Sale Ending/Special Ending Support thread

[swguy]

Version 1.1 of Sale Ending/Special ending has just been posted with instructions on how to make the sale ending date the actual date which is displayed (instead of 1 day earlier).

[maac2]

Works great, thank you for the update!

[ddandlamber]

How can I change the date displayed format 21 April, 2011, to April 21, 2011 or 4/21/11?

[ddandlamber]

Never mind. Of course I figured it out right after I posted the question. Here's how I changed it:

I modified \includes\functions\extra_functions\sale_special_ending.php

and changed the two instances of


if ($longdate) {
$date_str = zen_date_long($enddate);
} else {
$date_str = zen_date_short($enddate);

to


if ($shortdate) {
$date_str = zen_date_long($enddate);
} else {
$date_str = zen_date_short($enddate);

I just changed the word longdate to shortdate.

Amber

[swguy]

A better fix would be to modify the default value of the formal parameter $longdate in sale_special_ending() to false.

function sale_special_ending($id, $longdate = false, $one_day_back = false)

includes/functions/extra_functions/sale_special_ending.php.

[swguy]

Sale Ending/Special Ending is now Zen Cart 1.5.0 compatible. No other functional changes were made in version 1.2.

[kwrosenzweig]

Hi swguy, I installed the mode and my specials expiration date is 11/01/12 so that the sale goes until 10/31 at midnight. If I leave $one_day_back = false) the date in the products description is 11/1. If I hange it to true, then the date in the product description is 10/30. Also, the date shows for example: Thursday 01 November, 2012. Is there a way to change the format so that it is Thursday, November 01, 2012?

[swguy]

The longdate within this plugin uses the settings for zen_date_long, which is set in includes/languages/english.php. Override this by copying it to includes/languages/YOUR_TEMPLATE/english.php, and change

define('DATE_FORMAT_LONG', '%A %d %B, %Y');

to

define('DATE_FORMAT_LONG', '%A %B %d, %Y');

[mikebr]

June 20th starts at Midnight June 20th which is 1 minute after June 19th 11:59pm ...

Did you want the special to end June 20th at midnight or really June 21st at Midnight which is 1 minute after June 20th 11:59pm?

12:00 Midnight is the customer's Time or the Server's Time?

[swguy]

Server's time.