Ceon Back In Stock Notifications 3.0.0

[conor]

Hi,

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

The software will work for any product without attributes. For products with attributes, only the stock of the "main" product is tracked, the stock of the attributes is not, so notifications can't be sent out for them.

All the best..

Conor
ceon

[OLCS]

Hi Conor,

Another amazing add on, well done!

I think I may have broken it though

I had a test customer setup which I used to add a product notification so I could see the layout of the form and extra text on my product info page. Once I had played with the formatting of the page I then deleted the test customer. Now when I go into the admin it shows that I still have a product with a back in stock notification against it which I cannot get rid of.

I tried sending the notification email in the hope that would clear it however I just get a HTTP 500 Internal Server Error.

Is there a way I can delete this record from the database? If so where would I find it?

Thanks in advance for any help you can give.

[conor]

Hi,

Another amazing add on, well done!

Glad that you like it and that it may be useful for your store! Clearly it's not the best-written module though, there's a lot that's quite basic in it, that should be done much better. :)

I think I may have broken it though

I'm not sure entirely, but, well, it doesn't have functionality to delete subscriptions when a customer is deleted, and various other functionality like that that ideally it should have.

Quite simply, we've never deleted a customer, and no-one else who maybe has done so, has ever asked for the software to also delete subscriptions for customers that have been deleted. Adding such support would be easy but obviously as the admin has no notification system, the core file that handles the customer deletion would have to be modified.

Or, if there's a simple way to check that a customer doesn't exist, at the time when e-mails are sent, the subscription could be deleted then regardless... currently they are deleted after being sent though so this is why I say above "not sure entirely".. certainly a 500 error is "not right".

I've just been notified that Ceon Cardsave Direct, Ceon PaymentSense Direct and Ceon Iridium Direct are all incompatible with PHP 5.4 (due to passing an object by reference) so I'm busy sorting those out.

I'll check into this issue for BISN version 4, when I get time to work on it.

Is there a way I can delete this record from the database? If so where would I find it?

Thanks in advance for any help you can give.

In the meantime use PHPMyAdmin and search by product_id in the back_in_stock_notification_subscriptions table, then just delete that subscription by hand.

Not the nicest way to do things, but the module is fairly basic (although definitely useful and usable as attested by the increased sales on people's stores :) ).

Have a good evening.

All the best...

Conor
ceon

[OLCS]

Hi Conor,

Thanks for the response, and thanks for coming back to me so quickly.

Clearly it's not the best-written module though, there's a lot that's quite basic in it, that should be done much better. :)

You are way too harsh on yourself, it works really well, and if I wasn't a doughnut I wouldn't have had this problem :) Your solution worked though so am all ok again now, thank you.

I've just been notified that Ceon Cardsave Direct, Ceon PaymentSense Direct and Ceon Iridium Direct are all incompatible with PHP 5.4 (due to passing an object by reference) so I'm busy sorting those out.

Sounds like a busy time you have ahead of you, quite understandable you don't have the time to sort out little 'niggles'.

Have a good evening

Thank you. You too!

[conor]

Hi,

Thanks for the response, and thanks for coming back to me so quickly.

No problem, I'll always reply when able.

You are way too harsh on yourself, it works really well, and if I wasn't a doughnut I wouldn't have had this problem :) Your solution worked though so am all ok again now, thank you.

Thanks for the nice comments, but my views on software certainly mean that BISN isn't great at all.. its functionality is decent enough though and it makes a difference so that'll do for now. :)

Glad things are working now. Not sure why a 500 error would have appeared.. we'll see if I encounter it when looking into your issue further for version 4.

Sounds like a busy time you have ahead of you, quite understandable you don't have the time to sort out little 'niggles'.

Ahead of me, lol, if I'd ever any time all these things would work well (although in a completely different form.. complete tangent... anyway..)

Thank you. You too!

Will do. :)

All the best...

Conor
ceon

[WiccanWitch420]

Is there anything I could do to make it work? Or would it be worthwhile for me to install and use for all products, since most of the time when I restock I will get the different attrributes in at the same time? Do you know of a mod that is more compatible with the stock by attributes>? Any ideas? I have 1300 products, and about 400 of them have attributes (clothing sizes) Do you have a demo site with this installed or any screen shots of how this mod works, etc? Let me know. thanks.

[conor]

Hi,

Is there anything I could do to make it work? Or would it be worthwhile for me to install and use for all products, since most of the time when I restock I will get the different attrributes in at the same time? Do you know of a mod that is more compatible with the stock by attributes>?

This is the only Back In Stock module for Zen Cart as far as I know.

Ceon has never used Stock by Attributes on any site as we wrote our own software for that for a client that had wanted "Product Variants" functionality sometime back in 2007. I've added support for it into v4 of BISN.

So I'm afraid we'll never be adding support for the Stock by Attributes module. Others are of course free to and to send us the code and I'll include it in a future version of BISN. Given the effort that might require I'm not surprised no one has done that as yet.

Any ideas? I have 1300 products, and about 400 of them have attributes (clothing sizes) Do you have a demo site with this installed or any screen shots of how this mod works, etc? Let me know. thanks.

lol it's not too hard to find the Ceon website.. just like most other users here I tend to add a link in my "sig", it's the bit that's under my name. :)

Have a nice weekend.

All the best..

Conor
ceon

[WiccanWitch420]

I see that you have the stock by variants. What would it entail for me to move my system to stock by variants and use your restock notification mod too? All of my clothing products right now use stock by attributes, here is an example http://www.mysticcrypt.com/plus-size...ue-p-1746.html

[conor]

Hi,

I see that you have the stock by variants. What would it entail for me to move my system to stock by variants and use your restock notification mod too? All of my clothing products right now use stock by attributes, here is an example http://www.mysticcrypt.com/plus-size...ue-p-1746.html

Sorry, this isn't the right place to talk about this.. the Ceon Product Variants software is separate from Ceon Back In Stock Notifications. No thread exists for it here yet, not least because the software isn't finished/released!

You can contact Ceon through our website if you like.

All the best..

Conor
ceon

[ecclescake]

Hello, I'm in the process of installing this mod and am coming across a problem I haven't seen addressed here.

I've loaded all the mod's files into my local (test) version of the shop, and I visited Catalog > Ceon BISN in the admin to activate the module.

Now I visit an out-of-stock product in the shop, and lo and behold, there's a nice form for me to sign up for notifications. Great! I sign up and get the confirmation email, but when I click on the link to go to the account_back_in_stock_notifications page, I see "Warning: an error occurred, please refresh the page and try again." This usually seems to crop up on a database error, but there's nothing in my myDEBUG cache. Nothing in phpErrorLog either. I check the database and I find the table called back_in_stock_notifications_subscriptions, with my subscription in it. I try deactivating and reactivating the mod, then revisiting Catalog > Ceon BISN but I still get the same error. The subscription shows up fine in the admin.

I've triple-checked that all the files are in place, and I'm not sure where this error originates. I'd welcome any insight.

Thanks so much!
erin.