?
Regards,
Jason
I've confirmed GD with True Type support is enabled on the server your particular site is on.
GD Support enabled
GD Version bundled (2.1.0 compatible)
FreeType Support enabled
FreeType Linkage with freetype
FreeType Version 2.2.1
Regards,
Jason