Salemaker problems

[cheddars]

Yesterday I setup a sale in salemaker.
I selected the start and end dates using spiffycalendar - date is shown in format dd/mm/Y. When I go to the summary screen the dates format has changed to mm/dd/Y and as a result the salemaker module considers the sale has finished ie instead of 1st Sept it translates as 9th January.

Even when the sale has been marked as live there are problems in the shop. In some cases products show the discounted cost but the shopping cart only shows the full cost. In other products the shopping cart correctly shoes the discounted cost.

I am using the current Zencart version 1.39h. What am I doing wrong please?

[Ajeh]

SaleMaker is designed to be setup with dates as: mm/dd/Y

[cheddars]

Thanks for your reply ajeh.
I actually select the date from the popup calendar. It is then shown as 01/09/2011, for example. When I press the update button the date is shown as 09/01/2011 on the summary screen and the sale status is red [disabled].

[Ajeh]

What setting do you have, on the server, in the file:

/your_admin_dir/includes/languages/english.php

Line #29 : define('DATE_FORMAT_SPIFFYCAL', 'MM/dd/yyyy'); //Use only 'dd', 'MM' and 'yyyy' here in any order

[Ajeh]

Actually, if you could check all of these:

/your_admin_dir/includes/languages/english.php

Line #24 : define('DATE_FORMAT_SHORT', '%m/%d/%Y'); // this is used for strftime()

Line #25 : define('DATE_FORMAT_LONG', '%A %d %B, %Y'); // this is used for strftime()

Line #26 : define('DATE_FORMAT', 'm/d/Y'); // this is used for date()

Line #28 : define('DATE_TIME_FORMAT', DATE_FORMAT_SHORT . ' %H:%M:%S');

Line #29 : define('DATE_FORMAT_SPIFFYCAL', 'MM/dd/yyyy'); //Use only 'dd', 'MM' and 'yyyy' here in any order

[cheddars]

The english.php settings in admin are:

setlocale(LC_TIME, 'en_US.ISO_8859-1');
define('DATE_FORMAT_SHORT', '%d/%m/%Y'); // this is used for strftime()
define('DATE_FORMAT_LONG', '%A %d %B, %Y'); // this is used for strftime()
define('DATE_FORMAT', 'd/m/Y'); // this is used for date()
define('PHP_DATE_TIME_FORMAT', 'd/m/Y H:i:s'); // this is used for date()
define('DATE_TIME_FORMAT', DATE_FORMAT_SHORT . ' %H:%M:%S');
define('DATE_FORMAT_SPIFFYCAL', 'dd/MM/yyyy'); //Use only 'dd', 'MM' and 'yyyy' here in any order

[Ajeh]

Try resetting those to the defaults and use the m/d/Y format ...

[cheddars]

Thank you Ajeh.
I have reset the date settings in english.php both in admin and the shop. I have also not used dates when setting up the sale so it is open-ended and the sale covers ALL products.
All products show the discount in the shop.
I still have the strange situation where some products pass the discounted cost to the shopping cart and others pass the full amount.

[DrByte]

I still have the strange situation where some products pass the discounted cost to the shopping cart and others pass the full amount.

Ajeh could clarify this better than I, but what's the master_categories_id on those products which do vs don't get the sale price applied properly?

[cheddars]

On checking it seems that all products that are linked apply the discount correctly in the shopping cart. Other products do not