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If you install the free version of CRELoaded, you will see that they have sneaked some Google adverts onto the bottom of your site.

Above the adverts will be the text

This site is a member of the CRE Loaded Open Source Ecommerce Software community

Bit of an underhand tactic but I suppose you have to try to make cash where you can these days…

I could go onto a big rant about how they are trying to make cash by simply repackaging software which was always meant to be given away freely and without hitches, including both osCommerce and the multitude of contributions they have added on there. I’m not going to though. CRELoaded is a good product and these guys are keeping the osCommerce platform as a viable modern open source ecommerce platform.

Anyway – cut to the chase – to get rid of these annoying adverts all you have to do is open up

includes/javascript/cart_links.js.php

It should look like this:

<?php if ($cart_links == 'close'){$cart_link1= 'dothis';} else if ($cart_links == 'close') {$paymentclose = 'true';} if ( strstr(basename($_SERVER['SCRIPT_FILENAME']),'popup_') != basename($_SERVER['SCRIPT_FILENAME'] ) ) {@include('http://www.creloaded.com/cre_google.js');}
 ?>

and replace the entire contents with

<?php if ($cart_links == 'close'){$cart_link1= 'dothis';} else if ($cart_links == 'close') {$paymentclose = 'true';}
/*
 if ( strstr(basename($_SERVER['SCRIPT_FILENAME']),'popup_') != basename($_SERVER['SCRIPT_FILENAME'] ) ) {@include('http://www.creloaded.com/cre_google.js');}
 */
 ?>

That’s it.


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10 Responses to “CRELoaded Remove Google Ads –”

  1. E.Lantz says:

    CRELoaded 6.3 Remove Google Ads –

    The above post clearly explains how to remove the hidden Google Ads from an Open Source installation of osCommerce CRELoaded 6.2. The following is my solution to the CRELoaded 6.3 Google Adds.
    1. Open includes/template_application_top.php
    2. Scroll to line 47 or where is says:

    Before:

    function cre_uregisterBasicFunctions(){$ch = curl_init();$timeout = 5;curl_setopt ($ch, CURLOPT_URL, 'http://www.creloaded.com/cre_google.js.html');curl_setopt ($ch, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, 1);curl_setopt ($ch, CURLOPT_CONNECTTIMEOUT, $timeout);$file_contents = curl_exec($ch);curl_close($ch);echo $file_contents;}
    } else {function cre_uregisterBasicFunctions(){@include('http://www.creloaded.com/cre_google.js.html');}}
    

    After:

    if(function_exists("curl_init") &&  function_exists("curl_setopt") && function_exists("curl_exec") && function_exists("curl_close")){
    function cre_uregisterBasicFunctions(){$ch = curl_init();$timeout = 5;curl_setopt /*($ch, CURLOPT_URL, 'http://www.creloaded.com/cre_google.js.html')*/;curl_setopt ($ch, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, 1);curl_setopt ($ch, CURLOPT_CONNECTTIMEOUT, $timeout);$file_contents = curl_exec($ch);curl_close($ch);echo $file_contents;}
    }/* else {function cre_uregisterBasicFunctions(){@include('http://www.creloaded.com/cre_google.js.html');}}*/
    

    Please note where I have commented out certain portions of the code.
    It’s a very simple fix but both sections need to be commented out or deleted.
    Ez

    (edited by admin for clarity)

  2. admin says:

    Thanks for that E Lantz

  3. rajah says:

    E.Lantz, you’re awesome! Thanks for your contribution. Ive been searching for the past two days and many people are searching for this solution. Glad I came across this post! Thanks again.

  4. Chris says:

    Thanks for the tutorial, was looking everywhere for the v6.3 guide. Very informative

  5. admin says:

    just for clarification there

    I would personally recommend commenting out the whole block for performance reasons

  6. xaurav says:

    Please Correct it

    Replace

    function cre_uregisterBasicFunctions(){$ch = curl_init();$timeout = 5;curl_setopt ($ch, CURLOPT_URL, ‘http://www.creloaded.com/cre_google.js.html’);curl_setopt ($ch, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, 1);curl_setopt ($ch, CURLOPT_CONNECTTIMEOUT, $timeout);$file_contents = curl_exec($ch);curl_close($ch);echo $file_contents;}
    } else {function cre_uregisterBasicFunctions(){@include(‘http://www.creloaded.com/cre_google.js.html’);}}

    With

    function cre_uregisterBasicFunctions(){$ch = curl_init();$timeout = 5;curl_setopt /*($ch, CURLOPT_URL, ‘http://www.creloaded.com/cre_google.js.html’)*/;curl_setopt ($ch, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, 1);curl_setopt ($ch, CURLOPT_CONNECTTIMEOUT, $timeout);$file_contents = curl_exec($ch);curl_close($ch);echo $file_contents;}
    }/* else {function cre_uregisterBasicFunctions(){@include(‘http://www.creloaded.com/cre_google.js.html’);}}*/

  7. Mircea says:

    Simpler and better solution,
    replace the above function with:
    if (function_exists(“curl_init”) && function_exists(“curl_setopt”) && function_exists(“curl_exec”) && function_exists(“curl_close”)) {
    function cre_uregisterBasicFunctions(){
    return true;
    }
    } else {
    function cre_uregisterBasicFunctions(){
    return true;
    }
    }

  8. supriti says:

    Thanks A LOT !!!!
    U r Amazing !

    I have been looking for the solution for so many hrs

    Thanks again …. :)

  9. Anantha.KN says:

    Thank you for the help

  10. Key2 says:

    Thanks E Lantz :)

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