Ceon Back In Stock Notifications 3.0.0

[ecclescake]

Conor has kindly been working with me behind the scenes to sort out my issues, described upthread. It looks like it was an issue of not uploading the email templates. I have a local version of the site on my computer which automatically synchs with the live version. The email templates were present in my local install, so I'd assumed they were in the live version too, but they weren't. Now I just have to sort out why they weren't being synched--it's not an issue with the mod at all.

Thanks again, Conor, for your helpful mods and kind support!

erin.

[Jeff_Mash]

If this has been asked before, kindly point me to the thread.

I've been using this module religiously on our old 1.3.9h installation. Works great!

Recently, we upgraded our entire site to 1.5.1, and I reinstalled this CEON Module with the latest version. It appears to have picked up all of my previous subscriptions because I see a lot of entries waiting to be emailed with our new stock.

However, when I send out the emails, I am getting blank product descriptions. It's just saying this:

Dear E C Erwin,

We have restocked a product you asked to be notified about.

Please check it out before it goes out of stock again!
Product Back In Stock

As you can see, no product is listed! Any idea what could be wrong?

[Jeff_Mash]

Just to touch on my post above, this graphic may help. When I go to perform a TEST send of the notifications, you can see that many emails are coming up with no products associated with it. That is why the emails are not giving them links to anything, but how come they are still showing up on the list?

Is this something that has to do with upgrading from 1.3.9 to 1.5.1 in zencart? Do I need to purge these blank listings from the database?

Attachment 11714

Also, if I look up one of these records in the database, this is what I see:

Attachment 11715

As you can see, it does contain a product id, but also no email address (even though the email is displayed on the first screenshot I posted). Any ideas?

[Jeff_Mash]

Nevermind my post above. I think it was something modified on our side which was causing the issue.

[Exile Machine]

Installed this mod on my store the other day and wow it is great! This has been the #1 requested feature by my customers and now they have it, and it has already resulted in sales coming in that would not have come in before (or so soon).

I would like to automate the checking and sending of emails now. Stocking status on many of the items on my store is set via a script (running via cron job outside of the zencart environment) that checks my supplier's database every few minutes and generates SQL to update the zencart database. So items can come in stock at 3AM even while I sleep. I would like to email the customer as soon as possible after a stock status change, and a cron job running every few minutes and invoking certain Ceon functions would do the trick.

Conor hints in the back_in_stock_notifications_functions.php that you could use a cron job to call these functions, specifically expungeOutdatedSubscriptionsFromBackInStockNotificationsDB() and sendBackInStockNotifications();. How exactly would that be done? Anyone have any clues or examples? I'm a software engineer by training so don't sugar coat it. Just trying to avoid reinventing the wheel in case anyone has already done this. I'm guessing that at least I'd need to call some sort of zencart main function to let these functions know what database they are to use, etc.

Thanks!
-Mark
President/CEO
Exile Machine LLC

[Limitless]

Installed this mod on my store the other day and wow it is great! This has been the #1 requested feature by my customers and now they have it, and it has already resulted in sales coming in that would not have come in before (or so soon).

I would like to automate the checking and sending of emails now. Stocking status on many of the items on my store is set via a script (running via cron job outside of the zencart environment) that checks my supplier's database every few minutes and generates SQL to update the zencart database. So items can come in stock at 3AM even while I sleep. I would like to email the customer as soon as possible after a stock status change, and a cron job running every few minutes and invoking certain Ceon functions would do the trick.

Conor hints in the back_in_stock_notifications_functions.php that you could use a cron job to call these functions, specifically expungeOutdatedSubscriptionsFromBackInStockNotificationsDB() and sendBackInStockNotifications();. How exactly would that be done? Anyone have any clues or examples? I'm a software engineer by training so don't sugar coat it. Just trying to avoid reinventing the wheel in case anyone has already done this. I'm guessing that at least I'd need to call some sort of zencart main function to let these functions know what database they are to use, etc.

Thanks!
-Mark
President/CEO
Exile Machine LLC

Here you go:

http://www.zen-cart.com/showthread.p...34#post1144934

[Limitless]

Not sure what has changed now, but my 'back in stock notification' emails are missing my domain name in the link that gets sent out?!!?!


Any one run into this before I start digging around?

[RFree190]

Can I change the location of the "Notify Me" button? I'd like to put it inside the FieldSet so it shows inside the form border.

Thanks for the mod, just what we needed!!!

[apriigem]

Not sure if this was covered somewhere else and I missed it but, when I click on the button to be notified when a product will be back in stock, the link just takes me to the product page and that's it. Anyone have an idea what I might be missing here? I installed the mod as per instructions and it seems like it's working all right until i get to that. Any help would be greatly appreciated. Thanks in advance.

Link to site with a product out of stock:

http://www.thecuterie.com/index.php?...ath=1?xyzallow

[clint6998]

Hello all! This is a great plugin and I have tried following the thread and have tried setting up a cron job to auto run the script but I get nothing. I am using v1.5.0 of zen cart and cannot add administrative levels or restrict them to a certain area. The latest for the admin profiles is for 1.3.9 and some of the files to edit do not exist in zen v1.5.0.

Does anyone have a solution so that I can run cron jobs and send out automatic notification of products back in stock? We have over 15,000 products and our inventory is updated every 10 minutes so it would be very nice to have this automated.

Any help would be appreciated.

Clint