Quick Updates plugin [support]

[Louis]

Quick answer: Yes.

[kbalona]

Thanks

[Gamer]

I don't know if this has been done or not. I spent a while looking for a solution.


I need Quick Updates to work with Group Pricing per item. Any ideas?

[hitch]

Hi everyone,

Hoping someone can point me in the right direction. I have an installation of quick updates that seems to run buggy on my server (odd things not updating and messages of updating products not altered).

When i run exactly the same files locally with the same database i get none of the bugs or odditites, I have looked at lots of things and think it has to be something specific to the hosting environment. Has anyone else had similar issues or could tell me where to start?

thanks :-)

[francocauter]

I have a bad feeling. A dought came to my mind after understanding, studying for nearly a year now Zen Cart.... have I wasted all this time in to putting all my efforts and believes in Zen Cart?
I have changed 4 providers, I now have my Virtual Private Server but I am always getting the dreaded words from the FF browser "waiting for..." and it waits 10-15-20secs to open the page.
Has anyone the same problem?
Someone said is to do with the external links, ... and I have taken them all the ones I could think of,off.
Any comments anyone?
This is my live site: www.livemk.co.uk on a shared account so when the server is busy is understadebly slow but, should the browser wait for this site to load?
thanks in advance

[paulm]

Hi everyone,

Hoping someone can point me in the right direction. I have an installation of quick updates that seems to run buggy on my server (odd things not updating and messages of updating products not altered).

When i run exactly the same files locally with the same database i get none of the bugs or odditites, I have looked at lots of things and think it has to be something specific to the hosting environment. Has anyone else had similar issues or could tell me where to start?

thanks :-)

Hi Hitch,

-with "odd things" you mean it's totally random? Or is it always related to prices or descriptions or ...?

-Is it possible to reproduce the problem with just one (or a couple) of product(s)?

Every time when you click the Update button Quick updates sends two POST arrays: quick_updates_new (contains the form input values the admin may update) and quick_updates_old (from hidden form inputs that hold the original values) and compares their values to determine if anything needs to be updated or not. If you know how, you can compare those arrays to see if their values are correct.


edit:
@francocauter: you have posted your question in the wrong place, this thread is about quick updates only.

[hitch]

Thanks for the reply and helping us out with this cool mod!

not completely random. say i update 8 product qty's only. 5 will update correctly, on the 6th product another (unchanged and unrelated) field will be updated and the qty changes below that are not saved. The message received at the top also describes what it actually does not what was entered. With no or few product updates it does a similar thing, updating the random unchanged field only.

Like i say it operated fines on my local environment with the same files/db. It's happening on multiple sites on my hosting. I've tried both the latest stable 2.04 and your latest beta and both have the same/similar result. i should also say it has been operating perfectly on my server for the longest time then the bug started which made me wonder what server things could cause it.

I'll check the arrays, but i haven't been bugging with the code or anything to change it.

:-)

[paulm]

Hi Hitch,

that sounds really scary

Somehow the form data might be scrambled starting at some point (the 6th product), or the quick_updates_new and/or quick_updates_old POST arrays are cut off somehow.

Maybe the post_max_size is very low one that server? (you can check it in your admin at admin/server_info.php). Or your products data consumes a lot of memory memory? The post_max_size usually is 8mb and it's very unlikely that the data of only a couple of your products exceed that value. On the other hand any explanation that I can think of now seems very unlikely

If the post_max_size is exceeded a php error should be shown or logged. And I never tried it, but I think it would be a fatal error which halts the script (and no products at all would be updated in that case).

But this does make me think, even if post_max_size appears not to be related in this case, it's probably wise to add some kind of checksum which is verified before the database is updated.