osCommerce product manufacturers

This chapter describes how to manage osCommerce Product Manufacturers in osCommerce store.

Basic Operations

1. Add new manufacturer   calls blank Edit Manufacturer form, which is used to create a new manufacturer.

2. To edit manufacturer you can double click on it or press "Edit manufacturer"  button. It calls Edit Manufacturer form for selected product. Please see below for options.

3. You can delete selected manufacturer  . You won't be able to undo delete from store option, unless you've made a Database backup.

4. Refresh data   forces manufacturers' list update. It is useful when you're changing connection or have any doubts like is the latest data displayed.  

Edit Manufacturer Form

To create a new manufacturer in osCommerce store or edit an existing one, proceed through several steps:

1. Click on create new or edit manufacturer icon.

• Name is the only required field here. The rest will be either set automatically or may be left empty/default.
• Manufacturer Image. There are three buttons to edit image. First one  is used to browse contents of your local folders and select an image. When you press OK button on edit form it will be uploaded to "Images directory" on FTP. When local image selected, this field will display local image path like C:\My Images\some_image.jpg.  But local image path will be replaced with image name some_image.jpg right after upload.

The next button  is used to select some image stored remotely. It's done by browsing contents of FTP folder specified as "Images directory".

Also you can configure image resize rules with the help of the last button . It calls image resize rules window to decrease or increase the size of image.

• To show the manufacturer's link specify the URL here: http://www.magneticone.com.store