Creating an add-on "product type book" for ZC 1.5

[Design75]

In which file would I find the "Other books by"? I would like to change it to "Other books by this author" or something generic like that.

Brice

You can find it in (arround line 52)
\ZC_INSTALLATION\includes\languages\YOUR_LANGUAGE\product_bookx_info.php

[philou]

You can find it in (arround line 52)
\ZC_INSTALLATION\includes\languages\YOUR_LANGUAGE\product_bookx_info.php

In addition I suggest that you use the ZC override mechanism, so make a copy of \ZC_INSTALLATION\includes\languages\YOUR_LANGUAGE\product_bookx_info.php and put it into \ZC_INSTALLATION\includes\languages\YOUR_LANGUAGE\YOUR_TEMPLATE\product_bookx_info.php and make you changes in the copied file.

Also please be advised that BookX arranges the "Other books by" in a more complex manner (at least as of the next version :-)
If a book has three authors X,Y and Z, then first there will be "Other books by X, Y and Z" with the same team of 3 authors, then individually "Other books by X", "Other books by Y", "Other books by Z". Books which are listed as "by the same team" do not display again in the individual lists for each author.
This is in order to differentiate which of the authors the referred book is by and at the same time not repeating the same title over and over on the same page.

All this to say that changing the Text to "Books by the same author" will possibly give you some unexpected results, unless all your books ever only have one author.

Best,
philou

[suportafaceri]

Hello philou and thanks for your great module. I've instaled it on a test site and i want to use it with the Tabbed products module.
I have a problem with the filter sidebox as it only shows filters for author and series and another problem is that if i try to use the filter, it doesn't show the books asigned to the respective author or series.
Do you have any idea why?

[philou]

Hi,

hard to troubleshoot it based on the info you give. I haven't changed anything on the filter module in recent releases, so it couldn't be a new bug. If you want to filter e.g. by genre, have you created some genres and assigned it to some products? Also, does the filter work if you create a URL manually as described here: http://sourceforge.net/p/zencartbook...Configuration/
Lastly, do you find anything in the ZC debug log, found in the folder "cache", which might give me some more info?

Best regards,
p.

Hello philou and thanks for your great module. I've instaled it on a test site and i want to use it with the Tabbed products module.
I have a problem with the filter sidebox as it only shows filters for author and series and another problem is that if i try to use the filter, it doesn't show the books asigned to the respective author or series.
Do you have any idea why?

[suportafaceri]

I have instaled the 9.2 version. I think that part of my problem is that nothing gets written in the product_bookx_extra table but it does in the product_bookx_extra_description. I can PM you my site if you have time to figure this out with me.

[suportafaceri]

The problem was solved with the help of philou. The problem was with the content of my database.

[philou]

Hey, glad you found what the problem was!

[oldcat]

Hi philou,
I have installed 0.92 ver. on my Japanese site and It works great!!!.
Just one question.
I have 3000 over authors on my site.
So I feel some difficulties finding an author with "drop-down list box".
Is it possible to add "the searchbox" on admin section?



Best Regards,
oldcat

[philou]

Hi Oldcat,

glad to hear it works for you as well!
It should not be too difficult to implement search or "type ahead" functionality into the dropdown for authors on the product editing page in the Admin backend. However, I still have a few other items on my list to resolve for the 1.0 release which I keep postponing to include extra functionality :)

So I can't tell you how soon I can get to including this…

Best regards,
p.

[oldcat]

Hi philou,
Thank you for your quick response.
It's good to hear that it is not too difficult to implement these functions.
Thanks anyway.

Best regards,
oldcat