Ceon Back In Stock Notifications 3.0.0

[conor]

Hi Ashely,

Many thanks for your fast response as always.

No problem, glad you are sorted now!

I have another question. I tried to put a "Notify me" button on the product listing page. It worked ok by opening a new page (<a href="' . zen_href_link(FILENAME_BACK_IN_STOCK_NOTIFICATION_SUBSCRIBE, zen_get_all_get_params(array('action', 'products_id')) . 'products_id='. (int)$product_id .'POST') . '" target="_blank">)

This is wrong:

$product_id .'POST' 

IT works because Zen Cart filters out the "POST", but basically, change that to get rid of the additional text ".'POST'":

$product_id 

Is there any way to fix this? I think I should add some codes but not sure where and what exactly to add. Could you help?

Sorry but the one thing I don't support for free is custom coding unless I can give an instant answer and on this occasion I can't remember offhand what you need to add, possibly an observer, I'm sure you understand.

Have a nice weekend!

All the best..

Conor
ceon

[Ashely]

Hi Conor,

Thanks for your previous response and help.

I encountered a new problem. In my customers' "Back in Stock Notification" section, the links of those items are totally incorrect. That is, by clicking the link, the customer is just led to a different product.

What could be wrong then?

Another question is regarding to the admin menu. Since I just upgraded my zencart store to 1.5.0, I did simply copy all the files from my test site to the live store. But after that, I found I could no longer find the "Back in Stock Notifications" link under the "Catalog" menu in admin. How can I bring back the link? Or must I removed the files and then re-install it?

Thanks very much again for your time and patience!

Will look forward to your reply.

Best Regards,
Ashely

[conor]

Hi,

Thanks for your previous response and help.

Glad you're sorted.

I encountered a new problem. In my customers' "Back in Stock Notification" section, the links of those items are totally incorrect. That is, by clicking the link, the customer is just led to a different product.

What could be wrong then?

The links to the products should be correct.. the only way they wouldn't be is if the product IDs have changed since the subscriptions were created.

Which would mean that this isn't a problem with BISN but with your database.

Sorry, I can't help you with that here. Check the product IDs for the products and the subscrptions.

Another question is regarding to the admin menu. Since I just upgraded my zencart store to 1.5.0, I did simply copy all the files from my test site to the live store. But after that, I found I could no longer find the "Back in Stock Notifications" link under the "Catalog" menu in admin. How can I bring back the link? Or must I removed the files and then re-install it?

That's not the way to upgrade Zen Cart really, nevertheless all you need to do for this is run the 1.5.0 installation code. You can do that by copying the following file from the BISN zip to your store, then when you go to the admin it will automatically add the link in:

admin/includes/functions/extra_functions/back_in_stock_notifications_admin_page_reg.php

Enjoy the rest of your weekend!

All the best..

Conor
ceon

[laydback]

Hi,



Glad you like the software.. I'm working on v4 at the minute (with support for products with attributes via the forthcoming Ceon Product Variants module), hopefully it can be released soon.

The functionality you are asking for is already part of the software. You must have missed the step where you modify functions_general.php

Follow the installation instructions again (specifically the step "Updated Core File"), and you should be able to get things working so that the product listings link to the subscription form when a product (which has no attributes) is out of stock.

All the best..

Conor
ceon

Will the next version include the ability to delete subscriptions? I've been doing it through phpMyAdmin up until now.

[conor]

Hi,

Will the next version include the ability to delete subscriptions? I've been doing it through phpMyAdmin up until now.

It will actually, as a very nice person is donating a bit towards its development and he asked for that very feature.

Lucky for you then!

All the best..

Conor
ceon

[pricediscrimination]

Is there a way to hack this add-on to display the subscriber's email address in the email that is sent when they sign up? Otherwise, to dig up the email you have to go all the way into the admin section and search for it. If the email address was right there at the bottom of the email (perhaps with useranme, time, ip, for office use, etc) it would be helpful.

[conor]

Hi,

If the email address was right there at the bottom of the email (perhaps with useranme, time, ip, for office use, etc) it would be helpful.

The "extra info" Zen Cart adds to its other standard e-mails?

I don't see why I shouldn't add that into version 4. Will do.

Don't ask when v4 is out, I don't comment, time is tight at the minute, support from people here very weak, and it'll be out when I have time to finish and release it; maybe, hopefully, later this month.

All the best..

Conor
ceon

[pricediscrimination]

Hi,



The "extra info" Zen Cart adds to its other standard e-mails?

I don't see why I shouldn't add that into version 4. Will do.

Don't ask when v4 is out, I don't comment, time is tight at the minute, support from people here very weak, and it'll be out when I have time to finish and release it; maybe, hopefully, later this month.

All the best..

Conor
ceon

Ohhh when will that be out??


jk Thank you so much!

[Limitless]

I thought I would post up something that I have done that I found helpful to use with this mod.

I update my inventory often, but don't always remember to check the Back In Stock page to send users emails.


Using the information found in this thread:

http://www.zen-cart.com/showthread.p...for-a-cron-job


This is for 1.5, but in the referenced thread, you can deduce what you need to do for earlier versions.


Create a new admin profile and grant it ONLY access to the 'Ceon Back in Stock Notifications' page.

Create a new admin user and assign it to the newly created profile.

Take note of the system assigned user number!

Edit your admin/includes/init_includes/init_admin_auth.php file

Add the following (in red):

if (!defined('IS_ADMIN_FLAG')) die('Illegal Access');

if (!isset($_SESSION['admin_id']) && defined('CRON_ADMIN_USER_ID') && (int)CRON_ADMIN_USER_ID != 0) {
$_SESSION['admin_id'] = CRON_ADMIN_USER_ID;
}


Now edit ceon's BIN file (admin/back_in_stock_notifications.php)

Right at the top where it says 'don't touch!',

add (in red) Change the # to be what YOUR newly created user id NUMBER is:


define('CEON_BACK_IN_STOCK_NOTIFICATIONS_VERSION', '3.2.0');
define('CRON_ADMIN_USER_ID', '#');
require('includes/application_top.php');




Now schedule a cron job every few hours/days/whatever to send the emails, if any are needing to be sent.

Adjust the below to suit your site.

Cron job:

wget --no-check-certificate 'https://www.MYDOMAIN.com/admin-XXXXXXXXXXXXX/back_in_stock_notifications.php?action=send&option=4'



Enjoy.

[WiccanWitch420]

I am running version 1.3.9 H I have products with attributes stock,. Will this be compatible?