Creating an add-on "product type book" for ZC 1.5

[philou]

Thanks philou for your reply, i was travelling so the delay,

my site details are as under
site name backup.sultan-chand.com

configurations
1. Categories, about 12
2. All categories and products are "type books"
3. Used Authors as authors ,
4. One book can have many authors
5. Used Genre as Subjects, One book has only one subject
6. used Series is for classes, currently one book can fall only in one series
7. used Publisher for Boards, Currently one book will fall only for one board


Problem area
Problem 1. The "text_all_music_genre"
select Anil Kr. Sharma, from authors in the book filter box, Anil Kr. Sharma writes books both for maths and mathematics Genre, so this problem occurs only if the author has books in more than one genre

I see the problem. Currently BookX has not been written to work with other filters which are not BookX itself, like alphabethical sorting. However the problem is only superficial, because BookX and the other filters both put the filtering in the Url and currently the two Urls are not combined, the replace each other.

Example:
This gives you books by Author "Anil Sharma":
http://backup.sultan-chand.com/index...kx_author_id=3

Using the filter "Mathematics" writes this URL, but loses the author ("&bookx_author_id=3"), so it shows nothing since there is no longer an author selected to filter:
http://backup.sultan-chand.com/index...ha_filter_id=0

This Url gives you the desired result, combining "Anil Sharma" and "Mathematics", but the popup used for filtering is not writing it this way:
http://backup.sultan-chand.com/index...ha_filter_id=0

I will try to fix this in the next version (this will be some weeks). In the meantime you can only remove the filtering option from your site.

The "text_all_music_genre" can be fixed very easily in the language files. You can put it into "english.php" right inside "includes/languages" or whatever language file you want to use.

define('TEXT_ALL_MUSIC_GENRE', 'Whatever you want the text to be');

Problem 2. the previous next does not work in listing
select Anita Devraj from Authors in the book filter box, 12 books wil be listed, Click on any one of them, details of the book will be listed with a previous next menu, and will always show, "Books+2" the first category and the count as 5, which is the count of the first category
and teh previous next butoon will not be activated. clicking on the product list button, will list the products under the first category "Books for +2"

Correct. I noticed this in my development here as well. It should be working in the next version of BookX. Until then you can only remove the "Previous / Next" button, so visitors have to go back to the listing to see another book.

Problem 3. Filter by alphabet does not work
Select any option of the filter, means, any author, any genre etc.. the books are then listed, and if you try to apply any filter of "filter result by items starting with", does not work and takes you to home page

In fact the answer to this is written in the answer for problem no. 1
They should bothe be fixed at the same time.

I have been using the book version on zen cart 1.3.8 and it is working smoothly except with a few bugs. I wanted to change to Zen cart 1.5.1 and use your bookx, any help that i can provide by rigorous testing, you may let me know

You may check out the sites at backup.sultan-chand.com and teh original at sultan-chand.com
i have loaded two themes on the backup.sultan-chand.com and can give you the admin password if you want, the books are more or less the same as in sultan-chand.com

Look forward to your input

No need for admin passwords for now :)
It seems that you foudn a way to show the book title and subtitle, which was your problem earlier.
I have not tested the plugin on 1.3.8. It may work, but then again it may not.

Sorry, but for the moment I can not provide better asnwers than to turn off the filters and at least you have a working website...

Regards,
p.

[Desmat]

thanks await your newer versions,
and await to offer you some cofee and dougnuts :)

the problem of text_all_musice_genre, is not only of writing the definition in the english file, but also, the list it drops , does not filter, which i presume is that filters again are not incorporated as of now, so the issue, right
anyway cheers, and once again eagerly await your newer versions and wish you luck

[philou]

The changes should not be too difficult and I am hoping to have some time in Agust to continue work on Bookx.
I will let you know.

Regards,
p.

[DMLyons]

Dear DML,

are you 100% certain that you are using the version 0.9.3Beta from Sourceforge? ( http://sourceforge.net/projects/zencartbookx )
I have downloaded the package from there again myself just be sure there is no mistake on my end and these lines are definitely different in the file tpl_product_bookx_info_display.php that comes with 0.9.3 from there?

Regards,
p.

Yes, it's the first installation, but no...apparently, it's NOT 9.3. It's 9.1. Head desk. No wonder I'm having problems. So, I guess the question is... What do I have to do to change from 9.1 to 9.3?

DML

[DMLyons]

Okay...I've updated. The ONLY problem I still see is down in the bio box and below it, where the author name should be is %s: Honestly, if that's my only issue, I can live with that bit of code, since all the other author name areas are fine. Thanks for your help.

DML

[philou]

Hi DML,

I'm away from my development setup just now, so I can't check. The "%s" is most certainly the leftover of a string which is supposed to show the authors name, like this: "The name of this author is %s" and then the author name is inserted instead.of placeholder %s. i can't say right now what the problem there is, so if you can live with it for about two more weeks I will check it out. But i will have to know exactly where in the page the problem is...

Regards,
P.

[amdad]

Hi Philou,
I am very happy to install a great addons (New add-on "product type book" for ZC 1.5) on my website. this addon work fine on my website.
But i need to another two feature (1) how can i display list of all publisher in one page? (2) how can is display all category list in one page?
please help me
my site running on:
(1) zen cart version-1.5.1
(2) thi addon is new installed
(3) my server is linux server
(4) my php version is 5.4
(5) my operating system is windows 8

[philou]

Hi amdad,

I'm happy to hear you like the plugin :)
The feature "publisher list" is planned and will not take very long to implement, but it is not currently finished. I am working on the new version of BookX in these days, and if I find that the "publisher list" can easily be inserted in the current version 0.9.3beta then I will put the "publisher list" files up on sourceforge and let you know. ( If user DESMAT who posted here previously is reading this, I will do the same for you and the "filter" issue which is not implemented in 0.9.3. )

Concerning your problem (2) "display all category list in one page":
If I understand correctly, you wish to have a center page with the same content of the sidebox "category listing", showing the names of categories as a menu on the side. If this is indeed what you want then I would think there must be plugins for this functionality. The way I see it, this view would not display any information coming from the BookX plugin, since it only lists the categories as you created them in the admin backend. Therefore there is nothing the BookX plugin could do..?

Best regards,
p.

[Desmat]

Hi DML,

I'm away from my development setup just now, so I can't check. The "%s" is most certainly the leftover of a string which is supposed to show the authors name, like this: "The name of this author is %s" and then the author name is inserted instead.of placeholder %s. i can't say right now what the problem there is, so if you can live with it for about two more weeks I will check it out. But i will have to know exactly where in the page the problem is...

Regards,
P.

hi Philou
I am anxiously waiting for you implementing the filters, the plugin is working perfectly with just the hiccups of the filters

[philou]

Hi Desmat,

it's noted and I will move this up in priority, so you have it soon.

Regards,
p.