1- Replace html_mail php class included for:
require_once(PATH_t3lib.’/mail/class.t3lib_mail_message.php’);

2- Go to your custom sendEmail() method (this is where you create the instance of the html_mail class) and comment your code, use this as an example instead:
$mail = t3lib_div::makeInstance(‘t3lib_mail_Message’);
$mail->setFrom(“email1@example.com”);
$mail->setTo(“email2@example.com”);
$mail->setSubject($subject);
$mail->setBody($content);
$mail->send();

It seems that Powermail also uses the html_mail class, but there should be an update for that. In case you don’t want to use the new API consider using this suggestion
$TYPO3_CONF_VARS['MAIL']['substituteOldMailAPI'] = 0;

Recommended links:

http://buzz.typo3.org/teams/core/article/your-first-blog/

Hope this helps.

1 – Create a new php class inside your custom extension

<?php
require_once(PATH_t3lib . ‘class.t3lib_befunc.php’);
require_once(PATH_t3lib . ‘stddb/tables.php’);
require_once(t3lib_extMgm::extPath(‘cms’, ‘ext_tables.php’));

class tx_whatisit_eID {
public function init() {
tslib_eidtools::connectDB();
}
public function main() {
// get params for query
$param = t3lib_div::_GET();
$name = $param['name'];
echo “hello world “. $name;
}
}

if (defined(‘TYPO3_MODE’) && isset($GLOBALS['TYPO3_CONF_VARS'][TYPO3_MODE]['XCLASS']['ext/myextension/class.tx_whatisit_eid.php'])) {
include_once($GLOBALS['TYPO3_CONF_VARS'][TYPO3_MODE]['XCLASS']['ext/myextension/class.tx_whatisit_eid.php']);
}
$module = t3lib_div::makeInstance(‘tx_whatisit_eID‘);
$module->init();
$module->main();
?>

2- Register the class in ext_localconf.php
$GLOBALS['TYPO3_CONF_VARS']['FE']['eID_include']['myextension'] = ‘EXT:myextension/class.tx_whatisit_eid.php‘;

3- In your javascript file you can call:
$.get(“http://mydomain.com/index.php?eID=myextension“, {name: ‘John’}, function(data) {
alert(data);
} );

Hope you find this useful.
Thanks to Niels Frohling for his help too.

In every province or territory of Canada, we must pay a federal tax on most items we purchase.  In most provinces of Canada, we must also pay a provincial tax.  Sometimes these taxes are displayed separately (federal: GST, provincial: RST, PST, or QST), sometimes they are combined into a single, harmonized tax (HST).

For products purchased and delivered within the same province:

In some provinces the provincial and federal portions are blended into a single “harmonized” tax.

For example, in Ontario, one would pay a single 13% tax

Subtotal:	$ 5
Shipping:	$ 5
HST:	$ 1.30*
Total:	$ 11.30

* note, the taxes are also applied to the shipping as well as any handling fees.

In some provinces the provincial and federal portions are separate.

For example, in Manitoba one would pay a 5% federal and a 7% provincial tax. Both of these taxes are usually displayed separately on an invoice, as in:

Subtotal:	$ 5
Shipping:	$ 5
RST:	$ .70
GST:	$ .50
Total:	$11.20

In two provinces (Prince Edward Island and Quebec), the provincial tax is applied to the total with GST already applied.

For example, in PEI:

Subtotal:	$5
Shipping:	$5
GST:	$.50
SubTotal:	$10.50
PST:	$1.05
Total:	$11.55

For products purchased in one province and delivered to another province:

If you are shipping the product out of your province to a province that participates in HST, you are required to collect HST at the provinces rate (different provinces have different HST rates).

Ex. Nova Scotia

Subtotal:	$ 5
Shipping:	$ 5
HST:	$ 1.50
Total:	$11.50

If you are shipping the product out of your province to Prince Edward Island or Saskatchewan, you are required to collect GST, and encouraged to collect PST (at the provinces applicable rates).

Ex. Saskatchewan

Subtotal:	$ 5
Shipping:	$ 5
PST:	$ .50
GST:	$ .50
Total:	$11.00

If you are shipping the product out of your province to Manitoba, you are required to collect GST and Manitoba’s RST

Subtotal:	$ 5
Shipping:	$ 5
RST:	$ .70
GST:	$ .50
Total:	$11.20

If you are shipping the product out of your province to Quebec, you are required to collect GST and QST (Quebec’s RST).

Subtotal:	$5
Shipping:	$5
GST:	$.50
SubTotal:	$10.50
QST:	$1.00
Total:	$11.50

If you are shipping the product out of your province to Alberta, Nunavut, Northwest Territories, or Yukon, you are required to collect GST

Subtotal:	$ 5
Shipping:	$ 5
GST:	.50
Total:	10.50

For products delivered outside of Canada:

No tax would be charged.

Subtotal:	$ 5
Shipping:	$ 5
Total:	$10.00

Exemptions:

Certain products may be exempt from the following:

1. provincial taxes (RST, PST, or QST),
2. the federal tax (GST),
3. both provincial and federal tax
4. HST
5. the provincial portion of HST

Certain types of customers can be exempt from the following:

1. provincial tax
2. the provincial portion of the HST

Taxes & Rates:

• British Columbia: HST 12%
• New Brunswick: HST 13%
• Newfoundland and Labrador: HST 13%
• Nova Scotia: HST 15%
• Ontario: HST 13%

• Manitoba: GST 5% + RST 7% on retail price only
• Prince Edward Island: GST 5% + PST 10% on retail price including goods and services tax
• Quebec: GST 5% + QST 9.5% on retail price including goods and services tax
• Saskatchewan: GST 5% + PST 5% on retail price only

• Alberta: GST 5%
• Northwest Territories: GST 5%
• Nunavut: GST 5%
• Yukon: GST 5%

References:

http://www.canadabusiness.ca/eng/guide/5155/#c5166

http://news.ontario.ca/rev/en/2010/06/continuing-point-of-sale-exemption-for-ontarios-first-nations.html

UPDATE September 2011:  Now we can offer Interac Online payments through your website as well, allowing clients to pay online directly from their bank account!

We are frequently asked by our clients  – “How can we allow customers to make payments through our web site?”

Secure online payments can be set up with minimal effort and budget, and offers great benefits that include:

• Clients have an additional method to make payment, which is secure, convenient, and fast;
• The service is available 24/7,  allowing customers to make payment by credit card whether someone is in the office or not (it’s always nice to check your email in the morning to find several payment receipts!);
• Just like offline credit card transactions, once the payment has been made online, it is final (it’s not “in the mail” and won’t bounce).

To discuss how we can easily get this up and running on your web site, please contact us.

Here’s a video that demonstrates the process in action.

How does it work?

We have online payments on our own web site at seethroughweb.com, providing a page where a client enters an invoice number and amount, confirms, and then is transferred to the “hosted payment page” of InternetSecure (our “payment gateway”).  Once on this secure page, the client then enters their full credit details and makes the actual transaction (see demonstration video below).

Most payment gateways offer the “hosted payment page” service; the advantage of using this service is that the gateway handles the technical and security requirements to perform the transaction, greatly reducing the cost and effort that might otherwise be required to set up online payments.

When the payment is complete, the customer receives a receipt by email, and we receive a “successful transaction” email that is very similar to their receipt. They are then transferred back to a “thank you” page on our website (or a “there was a problem” page if the transaction didn’t go through).

Payment processors we’ve worked with include: InternetSecure, Moneris, Beanstream, PSiGate, and Desjardins; and we can likely connect with most others as well.  Paypal can also be used and is actually quite flexible, allowing customers the option of paying with their credit card or with their Paypal account if they have one.

Demonstration

In 2004 & 2005  it became clear to us that clients wanted websites that they could edit themselves and we were interested in providing a solution that would allow us to quickly and easily allow them to do this.  Expanding on this need, the criteria we were specifically interested in included:

• the ability for clients to edit their own pages
• flexibility of design – we didn’t want to have to bend our sites to fit the cms, or for visitors to be able to look at the design of our sites and be able to tell in what cms they had been developed
• user friendliness
• scalability – we wanted a platform that could grow and be enhanced as our clients business grew and changed
• search-engine optimization-ability
• multilingual capable
• track record/history
• support
• workflow capability
• audit log
• open source

We evaluated a number of different cms systems, setting up test versions in our office and working with each of them.  The system we selected and have been using and offering ever since is TYPO3.

Why TYPO3

While every system we looked at had its own particular strengths, we found that TYPO3 offered the most complete level of services and functionality.  Here are some of the highlights:

Ability for clients to edit their own pages:
For clients, updating the website is done through through the web browser by “logging in” through an administrative interface, after which the user need only click on pencils that appear on every web page to update the relevant portion of the page.  Through the browser administrators can also add, remove, or modify pages and site sections.  If a page is added or removed the menus & buttons on the website instantly update to reflect the change.

Flexibility of Design:
With many of the content management systems we looked at, we found that the designs need to fit into a certain theme or mold.  Thus one could look at various websites and be able to tell just by looking at them what content management system was used to create them.  With TYPO3 we found that any design could be applied, and there is no easily visible way for a site visitor to determine that a website has been developed in TYPO3.

Security options/access controls:
Detailed security options are available so that site administrators can be given access to update all pages, some pages, or even only certain elements on certain pages.

Scalability:
Hundreds of modules exist to meet functional requirements (such as RSS feeds, blogs, maps, and message boards), and  due to the opensource nature of the application we have full access to the source code and can modify these modules to suit if required.  This provides great benefit and cost savings in that developing the site is more an effort in customizing existing and proven functionality then it is in creating code from scratch.

Track Record/History:
All changes made through the cms are logged, so it is possible to determine who has made changes and reverse them if required.
With the workflow functionality, the system can be set up so that one group of users has access to update pages on the site, but the changes don’t go live until another user(s) has approved the changes.  Several levels of approval authority are possible.

Support:
One aspect of in particular that really stood out to us is the fact that TYPO3 has had a consolidated development effort since 1998.  Where many of the open source content management system have split, devided, died, or had other issues, TYPO3 has always had a single direction and is very actively developed.  Currently in version 4.4.2; 4.5 is in alpha testing; and version 5, a “next-generation” rewrite, is in heavy development.  All of these efforts are guided and directed through the TYPO3 association.

There are 1000s of developers working with the TYPO3 system, 1000s or pre-existing modules that can be implemented, each one of which is created by one or more developers who are often times accessible.

Open Source:

We were specifically interested in an open source product because it gives us the ability to modify the code if required, and provides a degree of portability.  We’ve seen many sites that have been built with proprietary management systems that effectively lock clients into their particular vendor.  While we love our clients, we had no interest in locking them into doing business with us.  TYPO3 is supported by many hosting platforms and many other agencies.

In Conclusion:

In the end, we selected TYPO3 because it was a content management system that allowed us to:

• implement any design,
• offer a user friendly way for clients to update their own websites
• serve as a platform on which additional functionality can be added in a cost and time effective way.

If you’d like to learn more about TYPO3, please visit:

• the TYPO3 page on our site
• our demonstration site, thedemo.ca
• typo3.com

They are usually a cluster of small icons (called sharing links or social bookmarks) found at the bottom of an article or web page that the web site’s proprietor will be happy to share.

Clicking anyone of these links allows visitors to the site to easily share a link to a web site, web page or blog article with their friends and associates, whether it is via direct email or cross-posting to Facebook, Twitter, Linked-In, Google, Windows Live, MySpace or any other networking sites. (See example below)

These days, with so many online community and sharing services being used by so many people, you have to seriously wonder about the potential business opportunities you could be missing out on by not including several of these links on your site.
 
There are a number of public sharing services available that make the addition of these links to a web site a pretty straightforward task. Plus these links can be programmed to link back to your site’s home page, a specific interior page, blog article, or even product promotion, which could prove to be a good revenue stream.
 
Most of these services also provide stats, will allow you to see and assess the activity the Sharing Links are generating.

If you are interested in discussing a link program for your web site, please feel free to contact me at any time to discuss. (simon@stwdesign.com)

Administrators can be given access to everything, access to only certain pages or sections, access to only certain functionality; even the left menu can be trimmed down to display only the controls that they require.

The site used in the demonstration is that of wellspring.ca.  This is quite a large site, with 3000+ pages and multiple administrators.  Each site administrator has access to only their particular portion of the website: for example the Toronto administrators can only see and update the Toronto pages, calendars, events, etc; the London administrators can only see and update their section of the site, etc.

The tutorial is at:  http://www.thedemo.ca/demonstrations/different-administrator-access-levels.html

The tutorial is at:  http://www.thedemo.ca/tutorials/how-to-link-upload-and-link-to-pdf-files.html.

1. How many different types of membership will be available (ie bronze, silver, gold; annual, monthly, etc.)?
2. Are multi-accounts possible?  For instance, can a corporation sign up and have X number of users.  If so, how is this managed?
3. Is different content available to different types of members?
4. How frequently will pricing change?
5. Are there discounts available?
6. How is the payment being processed (ie. live on the site as a member signs up, or manually in the office)?
7. Can members upgrade, downgrade, or terminate their own accounts on the site?  If so, how is site access and billing information updated?
8. Can members change their billing information on the site?
9. Do accounts expire?  If so, are expiry notification emails required?
10. Can accounts be renewed?  If so how (automatic, manual, link through email, etc.)?

These 10 questions will get you headed in the right direction.  If you’re looking for a partner in your site development who has done it before, please contact us to discuss the details in confidence.

Design

• Will your current web design be used for the ecommerce site?
• Will the ecommerce site be integrated with your current website – will the two be one, or will there be a separate “shop” site with a consistent look & feel to your non-shop site?

Products

• Estimated number of products
• Are products separated by category?
  • estimated number of categories
  • can a product exist in multiple categories
  • Do you have images to be assigned to the categories?
• Will products have images?
• Will products have multiple images?
• How will the images for products be displayed/organized?
• Will products have options (colour, size, etc.)?
  • Will options be selectable within a product (ie the “widget” product will have a dropdown for colour), or will each option exist as a separate product (ie one product that is red widgets, one product that is blue widgets
    • This can have inventory implications if inventory tracking is being done within the ecommerce system. See below.
  • If a visitor changes a product option from a dropdown, does anything about the page change (ie looking at widgets, select blue from the dropdown, and the picture of the product updates)
• Will product inventory be tracked?
  • will products cease to display if their inventory level reaches 0
  • can products with 0 inventory be ordered (back orders)?
  • Does inventory for each product option need to be tracked individually (ie different inventory tracking for each of 10 red widgets and 10 blue widgets)
• Are all products physical items, or are some electronic/downloadable items?

Pricing

• Same pricing for all shoppers?
  • Different pricing for different groups of shoppers?
  • If yes, please describe those differences.
• Is “special” pricing required (ie Christmas special pricing) per product?
• Are special discounts or coupons to be offered?

Shipping

• What couriers do you use?
  • Canada Post, UPS, FedEx, Purolator, others?
  • Are there certain couriers used for different types of orders?
    • If yes, please explain how the courier used is decided.
  • What is the weight range of the products to be sold?
• How will shipping rates be determined?
  • Live rates lookup
  • table of rates
  • rate per $ value
  • other

Payment

• what forms of payment will be accepted
  • credit card
  • paypal
  • cheque
  • bill me
  • other
• are credit card transactions to be performed at the time of checkout
• Are credit card transaction only put through once the order are shipped?
• Do you already have a Internet Merchant Account?
  • If yes, who is it with?
• Do you already have a Payment Gateway account?
  • If yes, who is it with?

Taxes

• will taxes be charged?
• Will taxes be: Ontario GST & PST, Canada GST, outside Canada none?
• Can some products be tax exempt?
• Are there any other tax implications that will have to be dealt with?

Currencies

• In what currency will the store operate?
  • If more than one is to be used, how is that determination determined?
• will the option to see rates in alternate currencies be offered?

Integration

• do products/inventory need to be imported into the ecommerce site from another system?
• do orders need to be exported from the ecommerce site to another system?
  • Customer contact info?
  • Shipments?
  • Other?
• is the site to be integrated with a shipping company (ie Purolator, UPS) for live shipping rates lookups?
  • If your current courier does not provide a viable online integration solution would you consider using a different courier for your web site shipments?
• is the site to be integrated with a payment processor for live credit card transactions?
  • if so, which one?
  • Do you already have an account with a credit card processor?
• Will the ecommerce site be integrated with your current website?
  • Will the two be one, or will there be a separate “shop” site with a consistent look & feel to your non-shop site?

Functionality for shoppers

• wish lists?
• tell a friend?
• recently viewed product?
• recently order products?
• Re-order?
• review previous orders?
• Check status/look up shipping?
• Others?

Attracting Shoppers

• how will shoppers come to the site?
• is the online store a compliment to a bricks and mortar store?
• will you be doing a search engine campaign (seo/sem) in conjunction with the launch of the store?
• Will code be required on the site to track goals tied to web analytics?

Other

• are there other requirements that you have that we haven’t considered here?