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

[philou]

3. Looks like 1 file is missing for the merged files: [YOUR-ZEN-CART-FOLDER]/includes/templates/[YOUR-ACTIVE-TEMPLATE]/templates/tpl_modules_whats_new.php

Hi fjbern,

you will excuse if my questions / suggestions were possibly a bit too entry level for you, but now I see clearer, thanks.

The file tpl_modules_whats_new.php is not absolutely required, if you do not use this functionality. I see now that for some reason the file is not in the current distribution, so I will add it and upload a new archive. If you just want to continue now with installation quickly, you could delete or comment out the line no. 94

DIR_FS_CATALOG_TEMPLATES . $current_template . '/templates/tpl_modules_whats_new.php',

inside [YOUR-ADMIN-FOLDER]/includes/init_includes/init_product_type_bookx.php which checks for the presence of tpl_modules_whats_new.php.

So here is my initial question. Can I upload all the new files in the admin and includes directories without doing the file mods. I then would want to do the file mods individually to make sure they are working properly and not effecting the operation of my store.

I have done my best to develop BookX so it will change the shop files as little as possible and also make it fail gracefully, meaning that I believe you could just upload the extra Bookx files and run the install script and only then do the modifications by hand. Again I have not tried and tested this approach myself, so i can't guarantee that it will work.

Maybe this bit of info helps you:
Bookx does almost all its work by observing the notifier hooks already in the ZC files and then inserting extra code whenever these hooks are triggered. Unfortunately there are not so many hooks in ZC yet as would be needed by BookX, so the manual modifications are almost all simple additions of these notification hooks. They do not change ZC very much at all, so the only error i could see these modifications producing are syntax errors in case something went wrong during making the edits.

Hope you get on well with all this now,
p.