X-Cart Gold 30-day trial (v4.2.0)

The evaluation version of X-Cart Gold is encoded with ionCube technology. Generally, the system requirements are the same as for the commercial version, but ionCube limits PHP to version 4.1.0 or better if you have FreeBSD, Linux, NetBSD, OpenBSD, Solaris or Windows.

Unfortunately, the free trial demo is not upgradable to commercial X-Cart. Thus you will have to re-install it from scratch. However it is possible to export products and categories from the trial demo and then import into the commercial version. Also, it is possible to migrate templates of free trial demo into the full version (taking into account that the release number of free trial can differ from the latest release of the commercial X-Cart).

No. Do not install X-Cart trial version to the web root directory unless you are absolutely sure about what you are doing. During installation X-Cart creates a number of files in the directory you install it to. If by accident any name of X-Cart files matches your existing files, your files will be overwritten and your website can be damaged. The best choice is to create a directory in your web root, for example, /xcart_trial, and install X-Cart trial version to this directory.

The source code is not corrupted, but encrypted with IonCube technology.

IonCube is a source code protection engine. It is used only in the trial version of the X-Cart software. IonCube compiles PHP files in encrypted binary format, that is why a special loader is needed to run compiled files at your host. All necessary loaders are bundled with the trial demo.

Possible reasons why ionCube is not working at your host:

• ionCube loader not found (You are using MS Windows and X-Cart and PHP are located on different logical drives (eg. PHP is installed on disk C: and X-Cart on disk D:). To resolve this, move X-Cart to the same disk as PHP or put all loader files from the xcart/ioncube directory to the directory defined in the variable extension_dir in php.ini file (c:\php4\extensions\ by default). Also, you can visit the ionCube PHP Loader homepage, download the valid loaders for your system and install them following the instructions, provided in the README file in loaders archive) supported version of PHP (Currently versions of PHP 4.0.6 - 5.x.x are supported)
• Dynamic loading is disabled on your system (for example, safe mode is on)
• Unsupported operation system (Currently X-Cart trial is available for Windows NT/2000/2003/XP, FreeBSD 4&5, Linux Intel, Solaris Sparc)

It should be uploaded to your site in BINARY mode, because it contains non-text files, and uploading the files in ASCII mode may damage the contents of the distributive.

The auth code is "DEMO" (without quotes).

X-Cart 30-day free trial is distributed in encrypted form, so you cannot view or modify the PHP code. Commercial version of X-Cart is provided to you with complete source code that can be easily extended or customized.

If you use WinZip to unpack the .tgz then you must disable the 'TAR file smart CR/LF conversion' under Options -> Configuration -> Miscellaneous menu.

Yes, all templates can be customized using a built-in template editor or any external text editor.

No, it's impossible. You can download the latest version of the trial and reinstall it.

The trial versions are not available at the moment. We consider releasing them in future.

It seems that one or several files of X-Cart trial demo were modified somehow. Please note that the trial demo expires in 30 days after it was downloaded from our web-site. So it seems that the reason of 'corrupted' or 'expired' warning message is file corruption.

Possible reasons:

1. Files were corrupted during decompression. If you use WinZip to decompress the .tgz then you must disable the 'TAR file smart CR/LF conversion' option found on the options -> configuration -> miscellaneous menu. WinZip may not remember its settings so don't quit WinZip at this point, just unpack the files. Then the files will not be corrupted.
2. Files were uploaded in FTP ACSII mode (automatic selector of FTP mode will upload files in ASCII mode!!!).
3. Someone attempted to edit the .php files of X-Cart free trial demo.

Solution: remove the "expired" copy of the demo, re-download free trial demo from our web-site, unpack it and upload properly and run the installation wizard one more time.

If for some reason the X-Cart trial does not work on your host, this doesn't mean that the full version will not work as well. The trial version is encrypted with ionCube technology which applies restrictions to the operating system environment and web server configurations. Full version of X-Cart will work on any OS where PHP/MySQL meets minimum system requirements.

• The trial version expires in 30 days after downloading
• Interfaces to online payment gateways (CC/ACH) are disabled
• Realtime shipping calculation is disabled
• Patch/upgrade engine is disabled
• HTML catalog is disabled
• Partially notifications are disabled (admin/provider would not receive mail notifications about new orders)
• Customers occasionally get the nag screen while surfing in customer's area
• X-Cart purges the orders queue at a random moment.