Salemaker problems

[cheddars]

Yesterday I setup a sale in salemaker.
I selected the start and end dates using spiffycalendar - date is shown in format dd/mm/Y. When I go to the summary screen the dates format has changed to mm/dd/Y and as a result the salemaker module considers the sale has finished ie instead of 1st Sept it translates as 9th January.

Even when the sale has been marked as live there are problems in the shop. In some cases products show the discounted cost but the shopping cart only shows the full cost. In other products the shopping cart correctly shoes the discounted cost.

I am using the current Zencart version 1.39h. What am I doing wrong please?

[Ajeh]

SaleMaker is designed to be setup with dates as: mm/dd/Y

[cheddars]

Thanks for your reply ajeh.
I actually select the date from the popup calendar. It is then shown as 01/09/2011, for example. When I press the update button the date is shown as 09/01/2011 on the summary screen and the sale status is red [disabled].

[Ajeh]

What setting do you have, on the server, in the file:

/your_admin_dir/includes/languages/english.php

Line #29 : define('DATE_FORMAT_SPIFFYCAL', 'MM/dd/yyyy'); //Use only 'dd', 'MM' and 'yyyy' here in any order

[Ajeh]

Actually, if you could check all of these:

/your_admin_dir/includes/languages/english.php

Line #24 : define('DATE_FORMAT_SHORT', '%m/%d/%Y'); // this is used for strftime()

Line #25 : define('DATE_FORMAT_LONG', '%A %d %B, %Y'); // this is used for strftime()

Line #26 : define('DATE_FORMAT', 'm/d/Y'); // this is used for date()

Line #28 : define('DATE_TIME_FORMAT', DATE_FORMAT_SHORT . ' %H:%M:%S');

Line #29 : define('DATE_FORMAT_SPIFFYCAL', 'MM/dd/yyyy'); //Use only 'dd', 'MM' and 'yyyy' here in any order

[cheddars]

The english.php settings in admin are:

setlocale(LC_TIME, 'en_US.ISO_8859-1');
define('DATE_FORMAT_SHORT', '%d/%m/%Y'); // this is used for strftime()
define('DATE_FORMAT_LONG', '%A %d %B, %Y'); // this is used for strftime()
define('DATE_FORMAT', 'd/m/Y'); // this is used for date()
define('PHP_DATE_TIME_FORMAT', 'd/m/Y H:i:s'); // this is used for date()
define('DATE_TIME_FORMAT', DATE_FORMAT_SHORT . ' %H:%M:%S');
define('DATE_FORMAT_SPIFFYCAL', 'dd/MM/yyyy'); //Use only 'dd', 'MM' and 'yyyy' here in any order

[Ajeh]

Try resetting those to the defaults and use the m/d/Y format ...

[Ajeh]

Make sure that you have on the Attributes set ...

Apply Discounts Used
by Product Special/Sale: YES

Include in Base Price
When Priced by Attributes: YES

and that the Master Categories ID is set to the Category that is on Sale ...

[cheddars]

It looks as if the problem was caused by 'priced by attributes' tag and my misunderstanding of it as described in the following thread -
http://www.zen-cart.com/forum/showthread.php?t=138464

I need to change these products to 'not' priced by attributes.
Thanks guys for all your help

[Ajeh]

Thanks for the update that all is working correctly for you now ...