Improved features offered by Zen Cart v 1.3.9e in open source development

Zen cart is a powerful open source development tool that provides every thing required to maintain the shopping cart on an online store in a customized way. These include products, prices, shipping charges, newsletters, sales, and much more. It the tool of Zen cart that opened the payment gateway through credit cards, making it much easier for the merchants to do payments online. Some of the key features of Zen cart application include multiple language support, multiple customer modes, unlimited category depth, multiple sales and discount, multiple display modes, XHTML 1.0 compliant template system, multiple ad banner controllers, multiple shipping options, multiple payment options, and many more.

The features of Zen cart kept on enhancing with its new versions like v 1.3.9a, v 1.3.9b, v 1.3.9c, v 1.3.9d, and now its latest version was launched on July 27, 2010 as v 1.3.9e. ‘v 1.3.9e’ has brought in many new advantages and features in the field of Open Source Web Development. Some of the most prominent advantages offered by this new version of Zen cart include fixing the broken online cart display, addition of % symbol in product names for submission in PayPal, enhancement of search-query syntax for providing ease in working with large numbers of subcats, fixing problems related to incorrect URL coding, adding missing currencies to 3-D secure lookup facility, and fixing small errors in editing, .htaccess to overcome problems related to TinyMCE addon.

This version of Zen cart has also helped in overcoming some issues related to bugs in open source website development. It helps to fix the problem of bugs that rise while checking additional images. It also fixes missing deletes from coupon restrict when the product or category ID is removed. Addition of more order details to the order summary array is also enabled by v 1.3.9e that leads to check-out success. It also facilitates system information look-up that helps to check availability of ‘exec() function’ before it is used on server admin. Other features offered by Zen cart v 1.3.9e is updated spider-detection list and addition of PHP6 support in error logging.

The main need of any open source development tool is to enable the owners of online web stores to run it in an effort-less manner and by minimizing the costs involved in it along with license fees, which is very well served by Zen cart. The continuous advancements provided by every new version of Zen cart also keeps on improving the use of CSS, HTML and PHP in web stores.

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