[Skip to main content](#vessel-content) # Profile for brainforge ## [![brainforge's Avatar](https://www.hikashop.com/media/kunena/avatars/resized/size144/users/avatar423.jpg)](/forum/user/423-brainforge "View brainforge's Profile") **[ Offline](/forum/user/423-brainforge)** - **User Type:** User - **Register Date:** 05 Dec 2010 - **Last login:** 1 week 1 day ago - **Time Zone:** UTC +0:00 - **Local Time:** 23:23 - **Posts:** 298 - **Profile views:** 1065 - **Thank you received:** 5 - **Location:** [England](https://maps.google.com?q=England) - **Gender:** Male - **Birthdate:** Unknown - **Medals:** Hikashop Business [ Brainforge.UK](https://brainforge.co.uk) - Posts # brainforge's recent posts (298 messages ) All Since last visit 4 Hours 8 Hours 12 Hours 24 Hours 48 Hours Week Month Year All Since last visit 4 Hours 8 Hours 12 Hours 24 Hours 48 Hours Week Month Year | [ ](#forumbottom) | Subject | Replies / Views | Last Post | [ ](#forumtop) | |---|---|---|---|---| | [](/forum/27-checkout/909044-cart-table-growing-in-size-400-000-records#366213) | [Cart table growing in size - 400,000 records!](/forum/27-checkout/909044-cart-table-growing-in-size-400-000-records#366213 "-- HikaShop version -- : 5.1.2 -- Joomla version -- : 5.2 -- PHP version -- : 8.2 Looking at a couple of sites realised the cart table is growing to a ridiculous size. The cart retaining period is setup.") Category: [Checkout](/forum/27-checkout "Everything about the checkout process in Hikashop") Topic started 1 year 9 months ago, by [brainforge](/forum/user/423-brainforge "View brainforge's Profile") [Last Post](/forum/27-checkout/909044-cart-table-growing-in-size-400-000-records#366216 "Hi, First, I had not seen that you were not the same person, sorry. Also, your question in your initial message was about the robots.txt But I don't think changing the robots.txt will help you, if your problem is that you have too many carts in the database. As I said in my first message on this thread, the first thing to do is to reduce the "Frequency of checks for the cart" setting to be as low as possible. Reducing the retaining period is not a good strategy. As you said, it will annoy your customers. Also, it doesn't help reducing the amount of carts. It's the check frequency you want to reduce. Also, you can simultaneously increase the cart_batch_removal_quantity as I was explaining in www.hikashop.com/forum/checkout/909044-c...-records.html#365308 Just doing these 2 things should be way enough in most cases. Regarding the robots.txt I can't say exactly what needs to be done without analyzing the website. Please provide the URL of the shop and I can tell you what you could add to help.") 1 year 7 months ago by [nicolas](/forum/user/63-nicolas "View nicolas's Profile") | Replies:10 Views:1635 | [Last Post](/forum/27-checkout/909044-cart-table-growing-in-size-400-000-records#366216 "Hi, First, I had not seen that you were not the same person, sorry. Also, your question in your initial message was about the robots.txt But I don't think changing the robots.txt will help you, if your problem is that you have too many carts in the database. As I said in my first message on this thread, the first thing to do is to reduce the "Frequency of checks for the cart" setting to be as low as possible. Reducing the retaining period is not a good strategy. As you said, it will annoy your customers. Also, it doesn't help reducing the amount of carts. It's the check frequency you want to reduce. Also, you can simultaneously increase the cart_batch_removal_quantity as I was explaining in www.hikashop.com/forum/checkout/909044-c...-records.html#365308 Just doing these 2 things should be way enough in most cases. Regarding the robots.txt I can't say exactly what needs to be done without analyzing the website. Please provide the URL of the shop and I can tell you what you could add to help.") by [nicolas](/forum/user/63-nicolas "View nicolas's Profile") 1 year 7 months ago | | [](/forum/27-checkout/909044-cart-table-growing-in-size-400-000-records#365358) | [Cart table growing in size - 400,000 records!](/forum/27-checkout/909044-cart-table-growing-in-size-400-000-records#365358 "-- HikaShop version -- : 5.1.2 -- Joomla version -- : 5.2 -- PHP version -- : 8.2 Looking at a couple of sites realised the cart table is growing to a ridiculous size. The cart retaining period is setup.") Category: [Checkout](/forum/27-checkout "Everything about the checkout process in Hikashop") Topic started 1 year 9 months ago, by [brainforge](/forum/user/423-brainforge "View brainforge's Profile") [Last Post](/forum/27-checkout/909044-cart-table-growing-in-size-400-000-records#366216 "Hi, First, I had not seen that you were not the same person, sorry. Also, your question in your initial message was about the robots.txt But I don't think changing the robots.txt will help you, if your problem is that you have too many carts in the database. As I said in my first message on this thread, the first thing to do is to reduce the "Frequency of checks for the cart" setting to be as low as possible. Reducing the retaining period is not a good strategy. As you said, it will annoy your customers. Also, it doesn't help reducing the amount of carts. It's the check frequency you want to reduce. Also, you can simultaneously increase the cart_batch_removal_quantity as I was explaining in www.hikashop.com/forum/checkout/909044-c...-records.html#365308 Just doing these 2 things should be way enough in most cases. Regarding the robots.txt I can't say exactly what needs to be done without analyzing the website. Please provide the URL of the shop and I can tell you what you could add to help.") 1 year 7 months ago by [nicolas](/forum/user/63-nicolas "View nicolas's Profile") | Replies:10 Views:1635 | [Last Post](/forum/27-checkout/909044-cart-table-growing-in-size-400-000-records#366216 "Hi, First, I had not seen that you were not the same person, sorry. Also, your question in your initial message was about the robots.txt But I don't think changing the robots.txt will help you, if your problem is that you have too many carts in the database. As I said in my first message on this thread, the first thing to do is to reduce the "Frequency of checks for the cart" setting to be as low as possible. Reducing the retaining period is not a good strategy. As you said, it will annoy your customers. Also, it doesn't help reducing the amount of carts. It's the check frequency you want to reduce. Also, you can simultaneously increase the cart_batch_removal_quantity as I was explaining in www.hikashop.com/forum/checkout/909044-c...-records.html#365308 Just doing these 2 things should be way enough in most cases. Regarding the robots.txt I can't say exactly what needs to be done without analyzing the website. Please provide the URL of the shop and I can tell you what you could add to help.") by [nicolas](/forum/user/63-nicolas "View nicolas's Profile") 1 year 7 months ago | | [](/forum/27-checkout/909044-cart-table-growing-in-size-400-000-records#365305) | [Cart table growing in size - 400,000 records!](/forum/27-checkout/909044-cart-table-growing-in-size-400-000-records#365305 "-- HikaShop version -- : 5.1.2 -- Joomla version -- : 5.2 -- PHP version -- : 8.2 Looking at a couple of sites realised the cart table is growing to a ridiculous size. The cart retaining period is setup.") Category: [Checkout](/forum/27-checkout "Everything about the checkout process in Hikashop") Topic started 1 year 9 months ago, by [brainforge](/forum/user/423-brainforge "View brainforge's Profile") [Last Post](/forum/27-checkout/909044-cart-table-growing-in-size-400-000-records#366216 "Hi, First, I had not seen that you were not the same person, sorry. Also, your question in your initial message was about the robots.txt But I don't think changing the robots.txt will help you, if your problem is that you have too many carts in the database. As I said in my first message on this thread, the first thing to do is to reduce the "Frequency of checks for the cart" setting to be as low as possible. Reducing the retaining period is not a good strategy. As you said, it will annoy your customers. Also, it doesn't help reducing the amount of carts. It's the check frequency you want to reduce. Also, you can simultaneously increase the cart_batch_removal_quantity as I was explaining in www.hikashop.com/forum/checkout/909044-c...-records.html#365308 Just doing these 2 things should be way enough in most cases. Regarding the robots.txt I can't say exactly what needs to be done without analyzing the website. Please provide the URL of the shop and I can tell you what you could add to help.") 1 year 7 months ago by [nicolas](/forum/user/63-nicolas "View nicolas's Profile") | Replies:10 Views:1635 | [Last Post](/forum/27-checkout/909044-cart-table-growing-in-size-400-000-records#366216 "Hi, First, I had not seen that you were not the same person, sorry. Also, your question in your initial message was about the robots.txt But I don't think changing the robots.txt will help you, if your problem is that you have too many carts in the database. As I said in my first message on this thread, the first thing to do is to reduce the "Frequency of checks for the cart" setting to be as low as possible. Reducing the retaining period is not a good strategy. As you said, it will annoy your customers. Also, it doesn't help reducing the amount of carts. It's the check frequency you want to reduce. Also, you can simultaneously increase the cart_batch_removal_quantity as I was explaining in www.hikashop.com/forum/checkout/909044-c...-records.html#365308 Just doing these 2 things should be way enough in most cases. Regarding the robots.txt I can't say exactly what needs to be done without analyzing the website. Please provide the URL of the shop and I can tell you what you could add to help.") by [nicolas](/forum/user/63-nicolas "View nicolas's Profile") 1 year 7 months ago | | [](/forum/28-shipping-methods/909010-what-does-the-shipping-alias-column-do-its-intended-purpose#365304) | [What does the shipping\_alias column do / its intended purpose?](/forum/28-shipping-methods/909010-what-does-the-shipping-alias-column-do-its-intended-purpose#365304 "-- HikaShop version -- : 5.1.2 -- Joomla version -- : 5.2.2 -- PHP version -- : 8.2 Nothing from what I can see. I'm thinking of using it to implement a parent/child shipping setup. Could that potentially create problems? Only the child shipping_id passed to the order so no extra complications there. The idea so far is to setup aliases like this... parent parent-child1 parent-child2 parent-child3 The child methods only appear when the customer selects the parent. Could use a template view override to implement but have an existing plugin which can handle the display. Shipping method restrictions can be applied, separately, to parent and child methods in the usual way.") Category: [Shipping Methods](/forum/28-shipping-methods "Discussions about the different shipping methods for Hikashop") Topic started 1 year 9 months ago, by [brainforge](/forum/user/423-brainforge "View brainforge's Profile") [Last Post](/forum/28-shipping-methods/909010-what-does-the-shipping-alias-column-do-its-intended-purpose#365304 "Thanks.") 1 year 9 months ago by [brainforge](/forum/user/423-brainforge "View brainforge's Profile") | Replies:2 Views:1011 | [Last Post](/forum/28-shipping-methods/909010-what-does-the-shipping-alias-column-do-its-intended-purpose#365304 "Thanks.") by [brainforge](/forum/user/423-brainforge "View brainforge's Profile") 1 year 9 months ago | | [](/forum/27-checkout/909044-cart-table-growing-in-size-400-000-records#365301) | [Cart table growing in size - 400,000 records!](/forum/27-checkout/909044-cart-table-growing-in-size-400-000-records#365301 "-- HikaShop version -- : 5.1.2 -- Joomla version -- : 5.2 -- PHP version -- : 8.2 Looking at a couple of sites realised the cart table is growing to a ridiculous size. The cart retaining period is setup.") Category: [Checkout](/forum/27-checkout "Everything about the checkout process in Hikashop") Topic started 1 year 9 months ago, by [brainforge](/forum/user/423-brainforge "View brainforge's Profile") [Last Post](/forum/27-checkout/909044-cart-table-growing-in-size-400-000-records#366216 "Hi, First, I had not seen that you were not the same person, sorry. Also, your question in your initial message was about the robots.txt But I don't think changing the robots.txt will help you, if your problem is that you have too many carts in the database. As I said in my first message on this thread, the first thing to do is to reduce the "Frequency of checks for the cart" setting to be as low as possible. Reducing the retaining period is not a good strategy. As you said, it will annoy your customers. Also, it doesn't help reducing the amount of carts. It's the check frequency you want to reduce. Also, you can simultaneously increase the cart_batch_removal_quantity as I was explaining in www.hikashop.com/forum/checkout/909044-c...-records.html#365308 Just doing these 2 things should be way enough in most cases. Regarding the robots.txt I can't say exactly what needs to be done without analyzing the website. Please provide the URL of the shop and I can tell you what you could add to help.") 1 year 7 months ago by [nicolas](/forum/user/63-nicolas "View nicolas's Profile") | Replies:10 Views:1635 | [Last Post](/forum/27-checkout/909044-cart-table-growing-in-size-400-000-records#366216 "Hi, First, I had not seen that you were not the same person, sorry. Also, your question in your initial message was about the robots.txt But I don't think changing the robots.txt will help you, if your problem is that you have too many carts in the database. As I said in my first message on this thread, the first thing to do is to reduce the "Frequency of checks for the cart" setting to be as low as possible. Reducing the retaining period is not a good strategy. As you said, it will annoy your customers. Also, it doesn't help reducing the amount of carts. It's the check frequency you want to reduce. Also, you can simultaneously increase the cart_batch_removal_quantity as I was explaining in www.hikashop.com/forum/checkout/909044-c...-records.html#365308 Just doing these 2 things should be way enough in most cases. Regarding the robots.txt I can't say exactly what needs to be done without analyzing the website. Please provide the URL of the shop and I can tell you what you could add to help.") by [nicolas](/forum/user/63-nicolas "View nicolas's Profile") 1 year 7 months ago | | [](/forum/28-shipping-methods/909010-what-does-the-shipping-alias-column-do-its-intended-purpose#365151) | [What does the shipping\_alias column do / its intended purpose?](/forum/28-shipping-methods/909010-what-does-the-shipping-alias-column-do-its-intended-purpose#365151 "-- HikaShop version -- : 5.1.2 -- Joomla version -- : 5.2.2 -- PHP version -- : 8.2 Nothing from what I can see. I'm thinking of using it to implement a parent/child shipping setup. Could that potentially create problems? Only the child shipping_id passed to the order so no extra complications there. The idea so far is to setup aliases like this... parent parent-child1 parent-child2 parent-child3 The child methods only appear when the customer selects the parent. Could use a template view override to implement but have an existing plugin which can handle the display. Shipping method restrictions can be applied, separately, to parent and child methods in the usual way.") Category: [Shipping Methods](/forum/28-shipping-methods "Discussions about the different shipping methods for Hikashop") Topic started 1 year 9 months ago, by [brainforge](/forum/user/423-brainforge "View brainforge's Profile") [Last Post](/forum/28-shipping-methods/909010-what-does-the-shipping-alias-column-do-its-intended-purpose#365304 "Thanks.") 1 year 9 months ago by [brainforge](/forum/user/423-brainforge "View brainforge's Profile") | Replies:2 Views:1011 | [Last Post](/forum/28-shipping-methods/909010-what-does-the-shipping-alias-column-do-its-intended-purpose#365304 "Thanks.") by [brainforge](/forum/user/423-brainforge "View brainforge's Profile") 1 year 9 months ago | | [](/forum/25-install-update/908006-update-geolocation-plugin-from-ipinfodb-com-to-ip2location-io#360303) | [Update Geolocation plugin from ipinfodb.com to IP2Location.io?](/forum/25-install-update/908006-update-geolocation-plugin-from-ipinfodb-com-to-ip2location-io#360303 "-- HikaShop version -- : 5.0.3 It's not possible to register on ipinfodb.com anymore ( www.ipinfodb.com/register ). They advise to register at their new api IP2Location.io Is the hikashop geolocation plugin updated for this?") Category: [Install & Update](/forum/25-install-update "Having an installation or update issue? You will probably find some help here.") Topic started 2 years 6 months ago, by [janhart](/forum/user/80093-janhart "View janhart's Profile") [Last Post](/forum/25-install-update/908006-update-geolocation-plugin-from-ipinfodb-com-to-ip2location-io#360303 "An alternative to plg_system_hikashopgeolocation which uses IP2Location.io is now available here: www.brainforge.co.uk/shop/downloads/product/61-ip2location") 2 years 6 months ago by [brainforge](/forum/user/423-brainforge "View brainforge's Profile") | Replies:2 Views:946 | [Last Post](/forum/25-install-update/908006-update-geolocation-plugin-from-ipinfodb-com-to-ip2location-io#360303 "An alternative to plg_system_hikashopgeolocation which uses IP2Location.io is now available here: www.brainforge.co.uk/shop/downloads/product/61-ip2location") by [brainforge](/forum/user/423-brainforge "View brainforge's Profile") 2 years 6 months ago | | [](/forum/31-development/892999-extensions-for-hikashop-by-brainforge#344049) | [Extensions for Hikashop by BrainForge](/forum/31-development/892999-extensions-for-hikashop-by-brainforge#344049) Category: [Development](/forum/31-development "If you are developping a plugin for Hikashop or customizing our component, this is the board to be.") Topic started 8 years 11 months ago, by [brainforge](/forum/user/423-brainforge "View brainforge's Profile") [Last Post](/forum/31-development/892999-extensions-for-hikashop-by-brainforge#344049 "More extensions for Hikashop available from Brainforge.UK - Section 2 Sales and Order Reports Component www.brainforge.co.uk/shop/paid-downloads...reports-for-hikashop Emailoctopus Subscription Management Plugin www.brainforge.co.uk/shop/paid-downloads...scription-management Postcode Address Lookup Plugin www.brainforge.co.uk/shop/paid-downloads...tcode-address-lookup Unleashed Inventory Management Integration Experience www.brainforge.co.uk/shop/paid-downloads...nagement-integration Related Product Categories Plugin www.brainforge.co.uk/shop/free-downloads...t-categories-listing Custom Field for Related Articles Plugin www.brainforge.co.uk/shop/free-downloads...for-related-articles") 4 years 2 months ago by [brainforge](/forum/user/423-brainforge "View brainforge's Profile") | Replies:2 Views:4546 | [Last Post](/forum/31-development/892999-extensions-for-hikashop-by-brainforge#344049 "More extensions for Hikashop available from Brainforge.UK - Section 2 Sales and Order Reports Component www.brainforge.co.uk/shop/paid-downloads...reports-for-hikashop Emailoctopus Subscription Management Plugin www.brainforge.co.uk/shop/paid-downloads...scription-management Postcode Address Lookup Plugin www.brainforge.co.uk/shop/paid-downloads...tcode-address-lookup Unleashed Inventory Management Integration Experience www.brainforge.co.uk/shop/paid-downloads...nagement-integration Related Product Categories Plugin www.brainforge.co.uk/shop/free-downloads...t-categories-listing Custom Field for Related Articles Plugin www.brainforge.co.uk/shop/free-downloads...for-related-articles") by [brainforge](/forum/user/423-brainforge "View brainforge's Profile") 4 years 2 months ago | | [](/forum/31-development/892999-extensions-for-hikashop-by-brainforge#342559) | [Extensions for Hikashop by BrainForge](/forum/31-development/892999-extensions-for-hikashop-by-brainforge#342559) Category: [Development](/forum/31-development "If you are developping a plugin for Hikashop or customizing our component, this is the board to be.") Topic started 8 years 11 months ago, by [brainforge](/forum/user/423-brainforge "View brainforge's Profile") [Last Post](/forum/31-development/892999-extensions-for-hikashop-by-brainforge#344049 "More extensions for Hikashop available from Brainforge.UK - Section 2 Sales and Order Reports Component www.brainforge.co.uk/shop/paid-downloads...reports-for-hikashop Emailoctopus Subscription Management Plugin www.brainforge.co.uk/shop/paid-downloads...scription-management Postcode Address Lookup Plugin www.brainforge.co.uk/shop/paid-downloads...tcode-address-lookup Unleashed Inventory Management Integration Experience www.brainforge.co.uk/shop/paid-downloads...nagement-integration Related Product Categories Plugin www.brainforge.co.uk/shop/free-downloads...t-categories-listing Custom Field for Related Articles Plugin www.brainforge.co.uk/shop/free-downloads...for-related-articles") 4 years 2 months ago by [brainforge](/forum/user/423-brainforge "View brainforge's Profile") | Replies:2 Views:4546 | [Last Post](/forum/31-development/892999-extensions-for-hikashop-by-brainforge#344049 "More extensions for Hikashop available from Brainforge.UK - Section 2 Sales and Order Reports Component www.brainforge.co.uk/shop/paid-downloads...reports-for-hikashop Emailoctopus Subscription Management Plugin www.brainforge.co.uk/shop/paid-downloads...scription-management Postcode Address Lookup Plugin www.brainforge.co.uk/shop/paid-downloads...tcode-address-lookup Unleashed Inventory Management Integration Experience www.brainforge.co.uk/shop/paid-downloads...nagement-integration Related Product Categories Plugin www.brainforge.co.uk/shop/free-downloads...t-categories-listing Custom Field for Related Articles Plugin www.brainforge.co.uk/shop/free-downloads...for-related-articles") by [brainforge](/forum/user/423-brainforge "View brainforge's Profile") 4 years 2 months ago | | [](/forum/27-checkout/903285-recoverable-fatal-error-object-of-class-stdclass-could-not-be-converted-to-stri#336168) | [Recoverable fatal error: Object of class stdClass could not be converted to stri](/forum/27-checkout/903285-recoverable-fatal-error-object-of-class-stdclass-could-not-be-converted-to-stri#336168 "-- HikaShop version -- : 4.4.3 -- Joomla version -- : 3.10.2 -- PHP version -- : 7.3.31 -- Browser(s) name and version -- : Edge -- Error-message(debug-mod must be tuned on) -- : Recoverable fatal error: Object of class stdClass could not be converted to string in /home/claycellar/public_html/administrator/components/com_hikashop/classes/zone.php on line 71 Hi guys, when a user goes to the checkout and needs to select the shipping tab i get error 500 on the front-end. After enabling site debug and error report to development i get: Recoverable fatal error: Object of class stdClass could not be converted to string in /xxxxx/administrator/components/com_hikashop/classes/zone.php on line 71 Can you please let me know how should i sort it out?") Category: [Checkout](/forum/27-checkout "Everything about the checkout process in Hikashop") Topic started 5 years 4 weeks ago, by [jberry210490](/forum/user/6511-jberry210490 "View jberry210490's Profile") [Last Post](/forum/27-checkout/903285-recoverable-fatal-error-object-of-class-stdclass-could-not-be-converted-to-stri#336174 "Hi, Thanks, I can see what is the problem. Change the code: to: in the file administrator/components/com_hikashop/classes/zone.php a few lines above and you should not have the problem anymore. We'll add the modification on our end.") 5 years 3 weeks ago by [nicolas](/forum/user/63-nicolas "View nicolas's Profile") | Replies:5 Views:1225 | [Last Post](/forum/27-checkout/903285-recoverable-fatal-error-object-of-class-stdclass-could-not-be-converted-to-stri#336174 "Hi, Thanks, I can see what is the problem. Change the code: to: in the file administrator/components/com_hikashop/classes/zone.php a few lines above and you should not have the problem anymore. We'll add the modification on our end.") by [nicolas](/forum/user/63-nicolas "View nicolas's Profile") 5 years 3 weeks ago | [](/forum/topics/feed/mode-topics?format=feed&type=rss) Time to create page: 0.279 seconds [Powered by](/forum/credits) [Kunena Forum](https://www.kunena.org)