Addons / modules not visable in admin

[jfreeman]

True -> however - getting a programmer to understand 1.5 and upgrading the modules I'm sure is going to be a lot of money. Have any suggestions of who to get in touch with the right people who know 1.5 and could perform the upgrades? I've tried contacting the authors of some of my add-ons and so far I've not had any responses

[DivaVocals]

True -> however - getting a programmer to understand 1.5 and upgrading the modules I'm sure is going to be a lot of money. Have any suggestions of who to get in touch with the right people who know 1.5 and could perform the upgrades? I've tried contacting the authors of some of my add-ons and so far I've not had any responses

It's an investment and IMHO the cost of doing business.. Can't always rely on free add-ons as some authors come and go.. Life happens, folks get busy,, and frankly folks update things when their free time allows if the spirit so moves them. So if your site is your livelihood, it makes sense to invest money into getting your updates versus waiting for every last free add-on you rely on to be updated.. (Especially those add-ons that have not been updated in YEARS.. they may not be upgraded for v1.5 for a while.. if ever unless someone decides to "own" it..)

[DrByte]

I suggest those affected roll back to the previous version until the needed add-on's are upgraded.

There's nothing to "roll back" if you're properly building your upgraded site in a TEMPORARY space.

[gjh42]

Very true:) Anyone who has this problem has not been following the repeated instructions to test the upgrade first before doing it on your live site.

Also, before starting upgrades you should check on all of your important mods to see if they are reported to be working with v1.5.0. (see the sticky thread Confirmed working mods in Zen Cart 1.5 at the top of this subforum).

[RescoCCC]

Also, before starting upgrades you should check on all of your important mods to see if they are reported to be working with v1.5.0.

Yep. This is why I haven't moved my live sites to 1.5 yet. There's one mod that is critical that needs to be updated. The other mods I use all test out fine. Either the old versions already worked, or the authors have updated.

[niccol]

The addon needs to be upgraded to work with the new admin menu system in v1.5. There are several discussion threads which address those matters.
There are several more things, security-related, that are also required when upgrading modules for compatibility with v1.5. If you don't also do those things then your addons will not work either. They'll be redirecting you to your admin home page every time you click on a link in the addon.
So, merely adding menu options isn't sufficient for all addons.

@Dr. Byte
Just so I fully understand. Really for a mod for 1.5 -
-- the admin pages table needs to be populated as discussed in a few other threads.
-- get parameters should be avoided as much as possible especially for any data that effects database changes.
-- all data needs to be sanitised

Are there any other rules that need to be done in the 'several more things' list?

[gjh42]

I don't think you need to avoid GET parameters when fetching info for display to the customer; it's only when saving the info to the db in some way that they are risky.

[niccol]

Absolutely, that was my understanding too . In that things like filters were still acceptable.

But at the same time, I can't see why one would not code those out of existence too for consistency's sake, I mean to say that the advantages of using a get parameter are less important in admin anyway. I can't really imagine a situation where send a filter by post would be a disadvantage if handled correctly, for example.

I guess I am coming at this a bit from the angle of writing new stuff rather than updating old things but ...

[countrycharm]

It's an investment and IMHO the cost of doing business.. Can't always rely on free add-ons as some authors come and go.. Life happens, folks get busy,, and frankly folks update things when their free time allows if the spirit so moves them. So if your site is your livelihood, it makes sense to invest money into getting your updates versus waiting for every last free add-on you rely on to be updated.. (Especially those add-ons that have not been updated in YEARS.. they may not be upgraded for v1.5 for a while.. if ever unless someone decides to "own" it..)

I agree 100%

[WilpackPackaging]

Did everyone in this thread ignore/miss this????

DivaVocals obviously wants you to pay her/him to do these things rather than allow others to learn how to write the code or allow others in these forums to teach each other how to write the code.

She/he also assumes that we are doing this on a live site. Bonkers...I am trying this on a test site...if the funtionality works then maybe it can be added to the original mod and submitted for approval....and then people can contribute their own time and there will be more people out there to make contributions.