Dynamic Filter [Support Thread]

[Baloo]

Hi all,
I have been trying for quite some time to get this dynamic filter working, but at several obstacles have given up. I'm far from an expert in ZenCart, and have very limited knowledge in PHP and SQL, but I am intelligent enough to follow instructions if they are made clear.

I really think the Dynamic filter would be a huge asset to my site. I sell food from ainleyorganics.co.uk, and a lot of my customers have special dietary requirements such as gluten free, vegan, or even organic.

My issue now, is a similar one mentioned previously in this thread, but the fix mentioned at that point didn't help mine.

I use the AppleZen template. When the sidebox is turned on, all appropriate pages take a very long time to load, and once they do, the dynamic filter side box rarely appears, and anything after it doesn't appear. Also the footer disappears, and the header appears but with screwed up alignment.

I hope someone can help.

The sidebox isn't currently turned on, as my site is live, but if someone would be happy to help me I could activate it, and maybe chat over skype or similar.

Looking forward to any inspiration.

Regards

Baloo

[Kevin205]

Hi, great mod by the way. I just have one problem that i could use your help with if you dont mind.
I have dynamic filter installed on a v1.51 site, and i have just installed stock by attributes. Dynamic filter was working great before, but now the filter sidebox will only show attributes if they have stock assigned to them in the stock by attributes mod. As most my filters are read only and not meant to have stock levels this is a bit of a problem. Is there a work round this at all, or am i going to have to assign stock levels to all my read only attributes? Thanks in advance.

Hi, Thanks for the suggestion Kevin but I just tried that and it doesn't work unfortunately. Anymore suggestions would be greatly appreciated! I would rather not have to assign stock levels to all my read only attributes, as not only would it be time consuming but it would also be harder to use the Stock By Attributes most appealing feature to me, of being able to update quantities from a csv file. Hopefully somebody might be able to help?

I am now having the same problem using Dynamic filter along with SBA table.

Is there a way to display all attributes, regardless of the number of attributes in stock, even when zero?

[kitten091182]

I am now having the same problem using Dynamic filter along with SBA table.

Is there a way to display all attributes, regardless of the number of attributes in stock, even when zero?

Hi Kevin, did you ever find a fix to this problem? To be honest, I haven't had another look at it since as I have been busy with other projects, but I will have a look over the weekend if you still need a hand too? Another problem I have come upon, if anybody can help, is the meta tags. When I do checks on the meta tags on my site, it is showing that I have a lot of duplicate meta tags. This is because when a filter is applied, the resulting page uses the default meta tag description and title that is in my meta tags file. It would be good if there was a way to get dynamic filter to self populate the meta information for the filtered page based on what is chosen? I don't really like the errors it is bringing up for duplicate content with Google

[Design75]

Hi Kevin, did you ever find a fix to this problem? To be honest, I haven't had another look at it since as I have been busy with other projects, but I will have a look over the weekend if you still need a hand too? Another problem I have come upon, if anybody can help, is the meta tags. When I do checks on the meta tags on my site, it is showing that I have a lot of duplicate meta tags. This is because when a filter is applied, the resulting page uses the default meta tag description and title that is in my meta tags file. It would be good if there was a way to get dynamic filter to self populate the meta information for the filtered page based on what is chosen? I don't really like the errors it is bringing up for duplicate content with Google

Did you remember to add the filter attributes to your canonical.php

From the manual:

Canonical Support
Canonical support, which is built in to Zen Cart can be used to omit Dynamic Filter variables from the generated canonical tag by adding your filter variables to the $excludeParams array in the following file (not supplied in this distribution):

• includes/init_includes/init_canonical.php

For example, if your store has the option 'Colour', add the following line of code shown in red, found around line 18:

• // EXCLUDE certain parameters which should not be included in canonical links:
• $excludeParams = array('zenid', 'action', 'main_page', 'currency', 'typefilter', 'gclid', 'search_in_description', 'pto', 'pfrom', 'dto', 'dfrom', 'inc_subcat');
• $excludeParams[] = 'disp_order';
• $excludeParams[] = 'page';
• $excludeParams[] = 'sort';
• $excludeParams[] = 'alpha_filter_id';
• $excludeParams[] = 'filter_id';
• $excludeParams[] = 'utm_source';
• $excludeParams[] = 'utm_medium';
• $excludeParams[] = 'utm_content';
• $excludeParams[] = 'utm_campaign';
• $excludeParams[] = 'language';
• $excludeParams[] = DYNAMIC_FILTER_PREFIX . 'Colour';

[Kevin205]

I having been getting the following error for days.

[19-Nov-2013 08:03:02 America/Denver] PHP Fatal error: Allowed memory size of 134217728 bytes exhausted (tried to allocate 72 bytes) in /public_html/includes/templates/***/sideboxes/tpl_dynamic_filter.php on line 79

I eliminated the error by disabling the Dynamic Filter on All Products Page, in Dynamic Filter configuration.

I really wish there was a way Dynamic filter would NOT look at the inventory level to display; products that their attributes are either set to Read Only (Option Type), or when Used For Display Purposes Only is set to Yes in (Attribute Flag)!

It is really useless to keep track of inventory for a Read Only attributes and when the attribute Flag is set to Display Only attribute! I think it will also speedup the queries and will stop generating errors as indicated above.

[Kevin205]

Hi Kevin, did you ever find a fix to this problem? To be honest, I haven't had another look at it since as I have been busy with other projects, but I will have a look over the weekend if you still need a hand too? Another problem I have come upon, if anybody can help, is the meta tags. When I do checks on the meta tags on my site, it is showing that I have a lot of duplicate meta tags. This is because when a filter is applied, the resulting page uses the default meta tag description and title that is in my meta tags file. It would be good if there was a way to get dynamic filter to self populate the meta information for the filtered page based on what is chosen? I don't really like the errors it is bringing up for duplicate content with Google

I eliminated that issue by deleting the default, main site meta tags and used individual category and product meta tags instead.

[i_aliki24]

I am having the same problem. Could you please help me out? Thanks!

[i_aliki24]

I managed to find a workaround for this

I am having the same problem. Could you please help me out? Thanks!

[Justrimless]

I have this working to a degree with a couple of issues, the main one being,
When I click on a category, the products are listed and the available filter options are shown.
Sometimes I filter on an option and the result is zero products even though results should be shown.
Do results only come back where the product's main category corresponds with the category being searched on?

To see what I mean, if you go here http://onestopglasses[dot]co[dot]uk/index.php?main_page=index&cPath=102
and select option 'Light Brown', no results will return despite it being available as an option on more than one of those products.

Any ideas?
Thanks in advance.

[Justrimless]

Further to the above,

With some categories, products search OK with some colours but return (incorrectly) zero results with others.
I'm nonplussed and would appreciate any help. are my attributes munged up somehow?