Using Quick Cart in heavy-duty environment can sometimes yield bugs that the original author probably didn't think of. I know, I have read the disclaimers about recommended number of products, but up until now QC worked fine, it's just this one bug that can disable some functionality in the administration.
I was trying to work with up to 4000 products; most of them have pictures, so you end up with about 2800 pictures in the files/ directory. Of course, I use a custom php script to create db files, no one adds the products by hand. I also upload the pics via FTP, not via QC administration interface.
Now, has anyone tried to edit a category or a product, when there are so many pictures in the files/ directory? I guess not, because the result on my server is this: Fatal error: Allowed memory size of 33554432 bytes exhausted (tried to allocate 5709817 bytes) in /home/html/****.cz/public_html/libraries/TplParser.php on line 228
My guess is that the big number of images is simply too much to display on the administration tab where files are added to a product or a page from the server.
I have circumvented this bug by moving the pics to files/pics/ , then moving the thumbnails to files/100/pics/ and by editing the filenames of pics in db/products_files.php to format "pics/xxx.jpg". This worked very well, although it is not an ideal solution.
Yep, that removed the "load from server" box, now everything is working and quick (was very slow when there were for example 1600 pics in the files/ dir). Thanks.
I love QuickCart and the way how it can handle up to 4000 products in 650 categories (pages). I look forward to that day when the tag "unsuitable for more than 1000 products" will be just removed. I'll keep testing the e-shop versions in this heavy-duty environment and will let you guys know, when something else bombs.
