Question for Plugin Developers and Licenses

Hi, and hoping someone might be able to help/steer me in the right direction?

I'm looking at licensing my plugins, but I'm a little stuck on local installs (e.g. localhost).

I can create the license key no problems, using either the domain, or url, plus a private key, and salt.

For instance this:

Encrypt(siteUrl, productKey, saltkey)

Would give me this key: R4GxXbnj7IeWbCh81/flOfMLTG15K8YzoieqKZwbq1+bLv2SvIp4vQ==

I can then decrypt that key, which would give me the domain/url, which I can then validate with no problems.

The issue I have, is I can't validate if the site is running on localhost (I can of course check if local) - So, can this be done, or do I only allow for them to be validated on a live server? I don't want to have to 'phone home' if I can get away with it.

Thanks in advance,
Craig

RE: "I can't validate if the site is running on localhost"
Why not?
That's what we do.  For testing, we issue licenses for localhost.

Thank for replying :)

Do you issue two separate licences, or just allow the plugin to run with full functionality on localhost?

Craig

Licenses are purchased our site per URL (or Domain) for production on.  We manually generate other licenses on request at no charge and email them:
- localhost
- for pre-sales testing on a production URL  (2-3 weeks expiration)
- during and after sales; for dev / testing / QA  (no expiration if it's obvious that the URL is a test site; e.g. IP addresses, test.mysite.com,  somename.azurewebsites.net, etc.)

Can any one  help me, how to customize add product form.
for examples -  add new elements and disable non required fields.

@100rabh
Please post a new topic (Your question is not related to this topic).  In your new topic, indicate what version of nopCommerce you are using and whether you are a developer.  Also clarify further what you are trying do (ie. trying to limit what fields the store administrator can see / edit?)

New York wrote:

Thanks @New York that's given me some things to consider :)

Hi,

I am working on creating a plugin which has a overriding view from the Nop.web/views folder. But i found that the view which i am trying to overriding has been already overridden by one of the installed plugin (i need this plugin installed my any means). So now, i am trying to override the same view(but its in a different name and divided into partial views in the other plugin) from the already installed plugin and in order to override i need to invoke the Model class from that installed plugin.

So now, i am referring the assembly  of installed plugin in my custom plugin and using custom view engine i am overriding the view that i wanted.

So now my question is, is it a correct approach to refer the assembly of one of the already installed view and override one of its view.

Thanks

@lsundaram
Please post a new topic (Your question is not related to this topic).