Item Validation Rules

The values of item ids and names that are inserted and updated within the cart can be validated using custom Regular Expressions.

Example

// Example #1 : Defining item id to allow alpha-numeric, dashes, underscores and periods.

$config['settings']['item_id_rules'] = '\.a-z0-9_-';

// Example #2 : Defining item name to allow alpha-numeric, dashes, underscores, colons, periods and commas.

$config['settings']['item_name_rules'] = '\.\,\:\-_ a-z0-9\#';

// Example #3 : Disabling regular expression validations.

$config['settings']['item_id_rules'] = FALSE;
$config['settings']['item_name_rules'] = FALSE;

Date and Time Settings

Define the date and time data format used within flexi cart functions.

Notes

Example

// Example #1 : Defining the MySQL DATETIME format.

$config['settings']['date_time'] = date('Y-m-d H:i:s'); 

// Example #2 : Defining the UNIX timestamp format.

$config['settings']['date_time'] = time(); 

Email Settings

Defines the email template and settings that are used to email users a copy of their order.

Example

// Site title shown as 'from' header on emails.
$config['email']['site_title'] = 'flexi cart';

// Reply email shown as 'from' header on emails.
$config['email']['reply_email'] = 'info@website.com';

// Type of email to send, options: 'html', 'text'.
$config['email']['email_type'] = 'html';

// Path to order confirmation email template.
$config['email']['email_template'] = 'includes/email/order_email.tpl.php';

Message Delimiter Settings

Define status and error message delimiters to style cart messages.

Example

// Status Message Start Delimiter.
$config['messages']['delimiters']['status_prefix'] = <p class="status_msg">;

// Status Message End Delimiter.
$config['messages']['delimiters']['status_suffix'] = </p>;

// Error Message Start Delimiter.
$config['messages']['delimiters']['error_prefix'] = <p class="error_msg">;

// Error Message End Delimiter.
$config['messages']['delimiters']['error_suffix'] =  </p>;

Public and Admin Messages

Define which status and error messages are returned as public or admin messages, or which messages are not returned at all.
Public messages are intended to be displayed to public and admin users, whilst admin messages are intended for admin users only.

Example

// Set the message to be displayed to public users.
$config['messages']['target_user']['items_added_successfully'] = 'public';

// Set the message to be displayed to admin users only.
$config['messages']['target_user']['items_added_successfully'] = 'admin';

// Disable a message from being set.
$config['messages']['target_user']['items_added_successfully'] = FALSE;

Define Language

Define the language of status and error messages returned by flexi cart functions.

The Language File

Defining a Language

Defining the language used by the library is done using CodeIgniters internal methods, either via the CI config. file, or by using CI's language class.

// Example #1 : Set language via CI's config file ('application/config/config.php').

$config['language'] = 'spanish';

// Example #2 : Set language via CI's language class.
// Note: This must be defined before calling the flexi cart library and would typically be done in either
// a controller or model.

// First load the language file.
$this->lang->load('flexi_cart', 'spanish');

// And then load the flexi cart library.
$this->load->library('flexi_cart');