Better Together Contribution Support Thread

[swguy]

The Better Together Contribution is availalble at
http://www.zen-cart.com/index.php?ma...roducts_id=309

This contribution allows you to associate products for discounts when they are purchased together, in the same way that Amazon does. It is an order total module, so you will see the discount at checkout time on page 2. Because of dependancies on the latest shopping_cart.php, you *must* be running ZenCart 1.3.5 to run this module.

More information is provided at:
http://www.thatsoftwareguy.com/zenca..._together.html

Good luck,
Scott

[DrByte]

Is it just me, or is this coded specifically for PHP5 ?
Seems to be incompatible with PHP4 ...

[swguy]

Where did it break in your PHP 4 installation? I actually tried to avoid using PHP 5 features but I'm developing on FC4 so I may have inadvertently used some.

Thanks,
Scott

[swguy]

mmmm... I'll bet it's the scope resolution stuff that's giving you grief. I'll install on my PHP4 site and test tonight; shouldn't be hard to fix it for php4.

Scott

[TinaS]

Haven't installed it yet- but thanks for Releasing it Scott! I have a client that is interested already - will let you know if we have any problems.

[DrByte]

I'll bet it's the scope resolution stuff that's giving you grief.

Yes. Probably need to build a PHP4-style constructor to set scope more compatibly ...

[swguy]

D-ohhh! Serves me right for using arcane features.

OK - please check back shortly for a PHP 4 compliant version. It shouldn't be a big deal to fix it.

Scott

[Yannick Deltroo]

Hello,

I've installed the better together module and it works just fine in most cases.
However, I've got problem in the following (real-world) tax nightmare case :
- The product and its linked product are in two different tax classes. I can add both products to the cart and get the correct discount, however if ...
- I add a third unlinked product to the cart (from a third tax class!) ...then I get a wrong discount.

I guess the discount should not be re-calculated when I add an unlinked product.

My shop displays prices with tax included, and I've set the better together module to "include taxes"=true and "re-calculate tax"=standard .

Am I missing something ?

[swguy]

Am I missing something ?

Nope. This is just an ugly problem. I wrote a pretty long explanation of some of the issues:
http://www.thatsoftwareguy.com/zenca...sales_tax.html

Try the Group Discounts module in Zencart and see if you like the tax behavior they used. It was changed in 1.3.6 to use a ratio of the prediscount to post discount prices as a multiplicand to determine a new "adjusted" tax. As mentioned on 31 Oct, if there is sufficient demand, I may fold this algorithm in as an option.

Scott

[swguy]

Version 1.2 has been released; there is now support for 2 for 1/Buy One, Get One Free type discounts for identical items. You may permit these discounts at the product level or the category level.

Download here: http://www.zen-cart.com/index.php?ma...roducts_id=309

Help here: http://www.thatsoftwareguy.com/zenca..._together.html

Good luck,
Scott