Testimonial Manager Support Thread (for ZC v1.5.x)

[ShopVille]

Thanks for the mod! just a feature suggestion i would love to see, the ability to respond to testimonials which should display underneath the Original post

[mc12345678]

Thanks for the mod! just a feature suggestion i would love to see, the ability to respond to testimonials which should display underneath the Original post

Who are you considering would be the respondent, the store owner or another guest? If the store owner, I would have thought that would be possible by editing the testimonial and possibly changing something about the font (separate class) and providing a respponse.

[ShopVille]

Who are you considering would be the respondent, the store owner or another guest? If the store owner, I would have thought that would be possible by editing the testimonial and possibly changing something about the font (separate class) and providing a respponse.

Store owner, and your suggestion would work, but the testimonial text editor is plain-text not HTML

[mc12345678]

Store owner, and your suggestion would work, but the testimonial text editor is plain-text not HTML

Two solutions to that assuming html code hasn't been prohibited in the field: the first and not "nicest", learn html to add in the code, the second incorporate one of the html editors where this editor is displayed to the admin. Or yes an improvement as suggested might be of benefit. Perhaps, in this regard the improvement is a menu choice/dropdown to choose which editor to use when editing the testimonial based on what editors are "installed".

[DivaVocals]

Thanks for the mod! just a feature suggestion i would love to see, the ability to respond to testimonials which should display underneath the Original post

and if someone is so inclined to update the module or share the code which adds this feature, then it will be included.. I don't think that anyone who has been maintaining this mod has any plans to add such a feature.. In the meantime mc12345678's suggestion should work..

Who are you considering would be the respondent, the store owner or another guest? If the store owner, I would have thought that would be possible by editing the testimonial and possibly changing something about the font (separate class) and providing a respponse.

Two solutions to that assuming html code hasn't been prohibited in the field: the first and not "nicest", learn html to add in the code, the second incorporate one of the html editors where this editor is displayed to the admin. Or yes an improvement as suggested might be of benefit. Perhaps, in this regard the improvement is a menu choice/dropdown to choose which editor to use when editing the testimonial based on what editors are "installed".

[Baloo]

Hi,
I FTP'd all the files, but as I was not already logged in to my admin (timed out without realising), the auto-installer didn't get triggered. How can I now trigger it?
Do I need to remove all the files and re-up them? I'm just guessing there must be an easy way, but please excuse my ignorance.

Thanks

Baloo

[Baloo]

Ignore me, I've done it, missed the auto-install file some how

[mc12345678]

Hi,
I FTP'd all the files, but as I was not already logged in to my admin (timed out without realising), the auto-installer didn't get triggered. How can I now trigger it?
Do I need to remove all the files and re-up them? I'm just guessing there must be an easy way, but please excuse my ignorance.

Thanks

Baloo

Not required to be logged in to execute the auto-installer, but you will miss out on anyand all messages that are created by it. It gets activated when ZC loads the admin directory to display to the requester. One reason to keep the admin directory name "private".

Ignore me, I've done it, missed the auto-install file some how

What makes you think you missed uploading the auto-installer file? The fact that it is now not present? Part of the process is for it to be deleted after installation.

[Yvonne DeBandi]

Hi, I'm using 1.5 and love testimonial manager. Having a strange issue where things go haywire on all testimonial display when I add testimonial #5.

Admittedly I know just enough about zen to be dangerous and I did add a product field and a switch case request to allow links to a specific product's testimonials. Is it because of my hack or has anyone run into this before?

And yes...I know the styling should all be in my css files, but my server is caching the css results and I can find no quick relief, so please pardon the inline styling here. :-/

Appreciate any help or guidance. Thanks so much!

<?php
/**
* Testimonials Manager
*
* @package Template System
* @copyright 2007 Clyde Jones
* @copyright Portions Copyright 2003-2007 Zen Cart Development Team
* @license http://www.zen-cart.com/license/2_0.txt GNU Public License V2.0
* @version $Id: Testimonials_Manager.php v1.5.4
*/

?> <style>
blockquote {margin:0 !important;padding:0 !important;
-webkit-border-radius: 20px; -mozborder-radius: 20px; border-radius: 20px;
box-shadow: 5px 5px 5px #007;;
height:1%;width:95%;
background-color:#ffffff;}

blockquote div {padding:38px 56px;height:1%;margin-left:auto; margin-right:auto;}
</style>
<div class="centerColumn" id="testimonialDefault" style="background-image:url(includes/templates/classic/images/background-wallpaper2.jpg); box-shadow: 5px 5px 5px #007;">


<? switch($_REQUEST['req']){
case "read": ?>
<h3> All Testimonials for:</h3>
<? $query = mysql_query("SELECT * FROM zen_testimonials_manager
WHERE testimonials_pid='{$_GET['testimonials_pid']}'");?>
<? $row = mysql_fetch_assoc($query);
$pid = $row['testimonials_pid'];
{?>
<div style="width:250px; height:250px; box-shadow:5px 5px 5px #000080; text-align:center; margin-right:auto; margin-left:auto; border-radius:25px;background-image:url(images/products/<? echo $pid?>.jpg); background-size: 250px 250px;"></div><br />
<? echo "<a href='index.php?main_page=product_info&products_id=".$pid."'>"; echo "<p><br />Click here for product details.</p></a>";?>
<?php
}
?>
<br class="clearBoth" />
<? $query = mysql_query("SELECT * FROM zen_testimonials_manager
WHERE testimonials_pid='{$_GET['testimonials_pid']}'");?>
<? while($row = mysql_fetch_assoc($query)){
$text = $row['testimonials_html_text'];
$pid = $row['testimonials_pid'];
$id = $row['products_id'];
$title = $row['testimonials_title'];
$author = $row['testimonials_name'];
?>
<blockquote>
<div class="testimonial">
<h3><? echo $title ?></h3>
<p>&quot;<?php echo $text?>&quot;</p>
<p align="right"><? echo $author?></p>
</div>
</blockquote><br /><br />
<br class="clearBoth" />
<div class="buttonRow back"><?php echo zen_back_link() . zen_image_button(BUTTON_IMAGE_BACK, BUTTON_BACK_ALT) . '</a>'; ?></div>
<div class="buttonRow forward"><a href="<?php echo zen_href_link(FILENAME_TESTIMONIALS_ADD, '', 'SSL'); ?>"><?php echo zen_image_button(BUTTON_IMAGE_TESTIMONIALS, BUTTON_TESTIMONIALS_ADD_ALT); ?></a></div>

<br class="clearBoth" />
</div><?
} break; ?>
<? default: ?>
<span style="color:#fff"><?php echo HEADING_TITLE; ?></span>
<?php
// $testimonials_query_raw = "select * from " . TABLE_TESTIMONIALS_MANAGER . " where status = 1 and language_id = '" . (int)$_SESSION['languages_id'] . "' order by date_added DESC, testimonials_title";
// $testimonials_split = new splitPageResults($testimonials_query_raw, MAX_DISPLAY_TESTIMONIALS_MANAGER_ALL_TESTIMONIALS);

if (($testimonials_split->number_of_rows > 0) && ((PREV_NEXT_BAR_LOCATION == '1') || (PREV_NEXT_BAR_LOCATION == '3'))) {
?>


<div id="productsListingTopNumber" class="navSplitPagesResult back"><?php echo $testimonials_split->display_count(TEXT_DISPLAY_NUMBER_OF_TESTIMONIALS_MANAGER_ITEMS); ?></div>


<div id="productsListingListingTopLinks" class="navSplitPagesLinks forward"><?php echo TEXT_RESULT_PAGE . ' ' . $testimonials_split->display_links(MAX_DISPLAY_PAGE_LINKS, zen_get_all_get_params(array('page', 'info', 'x', 'y', 'main_page'))); ?></div>
<br />
<br class="clearBoth" />

<hr />

<?php
} // split page
?>
<?php
$testimonials = $db->Execute($testimonials_split->sql_query);
while (!$testimonials->EOF) {
$date_published = $testimonials->fields['date_added'];
?>


<blockquote>
<div class="testimonial">
<table width="100%" border="0" cellpadding="5">
<tr>
<td width="44%"><p class="back"><b><a href="<?php echo zen_href_link(FILENAME_TESTIMONIALS_MANAGER, 'testimonials_id=' . $testimonials->fields['testimonials_id']);?>"><?php echo $testimonials->fields['testimonials_title'];?></a></b></p>

</td>
<td width="56%"><p class="forward"><?php if (DISPLAY_TESTIMONIALS_DATE_PUBLISHED == 'true') { echo zen_date_long($date_published); } ?></p><br class="clearBoth" /></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td><?php
if (($testimonials->fields[testimonials_image]) != ('')) {
$testimonials_image = zen_image(DIR_WS_IMAGES . $testimonials->fields[testimonials_image], $testimonials->fields['testimonials_title'], TESTIMONIAL_IMAGE_WIDTH, TESTIMONIAL_IMAGE_HEIGHT);
?><?php /*if (($testimonials->fields['testimonials_url']) == ('http://') or ($testimonials->fields['testimonials_url']) == ('')) {

echo $testimonials_image;
} else {
echo '<a href="' . $testimonials->fields['testimonials_url'] . '" target="_blank">' . $testimonials_image . '</a>';
}*/

?>
<a href="index.php?main_page=product_info&amp;products_id=<? echo $testimonials->fields['testimonials_pid']?>"><img src="images/products/<? echo ($testimonials->fields['testimonials_pid'])?>.jpg" width="250" height="250" alt="Mark Cahill Ministries" /></a><br /><? if ($testimonials->fields['testimonials_pid'] !=0){
echo "<a href='index.php?main_page=product_info&products_id=".nl2br($testimonials->fields['testimonials_pid']."'>"); ?> </p>
<p><br />
Click here for product details.</p>
</a>
<? } ?></td>
<td style="font-size:16px; font-family: 'Palatino Linotype', 'Book Antiqua', Palatino, serif">&quot;<?php echo nl2br($testimonials->fields['testimonials_html_text']);?>&quot;
<p align="right"> <span class="buttonRow back" style="text-align:right; font-size:11px;"><?php echo TESTIMONIALS_BY; ?> <?php echo $testimonials->fields[testimonials_name] . $testimonial_info; ?></span></p></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td colspan="2"></td>
</tr>

</table>

<?php
}
?>

</div>
</blockquote>

<?php
$testimonial_info = '';
if ( (!empty($testimonials->fields[testimonials_city])) and (!empty($testimonials->fields[testimonials_country])) ) {
$testimonial_info .= NAME_SEPARATOR . $testimonials->fields[testimonials_city] . CITY_STATE_SEPARATOR . $testimonials->fields[testimonials_country];
}
if ( (!empty($testimonials->fields[testimonials_city])) and (empty($testimonials->fields[testimonials_country])) ) {
$testimonial_info .= NAME_SEPARATOR . $testimonials->fields[testimonials_city];
}
if ( (empty($testimonials->fields[testimonials_city])) and (!empty($testimonials->fields[testimonials_country])) ) {
$testimonial_info .= NAME_SEPARATOR . $testimonials->fields[testimonials_country];
}
if (!empty($testimonials->fields[testimonials_company])) {
$testimonial_info .= NAME_SEPARATOR . $testimonials->fields[testimonials_company];
}
?>


<br class="clearBoth" />
<br />
<hr />

<?php
$testimonials->MoveNext();
}
?>

<?php
if (($testimonials_split->number_of_rows > 0) && ((PREV_NEXT_BAR_LOCATION == '2') || (PREV_NEXT_BAR_LOCATION == '3'))) {
?>

<div id="productsListingBottomNumber" class="navSplitPagesResult back"><?php echo $testimonials_split->display_count(TEXT_DISPLAY_NUMBER_OF_TESTIMONIALS_MANAGER_ITEMS); ?></div>

<div id="productsListingListingBottomLinks" class="navSplitPagesLinks forward"><?php echo TEXT_RESULT_PAGE . ' ' . $testimonials_split->display_links(MAX_DISPLAY_PAGE_LINKS, zen_get_all_get_params(array('page', 'info', 'x', 'y', 'main_page'))); ?></div>

<?php
} // split page
?>
<br class="clearBoth" />
<div class="buttonRow back"><?php echo zen_back_link() . zen_image_button(BUTTON_IMAGE_BACK, BUTTON_BACK_ALT) . '</a>'; ?></div>
<div class="buttonRow forward"><a href="<?php echo zen_href_link(FILENAME_TESTIMONIALS_ADD, '', 'SSL'); ?>"><?php echo zen_image_button(BUTTON_IMAGE_TESTIMONIALS, BUTTON_TESTIMONIALS_ADD_ALT); ?></a></div>

<br class="clearBoth" />
</div><? } ?>

[mc12345678]

Hi, I'm using 1.5 and love testimonial manager. Having a strange issue where things go haywire on all testimonial display when I add testimonial #5.

Admittedly I know just enough about zen to be dangerous and I did add a product field and a switch case request to allow links to a specific product's testimonials. Is it because of my hack or has anyone run into this before?

And yes...I know the styling should all be in my css files, but my server is caching the css results and I can find no quick relief, so please pardon the inline styling here. :-/

Appreciate any help or guidance. Thanks so much!

<?php
/**
 * Testimonials Manager
 *
 * @package Template System
 * @copyright 2007 Clyde Jones
  * @copyright Portions Copyright 2003-2007 Zen Cart Development Team
 * @license http://www.zen-cart.com/license/2_0.txt GNU Public License V2.0
 * @version $Id: Testimonials_Manager.php v1.5.4
 */

?> <style>
blockquote {margin:0 !important;padding:0 !important;
-webkit-border-radius: 20px; -mozborder-radius: 20px; border-radius: 20px; 
box-shadow: 5px 5px 5px #007;;
height:1%;width:95%;
background-color:#ffffff;}

blockquote div {padding:38px 56px;height:1%;margin-left:auto; margin-right:auto;}
</style>
<div class="centerColumn" id="testimonialDefault" style="background-image:url(includes/templates/classic/images/background-wallpaper2.jpg); box-shadow: 5px 5px 5px #007;">


<? switch($_REQUEST['req']){
		case	"read": ?>
<h3> All Testimonials for:</h3>        
<? $query = mysql_query("SELECT * FROM zen_testimonials_manager 
WHERE testimonials_pid='{$_GET['testimonials_pid']}'");?>
<? $row = mysql_fetch_assoc($query);
$pid = $row['testimonials_pid']; 
{?>
<div style="width:250px; height:250px; box-shadow:5px 5px 5px #000080; text-align:center; margin-right:auto; margin-left:auto; border-radius:25px;background-image:url(images/products/<? echo $pid?>.jpg); background-size: 250px 250px;"></div><br />
 <?  echo "<a href='index.php?main_page=product_info&products_id=".$pid."'>";   echo "<p><br />Click here for product details.</p></a>";?>
     <?php
   }
?>
<br class="clearBoth" />
<? $query = mysql_query("SELECT * FROM zen_testimonials_manager
WHERE testimonials_pid='{$_GET['testimonials_pid']}'");?>
<? while($row = mysql_fetch_assoc($query)){ 
$text = $row['testimonials_html_text']; 
$pid = $row['testimonials_pid']; 
$id = $row['products_id']; 
$title = $row['testimonials_title'];
$author = $row['testimonials_name']; 
?>
<blockquote>
<div class="testimonial">
<h3><? echo $title ?></h3>
<p>&quot;<?php echo $text?>&quot;</p>
<p align="right"><? echo $author?></p> 
</div>
</blockquote><br /><br />  
<br class="clearBoth" />
<div class="buttonRow back"><?php echo zen_back_link() . zen_image_button(BUTTON_IMAGE_BACK, BUTTON_BACK_ALT) . '</a>'; ?></div>
<div class="buttonRow forward"><a href="<?php echo zen_href_link(FILENAME_TESTIMONIALS_ADD, '', 'SSL'); ?>"><?php echo zen_image_button(BUTTON_IMAGE_TESTIMONIALS, BUTTON_TESTIMONIALS_ADD_ALT); ?></a></div>

<br class="clearBoth" />
</div><?
 } break;    ?> 
<? default: ?>
<span style="color:#fff"><?php echo HEADING_TITLE; ?></span> 
<?php
//  $testimonials_query_raw = "select * from " . TABLE_TESTIMONIALS_MANAGER . " where status = 1 and language_id = '" . (int)$_SESSION['languages_id'] . "' order by date_added DESC, testimonials_title";
//  $testimonials_split = new splitPageResults($testimonials_query_raw, MAX_DISPLAY_TESTIMONIALS_MANAGER_ALL_TESTIMONIALS);

  if (($testimonials_split->number_of_rows > 0) && ((PREV_NEXT_BAR_LOCATION == '1') || (PREV_NEXT_BAR_LOCATION == '3'))) {
?>


<div id="productsListingTopNumber" class="navSplitPagesResult back"><?php echo $testimonials_split->display_count(TEXT_DISPLAY_NUMBER_OF_TESTIMONIALS_MANAGER_ITEMS); ?></div>


<div id="productsListingListingTopLinks" class="navSplitPagesLinks forward"><?php echo TEXT_RESULT_PAGE . ' ' . $testimonials_split->display_links(MAX_DISPLAY_PAGE_LINKS, zen_get_all_get_params(array('page', 'info', 'x', 'y', 'main_page'))); ?></div>
<br />
<br class="clearBoth" />

<hr />

<?php
  } // split page
?>
<?php
    $testimonials = $db->Execute($testimonials_split->sql_query);
    while (!$testimonials->EOF) {
	$date_published = $testimonials->fields['date_added'];
?>


<blockquote>
<div class="testimonial">
<table width="100%" border="0" cellpadding="5">
  <tr>
    <td width="44%"><p class="back"><b><a href="<?php echo zen_href_link(FILENAME_TESTIMONIALS_MANAGER, 'testimonials_id=' . $testimonials->fields['testimonials_id']);?>"><?php echo $testimonials->fields['testimonials_title'];?></a></b></p>
    
</td>
    <td width="56%"><p class="forward"><?php if (DISPLAY_TESTIMONIALS_DATE_PUBLISHED == 'true') { echo zen_date_long($date_published); } ?></p><br class="clearBoth" /></td>
  </tr>
  <tr>
    <td><?php
   if (($testimonials->fields[testimonials_image]) != ('')) {
     $testimonials_image = zen_image(DIR_WS_IMAGES . $testimonials->fields[testimonials_image], $testimonials->fields['testimonials_title'], TESTIMONIAL_IMAGE_WIDTH, TESTIMONIAL_IMAGE_HEIGHT);
?><?php /*if (($testimonials->fields['testimonials_url']) == ('http://') or ($testimonials->fields['testimonials_url']) == ('')) {

echo $testimonials_image;
} else {
echo '<a href="' . $testimonials->fields['testimonials_url'] . '" target="_blank">' . $testimonials_image . '</a>';
}*/

?>
      <a href="index.php?main_page=product_info&amp;products_id=<? echo $testimonials->fields['testimonials_pid']?>"><img src="images/products/<? echo ($testimonials->fields['testimonials_pid'])?>.jpg" width="250" height="250" alt="Mark Cahill Ministries" /></a><br /><? if  ($testimonials->fields['testimonials_pid'] !=0){ 
  echo "<a href='index.php?main_page=product_info&products_id=".nl2br($testimonials->fields['testimonials_pid']."'>"); ?>     </p>
   <p><br />
     Click here for product details.</p>
   </a>
   <? } ?></td>
    <td style="font-size:16px; font-family: 'Palatino Linotype', 'Book Antiqua', Palatino, serif">&quot;<?php echo nl2br($testimonials->fields['testimonials_html_text']);?>&quot;
     <p align="right"> <span class="buttonRow back" style="text-align:right; font-size:11px;"><?php echo TESTIMONIALS_BY; ?> <?php echo $testimonials->fields[testimonials_name] . $testimonial_info; ?></span></p></td>
  </tr>
  <tr>
    <td colspan="2"></td>
    </tr>

</table>

   <?php
   }
?>
  
</div>
</blockquote>

<?php
$testimonial_info = '';
if ( (!empty($testimonials->fields[testimonials_city])) and (!empty($testimonials->fields[testimonials_country])) ) {
$testimonial_info .= NAME_SEPARATOR . $testimonials->fields[testimonials_city] . CITY_STATE_SEPARATOR . $testimonials->fields[testimonials_country];
}
if ( (!empty($testimonials->fields[testimonials_city])) and (empty($testimonials->fields[testimonials_country])) ) {
$testimonial_info .= NAME_SEPARATOR . $testimonials->fields[testimonials_city];
}
if ( (empty($testimonials->fields[testimonials_city])) and (!empty($testimonials->fields[testimonials_country])) ) {
$testimonial_info .= NAME_SEPARATOR . $testimonials->fields[testimonials_country];
}
if (!empty($testimonials->fields[testimonials_company])) {
$testimonial_info .= NAME_SEPARATOR . $testimonials->fields[testimonials_company];
}
?>


<br class="clearBoth" />
<br />
<hr />

<?php
      $testimonials->MoveNext();
      }
?>

<?php
  if (($testimonials_split->number_of_rows > 0) && ((PREV_NEXT_BAR_LOCATION == '2') || (PREV_NEXT_BAR_LOCATION == '3'))) {
?>

<div id="productsListingBottomNumber" class="navSplitPagesResult back"><?php echo $testimonials_split->display_count(TEXT_DISPLAY_NUMBER_OF_TESTIMONIALS_MANAGER_ITEMS); ?></div>

<div id="productsListingListingBottomLinks" class="navSplitPagesLinks forward"><?php echo TEXT_RESULT_PAGE . ' ' . $testimonials_split->display_links(MAX_DISPLAY_PAGE_LINKS, zen_get_all_get_params(array('page', 'info', 'x', 'y', 'main_page'))); ?></div>

<?php
  } // split page
?>
<br class="clearBoth" />
<div class="buttonRow back"><?php echo zen_back_link() . zen_image_button(BUTTON_IMAGE_BACK, BUTTON_BACK_ALT) . '</a>'; ?></div>
<div class="buttonRow forward"><a href="<?php echo zen_href_link(FILENAME_TESTIMONIALS_ADD, '', 'SSL'); ?>"><?php echo zen_image_button(BUTTON_IMAGE_TESTIMONIALS, BUTTON_TESTIMONIALS_ADD_ALT); ?></a></div>

<br class="clearBoth" />
</div><? } ?>

One thing that jumps out at me from just the formatting is that short tags are used (<? ) Instead of <?php don't know what you mean by going haywire nor am I sure if other parts of the code use the short tag or not. Sorry didn't follow through the logic yet, kinda got stopped in my tracks when I saw the short tags and other missing case statements.