Dynamic Price Updater

[dharrison]

Hi MC

Sorry that do not have all of the details together yet; however, I did today go to that product and saw the spinning graphic did not replace the existing values, but instead was shown off to the side.

The live site at present hasn't been updated. Everything I am doing is on my test server.

So, first things first, currently the module returns only one price, either with tax included or without tax included based on the settings for the display of price on the catalog side. Further, the returned price is expected to take the place of the associated product's price value based on identifying the id for the html parameter that is to hold that price.

Yes that's correct. And it does work when I updated this site to 1.55f but on the updated 1.5.6c the prices for Inc and Ex VAT show normally, then when the page is loaded, they are superseded by the Updater (was labelled At least, I renamed it price).

The DPU class could return two fields instead of just one to provide both the taxed and non-taxed value, with the javascript to process not only the returned value, but to also identify to what location it should be assigned (thought I remembered the module supporting display of the information in either sequence of non-taxed first with taxed to follow or vice versa). These additional "options" may introduce additional classes/ids of concern to handle in different ways... I know that at one point I had begun to incorporate the likes of that module or an older one, but other aspects of the software were more important and I had to put that aside at least as a solution for all versus incorporating a limited correction.

Yes that's exactly what the current site does and I would love to be able to recreate this for the new site. The launch is pretty much ready to go, except for this and a separate issue.

I hope you can help. :)

[mc12345678]

Hi MC



The live site at present hasn't been updated. Everything I am doing is on my test server.



Yes that's correct. And it does work when I updated this site to 1.55f but on the updated 1.5.6c the prices for Inc and Ex VAT show normally, then when the page is loaded, they are superseded by the Updater (was labelled At least, I renamed it price).



Yes that's exactly what the current site does and I would love to be able to recreate this for the new site. The launch is pretty much ready to go, except for this and a separate issue.

I hope you can help. :)

Looked again at the source code generated on the page and see that the current display doesn't have discreet divisions between each of the text items, so just returning different values for tax/non-tax. It appears, that instead would need to return the full text to be displayed as a single value.

To try to do that, I went to search for a module that expressed compatibility with any recent version of Zen Cart. While I suspect the one I found would be compatible, I wanted to ask what module is being used so that perhaps I could use its results for the returned value instead of trying to do some sort of javascript muddling.

[dharrison]

What I had been using was Dyanmic price Updater and https://www.zen-cart.com/downloads.p...=597&styleid=4 (which I know is a bit out of date).

It does show on my test site



and then when the page is fully loaded, it replaces with this



The piricing for both did update when options/quantities were changed.

I hope this helps. Please do let me know if you would prefer to see the site live.