Two Questions...

[ann0314]

I wasn't sure where to put these, so I am hoping its ok to put them here.

First off, is there a way to make it so a customer can use an "username" instead of their real name for customer reviews? I have quite a few people that are saying they went to leave reviews but decided against it because it shows their full real name when they go to leave the review. Is there any way of making it so a username or just initials show up like on some other sites for those that want to keep their information private? As of now I went in and changed one customers First and Last name to a username for them to leave a review but I knew that person and had their ok...obviously I cant do that with everyone that signs up LOL

Secondly, I downloaded version 1.3.0 not realizing there was a 1.3.1...I JUST got the store up and running perfect and then realized so I am a bit nervous/hesitant to upgrade. Anyone know how difficult it is to upgrade it and how much stuff I will need to redo? In the zip for 1.3.1 it said there was a file with info on what you needed to do exactly to upgrade from 1.3.0 but the file was missing from the zip sadly so I am clueless and don't want to have the store down for any long length of time Especially when its brand new and thus far seems to be working fine.

Thanks for any ideas or thoughts in advance :O)

HUGS!!

ann :)

[Absolute]

The review this is fairly easy to fix. There are two files you need to edit.

The first is the main one. Back up the following file before making ANY alterations.

includes/modules/pages/product_reviews_write/header.php

If you are only interested in initial, then go to line 80, and replace this line

$sql = $db->bindVars($sql, ':customersName', $customer->fields['customers_firstname'] . ' ' . $customer->fields['customers_lastname'], 'string');

with this one

$sql = $db->bindVars($sql, ':customersName', substr($customer->fields['customers_firstname'], 0, 1) . '.' . substr($customer->fields['customers_lastname'], 0, 1) . '.', 'string');

This will change the way it is recorded in the database.

The next file you need to edit is how the name is displayed on the Write a Review page. This can be found at

includes/templates/YOUR ACTIVE TEMPLATE/templates/tpl_product_reviews_write_default.php

Goto line 41 na dreplace

zen_output_string_protected($customer->fields['customers_firstname'] . ' ' . $customer->fields['customers_lastname'])

with this

zen_output_string_protected(substr($customer->fields['customers_firstname'], 0, 1) . '.' . substr($customer->fields['customers_lastname'], 0, 1) . '.')

Hope this helps

Absolute

[bunyip]

It's important that you do the upgrade to 1.3.0.1, as there were a number of bug fixes in that release. You can download a zip with just the changed files, and if you've used template overrides correctly you shouldn't have any problems.

[ann0314]

Well I just didn't understand how all that works or what "possibly" could happen...

I just ran into one of the bugs though...I changed the code suggested above and upon doing so it disabled my downloads which it the same thing that happened when I tried to do the over-ride for the Title of the page and I know that was something that 1.3.1 fixes or I hope so....but I am so worried Ill lose data or do it wrong that I am hesitant LOL. I have used the over-rides for 99% of the changes although a couple I couldn't do it that way for obvious reasons....

And as I said the instructions for the upgrade are missing from that zip I got which worries me even more :O(

HUGS!!

ann :O)