Back In Stock Notifications

[lankeeyankee]

Hi Conor,

Thanks for this great mod, like your other ones it is very well written!!

I came across this little formatting error when & quot ; (I can't do it in the forum without spaces or it will be converted to ") or & amp ; are used in the product title. It displays like this:

Simply enter your details below and we will send you an e-mail when “Tycoon Hammered Cowbell, 3 1/4" Silver”

I have to have the html character code because the " and & will get stripped from the page title bar in the browser plus Google Base uses XML files and " and & are not valid XML.

How would I go about changing this so that the text will convert the html character code into " and &?

Thanks!!

Matt

[conor]

Hi Matt,

I have to have the html character code because the " and & will get stripped from the page title bar in the browser

The double quote gets stripped from the title bar here, but the ampersand doesn't, it is correctly converted to

&

.

plus Google Base uses XML files and " and & are not valid XML.

I'm afraid that's a problem with the Google Base code then.. it should convert these characters correctly.

How would I go about changing this so that the text will convert the html character code into " and &?

You can't. What you should do is use the quote character and ampersand character in the product's title change the output code for the title tag and Google Base to properly convert/quote the characters.

I can't comment on any Google functionality as I don't know about it but I found the line that gets rid of the quote in the title in includes/modules/meta_tags:

define('META_TAG_TITLE', str_replace('"','',$meta_products_name . $meta_products_price . PRIMARY_SECTION . TITLE . TERTIARY_SECTION . NAVBAR_TITLE)); 

Changing

str_replace('"',''

to

str_replace('"','"'

might work.

By the way, to quote HTML entities, just use the "Code" button on this forum.

That should all be enough to get things done the right way!

All the best...

Conor
Ceon

[karapus]

Hello Everybody,

I am having problems installing Back In Stock Notifications. to be more specific adding the SQL patch. I did that by inserting the mysql file, I did that by inserting the plain text and I tried with my phpMyAdmin as well. Nothing worked.

I am using Zen Cart 1.3.8a, MySQL5.0.


If I do the patching with zen cart I am getting these messages:

11 statements processed.
Error ERROR: Cannot insert configuration_key "BACK_IN_STOCK_NOTIFICATION_ENABLED" because it already exists
Error ERROR: Cannot insert configuration_key "" because it already exists
Error ERROR: Cannot create table back_in_stock_notification_subscriptions because it already exists
Warning Note: 3 statements ignored. See "upgrade_exceptions" table for additional details.


At admin area in configuration menu I can see "Back in stock Notifications" option and it works, but there is no Catalog > Back In Stock Notifications Menu.

The module seems to be working partly. I can send Notification via e-mail but when I put my item back in stock there is no notification for back in stock..


please..... if anyone knows... please HELP...

Thank you in advance...

[karapus]

Hello Everybody,

I am having problems installing Back In Stock Notifications. to be more specific adding the SQL patch. I did that by inserting the mysql file, I did that by inserting the plain text and I tried with my phpMyAdmin as well. Nothing worked.

I am using Zen Cart 1.3.8a, MySQL5.0.


If I do the patching with zen cart I am getting these messages:

11 statements processed.
Error ERROR: Cannot insert configuration_key "BACK_IN_STOCK_NOTIFICATION_ENABLED" because it already exists
Error ERROR: Cannot insert configuration_key "" because it already exists
Error ERROR: Cannot create table back_in_stock_notification_subscriptions because it already exists
Warning Note: 3 statements ignored. See "upgrade_exceptions" table for additional details.


At admin area in configuration menu I can see "Back in stock Notifications" option and it works, but there is no Catalog > Back In Stock Notifications Menu.

The module seems to be working partly. I can send Notification via e-mail but when I put my item back in stock there is no notification for back in stock..


please..... if anyone knows... please HELP...

Thank you in advance...

ok, do not reply to my post yet...

there was missing menu because I did not change admin folder's name... stupid me...

[conor]

Hi,

ok, do not reply to my post yet...

there was missing menu because I did not change admin folder's name... stupid me...

Glad you got it sorted and an easy mistake to make. I may try to stress the fact that the admin folder's name is often changed in the next release as everyone's changing its name these days for Zen Cart's suggested security by obscurity! :)

All the best...

Conor
ceon

[phiblack]

Hello,

I am trying to send out back in stock notifications and it comes up with an error basically stating it cannot send to customer x.
When I list all subscriptions I can see the products and the one that customer x wants to know about but it appears they didn't enter their email address - so that field is blank.

How can I remove this entry so that the other 100 odd notifications can go out?

Phil
www.colourpatch.com.au

[phiblack]

Found the answer.
Post this into the SQL functions area.
The XXX is the product ID for the item you want to remove the listing for.

delete from back_in_stock_notification_subscriptions where product_id = XXX;

[shinypenguin]

Noticed a small bug in 3.2.0 that gives users a broken link to the product page from their subscriptions list under "My Account"

To fix, just need to edit the includes/templates/template_default/templates/tpl_account_back_in_stock_notifications_default.php file:

Line 166: change from:

$product_page = zen_get_info_page($subscribed_notification_lists[$i]['id']); 

to:

$product_page = zen_get_info_page($subscribed_notification_lists[$i]['product_id']); 

... and line 169 change from:

'products_id=' . $subscribed_notification_lists[$i]['id'], $request_type); 

to:

'products_id=' . $subscribed_notification_lists[$i]['product_id'], $request_type); 

[Limitless]

Just noticed I posted the below in the OLD BISN thread.

Hoping someone has an idea here.


Not sure what has changed now, but my 'back in stock notification' emails are missing my domain name in the link that gets sent out?!!?!


Any one run into this before I start digging around?