CE Phoenix Cart Forum

Hi, I've had this store for years with no issue. But today it was hit by thousands of visitors (or maybe hackers, bots etc) and after some while, some of my images and text stopped displaying/loading on the product info page.

I am missing the product name, product price, seo description and some gallery images. Please can you help with help with this? Could it be a database issue as this only happens on the product info page.

I need the following global values which are missing from where they ought to display:

<?php echo sprintf(MODULE_CONTENT_PI_NAME_DISPLAY_NAME, $products_name); ?>

<?php echo (tep_not_null($specials_price)) ? sprintf(MODULE_CONTENT_PI_PRICE_DISPLAY_SPECIAL, $specials_price, $products_price) : sprintf(MODULE_CONTENT_PI_PRICE_DISPLAY, $products_price); ?>

<?php echo $product_info['products_seo_description']; ?>

Are these still valid for Phoenix cart?

My version is CE-Phoenix-1.0.7.18

1. Is this data missing on the display of all products, or only some of them?
2. If you view a product in admin, can you see the data that doesn't show in the catalog?
3. For the images, it may be that your browser couldn't load them due to the traffic overwhelming the server and has cached them as missing. Try viewing using an incognito window which won't use the cache.

BrockleyJohn wrote: ↑Tue Jul 22, 2025 6:06 am 1. Is this data missing on the display of all products, or only some of them?
2. If you view a product in admin, can you see the data that doesn't show in the catalog?
3. For the images, it may be that your browser couldn't load them due to the traffic overwhelming the server and has cached them as missing. Try viewing using an incognito window which won't use the cache.

Thank you @BrockleyJohn for your input.

The data missing is on all products but I can confirm the data is all there in admin. I spent most of last night trying to get things back up and running by using raw data and file backups. I had block all traffic to my store except myself of course whilst trying to sort this out. Restoring a backup copy of my products_info.php file finally got store back online early this morning.

Today I still see a high number of hits to store. Looked in phpMyAdmin and there are high thousands of sessions and users online. At time of this post, I took this snapshot of who's online:


I don't know what to make of that but the hits have not turned out to orders. So, I'm inclined to think this is something malicious. What say you?

Hi

Not sure if this is any help, but if the data is showing in admin but not in the store I would look to see if all your modules are still installed for the product info modules. You may ned to uninstall them first before reinstalling them in your admin.

Just an Idea.

Have you compared the differences between the product_info file that wasn't working and the backup you found that fixed it? It will help understand the cause of the issue.

Have you got spider sessions prevented? Admin > Configuration > Sessions > Prevent Spider Sessions
This will keep your sessions table smaller.

Have you got a reasonably up to date includes/spiders.txt? This will recognise more spiders.
Here's a pretty comprehensive list

@BrockleyJohn this file has not been updated in years, can I please use that list to update core?

burt wrote: ↑Tue Jul 22, 2025 3:24 pm @BrockleyJohn this file has not been updated in years, can I please use that list to update core?

Absolutely. Looking at it, it could do with a bit of optimisation - the string "spider" would cover all the other lines that include it.

I have a couple of sites that have enhanced spider code that logs any agents including spider, crawl, bot and so on to identify possible new ones for manual checking. There have been a lot of ai ones lately.

BrockleyJohn wrote: ↑Tue Jul 22, 2025 3:03 pm Have you compared the differences between the product_info file that wasn't working and the backup you found that fixed it? It will help understand the cause of the issue.

Have you got spider sessions prevented? Admin > Configuration > Sessions > Prevent Spider Sessions
This will keep your sessions table smaller.

Have you got a reasonably up to date includes/spiders.txt? This will recognise more spiders.

Here's a pretty comprehensive list

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2ip bot
abachobot
accoona-ai-agent
addsugarspiderbot
adsbot-google
ahrefsbot
aliyunsecbot
almaden.ibm.com
amazonbot
applebot
arachmo
archive.org_bot
baiduspider
barkrowler
becomebot
beslistbot
bimbot
bingbot
bitlybot
bitsightbot
bl.uk_lddc_bot
brightedge
bytespider
centurybot
chatgpt-user
cincraw
clarity-bot
claudebot
clickagy intelligence bot
cloudservermarketspider
dataparksearch
diffbot
discordbot
dnbcrawler
dotbot
dropboxpreviewbot
duckassistbot
duckduckbot
ecovadissustainabilitybot
envolk[its]spider
ev-crawler
exabot
facebookexternalhit
facebot
fast enterprise crawler
fast-webcrawler
faviconfetcherbot
friendlycrawler
furlbot
fyberspider
galaxybot
gigabot
girafabot
google-adwords-instant
googlebot
googlebot-image
google-safety
gptbot
gulperbot
holmes
hubspot crawler
ia_archiver
iaskbot
ichiro
icjobs
igdespyder
imagesiftbot
ioncrawl
irlbot
jobboersebot
keys-so-bot
l.webis
larbin
ldspider
lexxebot
linguee bot
linkwalker
linkedinbot
lmspider
lwp-trivial
mabontland
magpie-crawler
mediapartners-google
meta-externalagent
mixrankbot
mj12bot
mnogosearch
mojeekbot
moreoverbot
morning paper
msiecrawler
msnbot
mxbot
mycrawler
netpeakcheckerbot
netresearchserver
netseer crawler
newsgator
ng-search
nicebot
nicecrawler
noxtrumbot
nutchcvs
oai-searchbot
obot
oozbot
orangebot
orbbot
pandalytics
perplexitybot
pingbot
pinterestbot
poesearchbot
polybot
psbot
pulsepoint-crawler
pycurl
qwantbot
redditbot
scoutjet
screaming frog seo spider
scrubby
searchatlas bot
seekbot
seekportbot
semrushbot
seobilitybot
seochat::bot
sebot-wa
seznambot
shim-crawler
shopwiki
shoula robot
silk
siteauditbot
snappy
sogou spider
sosospider
speedy spider
spider
stackrambler
storebot-google
suggybot
superbot
surdotlybot
sustainabilitycrawler
synoobot
tenmilliondomainsbot
teoma
t3versionsbot
thumbnail.cz robot
timpibot
tineye
tsmbot
turnitinbot
twengabot
twitterbot
urlcheckerbot
urlfilebot
vagabondo
virustotalbot
voltron
websquash.com
webzip
who.is bot
wpbot
yacy
yadirectfetcher
yahoo! slurp
yahooseeker
yandexbot
yandeximages
yandexmobilebot
yandexnews
yandexrenderresourcesbot
yeti
yodaobot
youbot
youdaobot
zealbot
zyborg

Thanks @BrockleyJohn

My sessions settings are correct and do not permit spider sessions. I'll update my includes/spiders.txt fo additional protection.