Product Type Book (by moku)

[MarW]

Hi tekram!

I guess it shouldn't be a problem, provided that your database settings are correct. Which means, that you use a charset (UTF-8), that can store both english and arabic characters.

Then maybe you could use the title field for arabic and the subtitle for english.

[tekram]

Thanks MarW!

that is anexcelent idea. if i were to do that, would the books be searchabe by arabic and english. ie, if one pt in a search term in to the search engine, it could be put in english and arabic.
secondly, i would lke to also dispy the authors in engsh and arabic. is there an easysolution to that?

[tekram]

it works!

you can searin both languages.

in terms of the authors, youan put the author names in arabic as a nickname which is displayed in parentheses with the name in english.

thanks for the advice Marw.
thanks for the mod moku.

[MarW]

I would've posted the same idea, I'm glad you figured it out yourself and it works!

[MandA Systems]

I was getting ready to write the following and found this thread...NEED HELP THOUGH:

Hello all:


I am very new to the cart and I am trying to get up and running... Everything seems ot be a breeze, except for something very important to my store.

I need to create a product type: Books

I need it to have the following fields: All the usual product stuff, AND manufacturer, size, pages, author, isbn, Style... I need these set so I can have these custom fields in every book product type.


I know nothing about doing this kind of thing... detailed help would be appreciated.

Thanks...

I don't understand this... I am using the classic theme. Will this work... Can someone talk me through installing this...

[MarW]

Hi!

It'll work if you use Zen 1.3 or any later versions. You can find instructions in the downloaded archive (readme.txt I guess).

In case you get stuck or need any help I'll be here tomorrow.

Good luck!

[tekram]

is there a way to transfer pre-existing products into book type?

ie f we already have a catalog up and products are of general type.

thanks

[MarW]

Sure, but it'll take some SQL skills to to this.

I just had a quick look at the tables, so the list may not be complete, but you'll have to do these:

- products table: update the products_type field for every product to match the Product - Book type ID in the product_types table
- link the books to the authors, genres, etc (books_to_authors, books_to_genres, books_to_languages, books_to_types)

The first step is easy, a simple SQL update, but I'm afraid you'll have the to do the second manually, as these are different for every books.

If you have lots of books and can't figure the above out yourself, PM me and I'll try to write the SQL script for you.

[MandA Systems]

I have completely destroyed my Zen Cart...

I have tried this porduct type 2 times and I cannot get it to work... I know it is my fault and lack of experience.

CAN SOMEONE PLEASE DO THE FOLLOWING FOR ME....

Is there anyway someone can take the original zen cart program... Put in the Book Product type... Zip it up, and send it to me... That way I can just upload it, install the whole thing again... and begin the customizing I need to... Just add the type to work with the default theme that comes standard with Zen Cart!

You can e-mail the file to postmaster AT mandasystems DOT com

Thanks...

[L5eoneill]

Would like to adapt your Book product type to our needed Cars type. Only need to add single values per product: Year, Mileage. So, not needing any of the author, genre, and type tables, should I cut those bits and functions out of my version? Or can they safely be ignored? Of course, would not add the extra tables for those things. But was wondering about coding in templates and other files in your package.

Want new field Year (at least) to be searchable (search on mileage??? Could happen, I suppose). Any hints on whether that would happen automatically or if not then how to make it happen?

Thank you much,
--eon--