Contest System [support thread]

[wmorris]

I have a question,,, can you have more than 1 contests like for an example:

I am planning on doing 2nd Prize is a gift cert/coupon and the 1st prize will be an item. Will this plugin do that?

[skipwater]

can you have more than 1 contest

No there is only a one prize option.

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[tod4life]

hi i just installed the mod and i have no errors went in and changed the start and end date of the contest and the sidebox still shows contest ended check back soon can someone please help[ me

[dsimon]

HI

Can someone let me know where I might see this mod running?

Thanks

Dave

[solo_400]

HI

Can someone let me know where I might see this mod running?

Thanks

Dave

Good question , I would like to see a live example too please .

[skipwater]

Google is your friend search on "enter our contest zen-cart" and you will find some live contests running.

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[sash]

Just a quick reply to say i installed this plugin and it's great, I tend to stay away from plugins that involve "core file overwrites) normally get someone else to do them, This one is just a simple upload and it's all there,

Running my first comp now, :)

Cheers SkipWater...

[skipwater]

Thank You for the kind words.

Skip

[jund]

Skip,

This is NOT a flame. It is a heads up regarding a problem on one of my sites: www.american-savage.com
ZENCART Version 1.5
PHP Version 5.2.17
MySQL Version 5.5.29
Server OS Linux 2.6.32 on Apache
Host justhost.com

Three or four months ago I installed the contest and included an image and a product to be given away as a prize. It was tested and it worked great. It is a good add-on for sure.

The store owner decided not to run the contest; however, so I turned off the prize product and the contest. Neither were visible to any customers.

A couple of weeks ago, PayPal sent me a purchase notification, so I went to the admin area and sure enough, someone from Chile (victor gonzalez) had purchased the prize using "Freecharger" for the payment. I went to the Payment Options, and Freecharger was in fact turned on. I went to PayPal, and everything was there except for the shipping... Mr. Gonzalez provided me no shipping information.

How was it possible for anyone to even find the item, much less purchase it? Is there perhaps a flaw in the code allowing someone to "find" the prize and make a purchase? Or, what other possibility is there.

I have turned off Freecharger, and deleted the prize.

Thank you,

jund (John Underwood)

[skipwater]

Skip,
A couple of weeks ago, PayPal sent me a purchase notification, so I went to the admin area and sure enough, someone from Chile (victor gonzalez) had purchased the prize using "Freecharger" for the payment. I went to the Payment Options, and Freecharger was in fact turned on. I went to PayPal, and everything was there except for the shipping... Mr. Gonzalez provided me no shipping information.

How was it possible for anyone to even find the item, much less purchase it? Is there perhaps a flaw in the code allowing someone to "find" the prize and make a purchase? Or, what other possibility is there.

I have turned off Freecharger, and deleted the prize.

Thank you,

jund (John Underwood)

John

Thanks for the heads up.
I have looked and did some testing and can not at this time see how this could be done from the contest mod.
The mod only displays the product information based on id# and has no add to cart links.
Uses same error checking as zc if product # not found/disabled.

Contest mod code is not capable of passing a product to the cart.

Not knowing how paypal could accept a transaction like his to begin with. I am at a loss.

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