Testimonial Manager Support Thread

Hi CountryCharm,

Thank you for taking over this project. I am in the middle of adding a bunch of old testimonials from 2003-2011 and I don't have dates for them. I don't want them to all have today's date (the default if you leave "date" blank)... I was wondering if you could walk me through hacking things to have functionality like one of these ideas:

idea 1) When adding testimonials through the Admin interface, don't insert today's date if "date" is left blank, just have it leave that field empty so that nothing shows up.

idea 2) having some php that says basically, if date = "specific date" (which I'd set to something like january 1, 2000, 01:00:00--really generic and not likely to ever get used by chance) then echo "(sometime between 2003-2011)"

idea 3) combined with idea 1, if there is no date info in the date field, then have it display "(sometime between 2003-2011)"

Would any of these be possible? What file(s) would I edit? Because it's going to look a little ridiculous to have all of the old testimonials set to today's date. I tried clearing out that field in the database through PHPmyAdmin, but it wouldn't let me, it refilled it with a date. :(

Thanks in advance if you can help me with the above, or if you have any other ideas on how to hide the date for these old testimonials that I'm adding.

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Originally Posted by WebKat

Hi CountryCharm,

Thank you for taking over this project. I am in the middle of adding a bunch of old testimonials from 2003-2011 and I don't have dates for them. I don't want them to all have today's date (the default if you leave "date" blank)... I was wondering if you could walk me through hacking things to have functionality like one of these ideas:

idea 1) When adding testimonials through the Admin interface, don't insert today's date if "date" is left blank, just have it leave that field empty so that nothing shows up.

idea 2) having some php that says basically, if date = "specific date" (which I'd set to something like january 1, 2000, 01:00:00--really generic and not likely to ever get used by chance) then echo "(sometime between 2003-2011)"

idea 3) combined with idea 1, if there is no date info in the date field, then have it display "(sometime between 2003-2011)"

Would any of these be possible? What file(s) would I edit? Because it's going to look a little ridiculous to have all of the old testimonials set to today's date. I tried clearing out that field in the database through PHPmyAdmin, but it wouldn't let me, it refilled it with a date. :(

Thanks in advance if you can help me with the above, or if you have any other ideas on how to hide the date for these old testimonials that I'm adding.

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I tried clearing out that field in the database through PHPmyAdmin, but it wouldn't let me, it refilled it with a date. :(

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The MOD uses the current date when adding testimonials. If you want to use older dates you'd have to use phpmyadmin and work directly with the database table for the testimonials and edit the date field.

Countrycharm thank you for the updated version.
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Originally Posted by countrycharm

The MOD uses the current date when adding testimonials. If you want to use older dates you'd have to use phpmyadmin and work directly with the database table for the testimonials and edit the date field.

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No, you don't understand. I don't HAVE dates for these testimonials. I don't have an "older date" to use. I want to be able to have the date be empty and not show up for testimonials that have no date.

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Originally Posted by WebKat

No, you don't understand. I don't HAVE dates for these testimonials. I don't have an "older date" to use. I want to be able to have the date be empty and not show up for testimonials that have no date.

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I know what you are talking about, and It is probably possible but I don't have time to look into it yet. When time permits I will.

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Originally Posted by WebKat

No, you don't understand. I don't HAVE dates for these testimonials. I don't have an "older date" to use. I want to be able to have the date be empty and not show up for testimonials that have no date.

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Originally Posted by countrycharm

I know what you are talking about, and It is probably possible but I don't have time to look into it yet. When time permits I will.

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and WebKat in the meantime, you will have to edit the DB and include a date in order to use this add-on..

OR

if it's a showstopper item and you need it IMMEDIATELY, you can consider investing in paying a developer to make this change for you..

For now I just added some text saying "such and such a date really means '2003-20011'" that shows up underneath the date. It's a good enough solution for a little while, though I don't want to leave it like that indefinitely.

Thanks for your help.

Hello! I try to instal the SQL patch and i get this error

WARNING: An Error occurred, please refresh the page and try again.

i installed the version before this one but i deleted it a while ago. Now that it is compatible i thought i would install it again. I don't know what to do. i deleted everything from the last time i installed. please help! thank you!

Now when i go to my store catalog it also says this
WARNING: An Error occurred, please refresh the page and try again.
:( I'm freaking out.

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Originally Posted by Serg

Hello! I try to instal the SQL patch and i get this error

WARNING: An Error occurred, please refresh the page and try again.

i installed the version before this one but i deleted it a while ago. Now that it is compatible i thought i would install it again. I don't know what to do. i deleted everything from the last time i installed. please help! thank you!

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What version of zen cart are you running? If you are running zen cart 1.5.0 did you use the 1.3.x_Upgrade patch or did you re-run the new.sql patch? You didn't give enough information.