Add Customers from Admin 2.0 (1.5.0 and later) [Support Thread]

[swguy]

Version: v3.0.0 only runs on 1.5.7. You will need to use an older version or upgrade your cart.

[jasonshanks]

Ah thank you so much! , I should have read the compatible versions list right under the downloads. 2.0.10 is the last version that supported my 1.5.6 cart. Thanks again.

[Francois]

I am busy upgrading my store to ZenCart v158.
Upon installing this plugin's latest version, I get an Err 500 when accessing the admin/customers/add customer function.
The error log mentions a missing file admin/includes/languages/english/gv_name.php
It seems this fiile was renamed in ZC v158 to lang.gv_name.php

How can I fix it?
Any support thread about the new naming of language fles? (Can I expect similar problems with this/other plugin modules...)

[swguy]

This plugin (and many others) will need some love before they're fully ready for 1.5.8. For now, just add customers on the storefront.

[Francois]

This plugin (and many others) will need some love before they're fully ready for 1.5.8. For now, just add customers on the storefront.

Thank you for the prompt reply, swguy.

Makes me feel really disheartened, though. It started with the hosting provider only supporting pHp8.0 and up from beginning October.
I had to fix a lot of errors on my v155 store in order to get it working. It is still running at the moment, albeit shakily. However, the amount of error logs created every day is just crazy, so I decided to upgrade to v157.

The v157 upgrade caused a lot of database integration problems though. (I did not perform the steps in the best order).

So this week I decided to start over (as per your suggestions). Then I discovered v158 was released. In order to buy some extra time until the next forced pHp upgrade, I decided to give it a go. Now, after many hours of work, I realize that many plugins will need an update before being compatible (e.g. due to different language file convention).

Unfortunately, after 10 years we have learnt to rely heavily on some plugins in order to get the work done in a sufficient way on a daily basis...

Seems I will have to start again on v157, hopefully encountering less integration problems.

Wish I knew about all this before I started...

[wsworx]

Basically, it is "Welcome to the world of opensource".
As a small business it cost too much to buy premade that someone maintains constantly. But still cost too much to try and do it yourself with software that others have been gracious enough to share or share at a lower cost than they really should be making for it. For me it has tended to be a game of staying up to date enough not to get hacked but not so much that your software stops functioning at the level you need it to.

[swguy]

As a reminder, you can always hire this kind of work out. If you hire someone from the Commercial Help Wanted forum, you're supporting the product too.

[Francois]

Basically, it is "Welcome to the world of opensource".
As a small business it cost too much to buy premade that someone maintains constantly. But still cost too much to try and do it yourself with software that others have been gracious enough to share or share at a lower cost than they really should be making for it. For me it has tended to be a game of staying up to date enough not to get hacked but not so much that your software stops functioning at the level you need it to.

wsworx, as a small business owner, I agree 100% with your philosophy and have consented to the struggle many years ago. (In a way, I even enjoyed the challenges).

However, in the case of v158, it would have been nice to be warned in some way of the many additional pitfalls...

[Francois]

As a reminder, you can always hire this kind of work out. If you hire someone from the Commercial Help Wanted forum, you're supporting the product too.

swguy, I would love to be able to do that. But, residing in South Africa, the exchange rate just makes it basically impossible. (I have asked for quotes in the Help Wanted forum in the past). So, I am stuck with my own rusted programming skills. Luckily my son is a full stack developer, and I can bug him (when he is available) for some assistance (only costing me the price of a meal or two...)

[swguy]

> However, in the case of v158, it would have been nice to be warned in some way of the many additional pitfalls...

Please create the change you want to see. It's the open source way. PRs are welcome to the documentation repo at
https://github.com/zencart/documentation

I have beefed up the Release Specific Upgrade Considerations page.
https://docs.zen-cart.com/user/upgra...onsiderations/