Contest System [support thread]

[Dawl]

Just installed this and we're having issues. When clicking the button to select a winner it just redirects to the admin login screen. No matter what I do, I can't get it to choose the winner...just login screen over and over.

[skipwater]

Just installed this and we're having issues. When clicking the button to select a winner it just redirects to the admin login screen. No matter what I do, I can't get it to choose the winner...just login screen over and over.

Check your cache folder for a debug log file.

It sounds like a session issue.

Skip

[bookwise]

Hi Skip

Can you please tell me how to set up this contribution so that the contest start and end dates are in the dd/mm/yy format. I guess I have to modify some files but I am not sure exactly what. I live in New Zealand and my server is located here too so both my Zen cart time and the server time are in this dd/mm/yy format.

[skipwater]

Hi Skip

Can you please tell me how to set up this contribution so that the contest start and end dates are in the dd/mm/yy format. I guess I have to modify some files but I am not sure exactly what. I live in New Zealand and my server is located here too so both my Zen cart time and the server time are in this dd/mm/yy format.

admin->Configuration->Contests->Contest Date Display Format

Change to d/m/Y

That will display Day/Month/Year 30/03/2011

Skip

[bookwise]

Thanks for your reply Skip. I now have the contest start and end dates showing in the correct format. However I have struck a snag. When the contestant enters the competition they are shown a success message that has a date on it:

Contest

You have been successfully entered into the prize draw!

The Winner will be notified by emailed after 05/22/2011

How can I change the date in this message to show 22/05/2011 ie in the correct format for my geographical region?

[skipwater]

Thanks for your reply Skip. I now have the contest start and end dates showing in the correct format. However I have struck a snag. When the contestant enters the competition they are shown a success message that has a date on it:

Contest

You have been successfully entered into the prize draw!

The Winner will be notified by emailed after 05/22/2011

How can I change the date in this message to show 22/05/2011 ie in the correct format for my geographical region?

open and edit includes/templates/YOUR_TEMPLATE/templates/tpl_contest_default.php
Look around line 200 and find

echo 'The Winner will be notified by emailed after '.CONTEST_CLOSE_DATE.'<br/>';

Change to This

echo 'The Winner will be notified by emailed after '.$disp_close_date.'<br/>';

Skip

[bookwise]

Skip thanks for all your help thus far. I am happy to report this mod is working for me on the latest Zen Cart version 1.3.9h.

One other question I have is do you know of a way to limit entrants to a specific zone or country? I would like to have my competition open to residents of my own country only. Is there a way to add an if statement or something to cover this?

[skipwater]

Skip thanks for all your help thus far. I am happy to report this mod is working for me on the latest Zen Cart version 1.3.9h.

One other question I have is do you know of a way to limit entrants to a specific zone or country? I would like to have my competition open to residents of my own country only. Is there a way to add an if statement or something to cover this?

Short answer no. But it could be done just alot of code.

As for now you could just change the contest rules saying that only good in xyz country.

Skip

[irishshopper]

My Contest is working but I have received over 5,000 entries in 2 weeks. All different names/emails but 90% have come from the same IP Address. Is there any way of blocking it or limiting 1 entry per IP address ?

[DivaVocals]

My Contest is working but I have received over 5,000 entries in 2 weeks. All different names/emails but 90% have come from the same IP Address. Is there any way of blocking it or limiting 1 entry per IP address ?

See if applying the suggestion in this thread to the contest form works for ya (it should)

http://www.zen-cart.com/forum/showthread.php?t=166212