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Ivan, If you need help we'd need to know more about what you've installed and what you are clicking on to generate the message.

Frank, The main (and only) part I can see that deals with emails is in admin/quotes.php As that file is copied directly in with no changes there could only really be a couple of potential problems, 1, you've somehow had a corruption on upload/download of that file 2, the email address to send the quote to is store in your mysql database, have you applied the sql statements? Try this sql query and see if it brings back any rows: SELECT * FROM products p where quotes_email_address like '%@%'; if not, it's a sql table problem, go back through and run the sql commands I assume that your site's emails work for other pages? create account / place orders etc? Steve...

Jack, I've spotted that you need to add " and quotes_email_address NOT LIKE '%@%'" to "\includes\boxes\best_sellers.php" as it's showing my quotes in the best sellers box. Steve...

Frank, I don't think that the error is there, although I'm not too hot on code. Do you have a test site I could take a look at? Steve...

In admin/quotes.php look for two instances of the word disabled (around line 170) and change to enabled This will allow you to select the 2 ghosted out buttons in the admin page to email the customer. Steve...

Jack, Excellent contribution, only one small error that I can see is... All of the select statements below all says p.customers_email_address when it would be p.quotes_email_address Other than that, fantastic contrib, keep up the good work. Steve...

I'm also very interested in the specials idea, that'd save me an absolute age. So far as deleting through excel, that's definately a no. all you could do is set the items to inactive and then delete them on mass through sql, could get messy though. Make sure you back up first!

It seems that there is a problem with the temp location. Open the easypopulate.php file, search for $tempdir (there should be 2 lines) remove the /catalog/ entry in one of them, give it a try. If that doesn't work try the other one. I had problems (almost identical) and that cured it for me.

you need to have a few more columns. the first one needs to be v_products_model and the last few need to be (in this order) v_tax_class_title, then, v_status, then, EOREOR. The best thing to do is to download your current store, then make any amendments keeping the structure as much the same as possible, then upload it. If it works then it'll be because of you struture modification, if it doesn't then it means that you haven't applied the contrib correctly.

The only suggestion is if this guy geels so strongly about this, then maybe he should use try to create a contribution of his own that fulfills all of HIS requirements. Maybe then other people can be harsh and critisize his contrib

On excel you need to change the format of the date field into text. This is done through format>cells, then text. Although (to the best of my knowledge) you do not need to have that column in your file, because if it isn't there then EP won't know to change ay of these values. Let me know how you get on. Steve...

This is happening because although the auction says it's ended, the time of auction end still says a future date. i.e. you're trying to check out @ 9:20, but the auction close time is for next tuesday at 10:00. You'll need to manually change the ended time, unless smitty has a hack to fix this. Steve...

Let me start off by saying thank you very much smitty for this contrib, it's an excellent idea! But i'm a bit of a control freak, I like to know what's going on. When using the old contrib I could ceate an auction and then check out (sort of running a test to see what the customer sees and also to check I haven't messed anything up while updating the dite. Is there anyway of creating a dummy auction so I can see the whole process?

Thanks for that. It works a treat!

Smitty1 I have a problem with the mod you've created. Once an item is sold it still comes up as 0.00 Once I chnge that to the final sale price as soon as I next update it creates another auction line. I delete the new one @ 0.00 The customer checks out using the auctionfinder, the item changes to checked out, but as soon as i touch the Auction update button it creates this phantom line again saying ended and final price is 0.00 Any ideas? Have i missed something with your contribution? Thanks Steve...

I've tried it already with 8 hours, but even now, when I have almost 3 hours left to go, my auction page says ended. Also, Does this auction module automatically send an e-mail when the auction closes? or do I have to go in and do it manually? Also, (not much more left to go) How's the new module going smitty?

I'm using smitty's update, but the end of auction time doesn't appear correctly on my admin pages. it' about 24 hours out. I'm UK based, so am GMT. I've put 8 hours difference into the auction info box. Is that right?

It's not too clear from the documentation it took the same error message to make me look at the code again.

sorry just to clarify. it's the $tempdir variable you'll need to edit go into easypopulate.php and search for $tempdir you'll need to remove one of the /catalog 's Here's an extract from mine $tempdir = "/temp/"; $tempdir2 = "/store/temp/"; I think your $tempdir will say /catalog/temp/

the problem here is with the configuration of the contrib. If you read the docs fully there is a section that mentions catalog/temp and /temp you'll see Warning: move_uploaded_file(/www/symposiumbooks/catalog/catalog/temp/EP2003Nov12-1111.txt): failed to open stream: No such file or directory in /home/www/symposiumbooks/catalog/admin/easypopulate_functions.php on line 32

Moreover, it would work as such: Master: Nurses Outfit Slave 1: Nurses Outfit in XXL Black Spandex Slave 2: Nurses Outfit in L White Spandex Slave 3: Nurses Outfit in XL White Spandex You might ask "Why not just use attributes?". My answer would be that in this case, it is possible that they don't carry an XXL White version, only XXL black... But a better thing to look at would be to check out my post here: http://www.oscommerce.com/forums/index.php?showtopic=67277 You can see a live example, both nonOSC and OSC (using this mod) that really show how this is best used. -Zac the only question I have is why on earth would you want a XXL nurses uniform? I know I'd rather have a nice size S!! :D

the simple solution I use is paypal IPN. Regardless of whether the customer presses continue or not, as long as they press accept (or what ever the button says to agree to send the cash) the order is created and verified in the admin pages. http://www.oscommerce.com/community/contributions,1352 This is the contrib. It took me about 2 hours to get it sorted because i didn't rea EVERY line. Once I figured it out it took about 15 minutes to get installed, tested and set up for live transactions

This is a function of Purchase without an account. Re-check the install instructions with that. There is a section that mentions commenting out a big section of the anonymous accounts. If you do what it says you'll have new accounts created for everyone who checks out with the auction manager

There is a new update, realeased about 3 days ago that fixes this problem.

I use this contrib http://www.oscommerce.com/community/contributions,326 I diable the catagory, then disable the default item. I have no problems with using this.