Compare multiple products - support thread

[damiantaylor]

Thanks for this fantasic mod!
I have it working except for the jQuery side.
When I check a compare box, the javascript fires (I have tested this with an alert) but the product image doesn't appear in the compare box at the top of the screen. The 'compare' button doesn't show at the top of the screen either.
However, if I refresh the page, the products do appear in the box so something behind the scenes is working.

Has anybody any ideas what is going wrong?

[damiantaylor]

Ok, I seem to have this working.
the problem is in the javascript file jscript_products_compare.js.

If I change from this...

  function compareNew(obj, action) {
    $('#compareProducts').load('ajax_compare.php', {'compare_id': obj, 'action': action});
  }

....to this.....

  function compareNew(obj, action) {
    $('#compareProducts').load('AJAX_servers/AJAX_compare_server.php', {'compare_id': obj, 'action': action},
							   function(data) {  $("#compareProducts").html(data);  }
							   );
  }

It works!
Has anybody else had this not work or is it just me?

[Wilkesy]

hi,

Quite frustratingly i have been spending hours today trying to get this working. The ajax side of it wasnt working at all. Then, i had a moment of inspiration! I use the CEON URL re-write tool. I needed to exclude this file from being re-written and off we went! works perfectly!

Just something to keep in mind for others!

[novastar]

I have this installed on my local host and when ever I try to compare two or more products the resulting page is one that says there are no products to compare, even though I'm certain that I checked the boxes before clicking compare. any help?

[simon1066]

I have this installed on my local host and when ever I try to compare two or more products the resulting page is one that says there are no products to compare, even though I'm certain that I checked the boxes before clicking compare. any help?

Just thought I'd ask whether anyone knows the reason for the above. I suspect it might be related to other mods I have installed. I've installed and reinstalled this mod but can't for the life of me see where the problem is.

[simon1066]

I have this installed on my local host and when ever I try to compare two or more products the resulting page is one that says there are no products to compare, even though I'm certain that I checked the boxes before clicking compare. any help?

Just thought - it might be because I'm running v1.50, although the original source of this query - novastar - would have been on an earlier version

[novastar]

Just thought - it might be because I'm running v1.50, although the original source of this query - novastar - would have been on an earlier version

Yeah I'm using 1.3.9h, I installed a fresh copy of zen cart on my localhost to test this so this was the first and only mod I installed and it still didn't work. I saw that another version had been installed so I installed that on my live sight but it still has the same issue. I don't want to oversimplify a problem because I'm not an expert but it seems like a small fix, may be a bug somewhere. Any help appreciated.

[novastar]

I have this installed on my local host and when ever I try to compare two or more products the resulting page is one that says there are no products to compare, even though I'm certain that I checked the boxes before clicking compare. any help?

Wrong quote, this is the issue I was talking about, sorry.