niknakgroup

http://www.oscommerce.com/community/contributions,2877 This contrib should eventually add another "manufacturers" style filter to your site - I am using it on my own store to add more functionality - we sell jewellery, and I already use "manufacturers" to distinguish between different precious metals (gold, silver, platinum etc.), and want to have another set to sort by designer of each type of jewellery, as many ranges use different metals within the range, and many metals have more than one designer - I think this could be used in many situations such as a bookstore could be sorted by author and publisher, or a computer store could have manufacturer and operating system, a clothes store could have materials and label etc. This is being used outside of the category tree, as both metals and designers combine within each category within my site and I am trying to avoid thousands of sub categories, as well as the fact that customers shop in many different ways - some by metal (manufacturer), some by designer, and some by type (i.e. Celtic Pendants) which is covered in my catagories array. Not being a great php coder, I have only implemented this to the admin side of the store so far, and am stumped on the catalog side - I have tried for many an hour, but am hoping that by posting this as a partial contrib I can enlist the help of other developers who may also have a use for this kind of filtering! If and when I manage to get it working, I will update with the full package, but I am sure the code can be cleaned up a bit and that the catalog functionality should be completed. As with all contribs, please ensure you back up completely before doing any changes. This is a beta contrib, and I take no responsibility whatsoever if it breaks your store!! Beware!

Hi - to get Yasu working on top level domain (i.e. without /catalog directory), use this on your .htaccess: RewriteEngine on RewriteBase / RewriteRule admin - [L] RewriteRule ^$ /index.php [R=301,L] RewriteRule ^/$ /index.php [R=301,L] RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !-d RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !^/$ Hope that helps, but I also have a question of my own. With YASU installed, I cannot get gzip to work at all. My site is incredibly slow, but indexed well in the search engines. I would like the best of both worlds, with SEF urls working, but also a quick site with gzip working. Anybody have any workarounds for this? Am I being increibly dumb and is this fairly simple, or if it hasn't been done yet anybody have a clue how it could be done? At the minute I have left the rewrite engine on, but removed the bit in includes/functions/html_output which makes the links search engine friendly. This makes the links the search engines already have still work (i.e. www.niknakgroup.com/Gold+Pendants), but wont let them find anymore links of this style.....ok for the minute as it still lets me use gzip, but not ideal....anybody help?

Hiya, am using the vjc link exchange contribution ( http://www.oscommerce.com/community/contributions,1256 ) - works great and easy to use, but just wondering if anybody has any idea how to sort the links so that the most recent show at the top or at least on the first page - i only have 36 so far and already it is a nightmare keeping track of who is where and finding newly submitted links so i can approve them. Just an idea also, but anybody else have any idea how to incorporate the emails from this contrib so that they use the html email setup available on other contribs for order update etc.... So many ideas, so little knowledge of php!!

Hello! Great mod, just wondering if anybody has succesfully implemeneted this into any of the IPN contributions (I use PayPal IPN) as if customer selects that payment method, the confirmation email is sent as plain text.....:( If you have, would you be kind enough to share, if nobody has, I will get my brain working to see if it can be done....:)

completely unrelated to the last couple of posts, but i have tried every other part of this forum for an answer, and i get the feeling i will find the answer in here if anywhere - if i turn gzip compression on in admin, my site displays a completly blank page - no error message, no anything. I am pretty sure this is a conflict with sts - anybody else had this problem, and if so, anybody else find a solution? My page load times are really bad, i need gzip to work and ran out of ideas about a month ago! Any help appreciated. :D

There is a nochex instant payment notification mod - search of rit in contributions and add it to your site - it will make this problem go away! :rolleyes:

OK. First thing you need to do is to set up a master password do that you can go into your customers accounts through your own website and see what is in their shopping basket. You can also process the order by choosing another offline payment method and writing paid by PayPal into the notes section. This doesn't solve the PayPal problem, but at least you know what the order is. The master password contrib is at http://www.oscommerce.com/community/contributions,2180 You can also try amending you code in the paypal.php code so that all of the order details are sent through paypal and therefore come out on your paypal receipt. The code you need is: You may also want to consider using PayPal IPN contrib - can be a bit buggy, but read the forum thread on it and you should be OK - search contribs and forums for PayPal IPN.

Thanks Didier, did the trick nicely, just by adjusting the first line like this: Working like a charm...... :D

OK, pretty nifty contrib, works great from customers point of view, but buggers up my admin - I cant send any emails to customers about their orders - when I try, I get a message saying Obviously the systme has no idea what I am asking it to do.....I have gone back over the install readme a number of times, and nowhere is this function defined......what have I missed?? P.S. The line in question is this:

Hi, not sure if this is the same problem; my product.info pages are all showing the correct titles and meta tags, but my index and category pages are not, they are showing "UK jewellery". This really confuses me, as the header tags controller script is still in my index.php script, and the default title in this is a much longer title - "UK jewellery" is a phrase that is being picked up, but I dont know where from! Any ideas on which part of the yasu contrib is overwriting the header tags controller?? My index.php script looks like this: (first section only) btw, my index.php page is renamed as silvergold.php using .htaccess - this is another way of attacking the seo process, and works absolutely fine - this wouldn't affect the header tags would it??

Hi, nice for me to be able to answer some questions rather than be constantly asking them, and I dont even know if anybody has asked these yet! :) I am currently optimising my store for the search engines, and a couple of points were made in relation to the coolMenu contrib we have running, and I think I have solved them both: 1st problem - Some search engines will only read so many characters of the source of your page before moving on to the next page; as we have so many categories running, the coolMenu JavaScript, although ignored by the engines, used up a great big chunk of this quota, and possible meant tha the actual content of my pages was not being indexed or assessed by the engines.... 1st solution - instead of having <?php require(DIR_WS_INCLUDES . 'coolmenu.php'); ?> right after the <body> tag in each of my files in the catalog folder, I just put it once into the footer folder, as the very last statement. Not only does this put all the JavaScript at the bottom of the page, it also means that the menu loads at the same time as the rest of the page, rather than hovering over a blank screen while the page loads as it used to.....there must be a reason why this sint recommended, but surely it makes for a much quicker install to use this method anyway??? any ideas? 2nd problem - Search engines cannot read JavScript, so ignore it. This means that Search engines were completely unable to drill down into my products within the site. I do have the allprods contrib installed, but it doesnt seem to ahve the desired effects..... 2nd solution - I modified the includes/boxes/categories.php file to display horizontally by removing the <br> command. I then placed the call to categories.php into my footer file (just above the call to coolmenu.php). Result? The categories still have basic html links to them which the search engines can follow. I only did this two days ago, and I have had three engines busily beavering away in my site constantly since - before they stayed a maximum of 20 minutes, so one can only presume the desired result has been acheived... I'll let you know if it helps my rankings any! Just thought some people might like to know - if you didn't, tough, you've already read the post so you know anyway!! :D

I would ignore the products_model thingy - we have uploaded over 6000 products, had that message every time, the site has been active for nearly a year now, and not once has anybody felt the need to say"hey we have no product number - whats going on???" . Not sure what it is, what it does, but it obviously aint that important! BTW every product in our store has a unique 6 digit code, that aint the product_number, 'cos that uploads and works fine..... Never come across the price problem, sorry

Hi sdalgleidh - flying monkey completed the mod for me and sent it over, but said it is not for general release yet; I haven't had a chance to install or test it yet, but if I do and it works would you like a copy of the beta code? Get in touch, or alternatively I'm sure flying monkey will be posting the code here shortly....

Help help help help!!!! I installed the contrib, worked absolutely great (or appeared to) except nothing was being added to the wishlist, was being chucked into normal shopping basket. Was looking at application top trying to figure out why it wasnt going into the wishlist, refreshed my browser window to check something and got this message - The only place I can find 'order by products name'is in wishlist.php - but the scripting looks fine and nobody else appears to have had this problem - what am I doing wrong?? FWIW I have the STS template working too - that wouldn't be interfering would it??

Hi first off, what a great contrib - took all of 5 mins to install and run for the first time. Small question, just because I am the lazy bloke who looks for a shortcut in everything I do.....we are a UK store who has been given permission to list on Froogle as we offer sales in $US and ship to the US, but when prices are pulled from the site they are in ?GBP - is there a way to amend the froogle.php script to multiply the ?GBP by the figure I have set in my admin controls? I can work around it by a simple 2 minute edit in Excel and then ftp it off to froogle, but just wondering if it could be done, then I can leave the froogle upload to itself to work happily away automatically without any interference from me..... B)

I had similar problems - any infobox leaves a slight gap at the top where the box header is supposed to go, so any algorithm you use for category count is going to be slightly hit and miss as the actual coolmenu does not have any header - I changed the algorithm to an exact pixel height and adjusted manually - it works easier once you have completed your categories, but can be a bit of a pain while you are building the database. Also look out for the people who have their text size set to different settings in IE (try adjusting them yourself from the IE menu under View>Text Size> to see the effect different browser settings can have on your layout. I know this isnt a php solution to the problem, but it works (or did for me anyway!) - hope it helps.

Am no wizz with these things, but am guessing that whilst working on your files you are saving them as .csv and then saving as tab delimited at the last save before upload. Either way, best to avoid commas and the & sign in your category description - try missing the comma (very few people notice it is gramatically incorrect) and replacing "&" with "+" - if you are using excel this is dead easy, just highlight your category columm (all of it), press "Ctrl" and "F", type in ",", hit find. Then click replace, leave it empty and hit replace all. This delets all the commas. Do the same again, but find "&" and replace with "+" - hit replace all again. Should take about 30 seconds and should fix the problems for you. If it doesn't, scream back at me on the board and I'll scratch my head and ponder it some more for you..... :blink:

:D These are quotes from quite a few pages back - but I dont quite understand how to solve the problem::::: So, you can sort out the stylesheet problem when you have a template system in place. HOW????? I'm probably being thick, but have tried every variation I can think of and am still stumped. Hopefully one of you lovely people can point out the error of my ways as at the minute I have a lovely big panel saying coolmenu, but no menu....

Hi VJ Just to let you know, have tried your add on extensively, and am happy to report that in a beta site with 3000 products, running 42 different attributes (took a little while to set up!!), with up to 25 active on any given product, this works flawlessly!! Just need to remind the peeps using it that obviously the database output is quite a bit heavier - I had to cut all of my files down to 80 products at a time to get them uploaded. As you have sussed this one so completely, could I pick your brains, as mine are a bit muddled from looking at computer scripting that I dont really understand that well! I have added the X-Sell mod, is there a simple way of adding this into the easypopulate function as well? would be another massive timesaver, and I am certain there must be other peeps out there who would appreciate this too. Once again though, amazing add on to the excellent easypopulate contribution, cannot thank you enough! :D :D :D :D