Order Steps (tableless) support thread

[droland]

I added this mod yesterday and like it very much.

The Order Steps pages load much slower than the rest of the website. Even slower than the other SSL pages.

Zen 1.3.6 and Order Steps 1.1 to match.

Could not find any posts about it.

Anyone Know what the deal is?

[clydejones]

I added this mod yesterday and like it very much.

The Order Steps pages load much slower than the rest of the website. Even slower than the other SSL pages.

Zen 1.3.6 and Order Steps 1.1 to match.

Could not find any posts about it.

Anyone Know what the deal is?

Again as stated elsewhere in this thread, This mod only sits at the top of each checkout page and does not affect how those pages function in any way nor should it affect the loading of the page(s) to any significant degree.

You're two Zen Cart versions behind; maybe upgrading to 1.3.8 might help.

[droland]

Clyde, Need to wait a little while on the upgrade.
Have other sites we test on.
1.8 does not play well with our heavy attributes and wholesale/dual pricing add-on and quantity discounts combination. Waiting on 2.0 to upgrade.

We installed the Order Steps on 2 websites. Only one is slow loading those pages.

In looking for differences, the website with PHP 5 and SQL 5 works great.

The one with PHP 4 and SQL 4 loads the Order Steps pages slowly.

[clydejones]

Clyde, Need to wait a little while on the upgrade.
Have other sites we test on.
1.8 does not play well with our heavy attributes and wholesale/dual pricing add-on and quantity discounts combination. Waiting on 2.0 to upgrade.

We installed the Order Steps on 2 websites. Only one is slow loading those pages.

In looking for differences, the website with PHP 5 and SQL 5 works great.

The one with PHP 4 and SQL 4 loads the Order Steps pages slowly.

The drop in portion of the mod at the top of each page only uses calls to the appropriate stylesheet in order to display. The mod makes no calls to the database and no calls to any of the functionality of the checkout pages.
It uses two images; a 1x1 transparent gif and the 24x24 arrow gif.

You may have a long wait before upgrading since the next ZC version coming out will be 1.4.0

[droland]

Clyde, I understand what you are saying.
It should not affect page loads.

Fact is, it did slow those pages down when the mod was added on one of the website.

I'll try to figure out what is up.

Thanks for your replies.

[droland]

After looking at the page load many times, the Order Steps pages are possibly not any slower than the other SSL pages.

It may just seem that way as the progress arrow is the last thing to load on the page. And of course at this time, that is what I have been focusing on.

Great mod. Many Thanks.

Dan

[clydejones]

An updated version of Order Steps (tableless) which provides better accessibility for those who use assistive devices or text-only browsers, is now available in the downloads section.