Theme purchase code

Hi,
I'm hoping someone can help me out here and that it's posted in the right place. I recently purchased a theme from the market place called Ronixa Theme for OpenCart version 4.0.2.3. It was installed using PHP 8.1 and I'm working in Chrome, although I have also tested it in Edge, and I'm having the same problem there.

For quite a while, everything was working great, and I was setting everything up, but then one day, the theme/extension requested my purchase code again, even though I had already typed that in when I first installed it. For some reason, I now don't have access to the theme. It's running on the store front, but I can't edit it in the admin panel. I have been in contact with the developer, but they say that no one else is having this problem. They suggested trying to install it on another server, but I don't have that option as I only have one hosting.

So, I took a break from it and came back to it today, and it asked for the purchase code again, and this time it took the code. It was working fine again. I took a break and came back to it a couple of hours later, and now it's asking for the code again. I just don't understand what is keeping it from accepting it or at least keeping it stored. Has anyone else experience anything similar?

I have done the usual, cleared everything in browsing history, restarted browser, restarted computer, used different browsers, and still nothing. Does any of this seem familiar, or do I just have to use the basic OpenCart? This is my second attempt with a theme, and for some reason it just stops working after a while. Everything is up to date. What am I doing wrong? Or is it not me?

You are probably doing nothing wrong here. Just be aware that OC 4.0.2.3 still has a number of bugs, we don't recommend using it for live stores yet.

As regards themes: Most 3rd party themes are of poor quality and not worth the money. You should contact the theme author and ask them to fix it, or at least to remove the code which causes the prompt for a purchase code, this is against the open source philosophy anyway.

Thank you for your reply. What version would be best recommended for a live shop then? There are so many.

Also, how would one remove the purchase code request in the coding, or would I have to ask the developer to remove it? I asked them once why a single one time code verification wasn't enough. They said, they didn't want people to share the theme, which would make sense, so apparently it checks for the code every time I use it.

InfinityRogue wrote: ↑

Fri Sep 13, 2024 2:12 pm

Thank you for your reply. What version would be best recommended for a live shop then? There are so many.

Also, how would one remove the purchase code request in the coding, or would I have to ask the developer to remove it? I asked them once why a single one time code verification wasn't enough. They said, they didn't want people to share the theme, which would make sense, so apparently it checks for the code every time I use it.

I'm using 3.0.4.0 which works fine.

InfinityRogue wrote: ↑

Fri Sep 13, 2024 2:12 pm

Also, how would one remove the purchase code request in the coding, or would I have to ask the developer to remove it? I asked them once why a single one time code verification wasn't enough. They said, they didn't want people to share the theme, which would make sense, so apparently it checks for the code every time I use it.

First of all, if an extension developer is using such an arguement, he disqualifier himself!
To understand what I mean, fact is that OpenCart is published under the GNU/GPL licence.
Which means, every extension rely on OpenCart - has to be published under the same license.

Furthermore, if an extension is encrypted (btw. which is strictly forbidden by the license and OpenCart), the user has the right to get the uncrypted version in any case (on demand).

Now they say that they do not want that people share the theme .. interesting!
What will you share, and why?
And if, GNU/GPL comes again and say: if you want to share .. please do it!

Second: if their business case is based on such a poor arguement, and the extension (here the theme) cannot be operated without any (license) check in the background, one reason more the get your money back!
Because: is it somewhere stated BEFORE you buy it, that such a mechanism is working in the background - guess not!

To come to an end: nearly every license check can be disabled.
And no developer can do anything against that.

Means, if you want, disable this check.
Possible that you have to put something there to "simulate" a successful check.
If you do not know how and where, contact a developer you trust and pay for that work.

Regarding the OpenCart Version: currently (sad to write such!) best version is to use 3.0.4.0: https://github.com/opencart/opencart/re ... ag/3.0.4.0
All 4.x version are not useable as per today!