How Did You Hear About Us? Referrals Mod [Support Thread]

[gogolf]

Thank you.

I'll PM you details tomorrow.

gogolf,

Please PM me if you would like for me to take a swing at installing this mod on your server. I would need a fresh install of zencart - with no files changed - and none of the files in this mod on the server.

[tatiana77]

Hi guys,
Please post any findings if you come up with a fix gogolf/stellarweb.

In the meantime, this is what I've noticed of late: 3 mods are not working for me - all three are admin mods (this one, user tracking and advanced stats)

I have changed the name to my Admin directory for security purposes.
Could this be a cause?

Good luck may the force be with you

Tatiana

PS I'm on the showcase come stop by!

[hllight]

I am using the applezen template. I have also installed the Ty Package tracker and customer tax exempt modules. Any help would be appreciated.

I get the following error in ADMIN> CUSTOMERS> ORDERS:
Parse error: syntax error, unexpected T_CASE in /home/aaadi3/public_html/admin/orders.php on line 195

Also when a customer submits a new login, the following error results:
[FONT=Times New Roman]Warning[/FONT]: Cannot modify header information - headers already sent by (output started at /home/aaadi3/public_html/includes/languages/english/create_account.php:110) in /home/aaadi3/public_html/includes/functions/functions_general.php on line 44

[tatiana77]

StellarWeb - Here is something that might or might not help. I was having problems with my Improved Attributes Controller Mod and someone helped out by posting an updated attributes_controller.php file. I know it's a completely different mod, but I noticed a specific set of strings while doing winMerge... seems like there was a 'code override' that fixed everything and now it works.

Do you think this would help for the referrals mod? I personally no the bare minimum for coding, but I'm trying to do some detective work to help fix this problem . I've attached this file, maybe you can gain some info.

Thanks,
Tatiana

[lina0962]

Hello,

I followed everything step to install the "how do you hear from us" module. Everthing looks fine except I cannot find the "how do you hear from us" box?

I didn't see it in the register page. Did I miss anything?

By the way, the site is :http://www.loveinrose.com/index.php?...create_account

Lina

[gogolf]

I THINK I may have "stumbled" on to part of the problem:

I was reading over the early posts in this thread. Look at 7th July 2006, 09:46 PM posted by narsaw. They said, if I may quote "Turns that I was using and 'override' (includes/modules/my_template/create_accoutns.php file which I neglected to update with the inclues/modules/create_account.php from the contribution. Works beautifully."

So following the scheme I've been using for my customized Zen installation I then inserted a "custom" folder under the modules folder, like this:
includes/modules/custom/create_account.php

I then created a new customer and used the drop down box when you get to the bottom of the online form and choose "google" for instance from the default sources that came with this referral mod.

I then looked in my admin/customers screen and saw, low and behold, under TABLE_HEADING_REFERRED_BY there was "google" !

However when I ran the admin/reports/Customers Referral Report nothing was reported.

So at least half of the battle is won. Half a Zen is better then no Zen.

This makes me wonder if whether the issue or problem takes us back to the basics of the over- ride system that seems to be nailed all over the place and appears to the source of our problems in many cases; refer to this article on over-rides:
https://www.zen-cart.com/tutorials/index.php?article=36

If this is the solution (testing or logic will tell us) then what needs to be done (maybe) would be to put a YOUR_CUSTOM... folder in the folders that comes with this mod for each file that requires it so people like me who don't read instructions will get a hint.

One suggestion I will make and I'm sure its been covered as well, whenever you put a mod'd file in your store you may want to make a note in the top of the file so you know what you are working with. Stellar I'm not picking here but for example the header of the create_account.php file should have something in bold text or a note in the copyright section so the user can quickly tell what version of the file they are using, maybe something like this:

/**
* create_account header_php.php
*
* @package modules
* @copyright Copyright 2003-2006 Zen Cart Development Team
* @copyright Portions Copyright 2003 osCommerce
* @license http://www.zen-cart.com/license/2_0.txt GNU Public License V2.0
* @version $Id: create_account.php 4825 2006-10-23 22:25:11Z drbyte $
* MOD FOR HOW DID THEY HEAR ABOUT US.. BY STELLAR XX/XX/2007,
REVISION XXXX.

Just a suggestion.

I think I'll open another beer (too dark out to golf) and go back to files and put a "custom" folder in every folder this referral mod affects,just for giggles, to see what happens.

Stay Tuned!

[tatiana77]

go go gogolf!

I'll check it out, nice detective work. I'll repost if something happens (or doesn't)

Tat

[tatiana77]

Ah ha! Good work detective.

I've got the reference for google showing up.

Hmm, I guess I put the create_account file in the includes/modules instead of my includes/modules/custom folder... well well.

As for the admin/reports/Customers Referral Report not reporting, nothing is showing up for me either... would this be only for the discount codes? I don't remember if this is part of the mod... sorry.

I also tested the 'other' source and typed ABC and when I checked Admin/Extras/Referral Sources, it just put it under 'other', which is ok because when I looked at Admin/Customers/Customers, ABC was written next to the appropriate user name. (as well as Google for the first 'customer' name)

Well , I have to hand it to you, from all the difficulties with the mods, this has been the best result.

Stellarweb when I opened up the zipfile, the directory associated with it is includes/modules, I would change it to includes/modules/custom.

[sigh of relief, pats gogolf on the back]

[cracks open a beer too!]

Tatiana

[tatiana77]

Hmmmm for some reason the How did you hear about fields are mandatory to create an account? That's really imposing I would think. Any way to change this?

Also, I entered "parents" as a discount code, and it showed up in admin/reports/customer referral reports (but nothing happens when I click on report...)

And it doesn't show up in admin/customers/customers... this is maybe a conflict with create_account.php... I'll check it. are you in the same boat?

Tat

[stellarweb]

gogolf,

Sounds like you are well on your way to figuring out the problem as it pertains to your site. GREAT JOB!

You may want to make sure you are using the updated admin/includes/languages/english/customers.php file with the mod that will take away the "TABLE_HEADING_REFERRED_BY" text and make it say Referred By

The only file that was suggested to put in the overrides directory was the includes\templates\YOUR-TEMPLATE\templates\tpl_modules_create_account.php - which I did put in a YOUR TEMPLATE folder in the mod files.

Not sure why your site is requiring you to put the other file in an override directory - because it works fine NOT in an override directory on all the sites I have installed it on ... but hey... who cares as long as it works!!

As for putting info in the header of the file - I think that is a great idea for each individual to do if they wish. Especially if they have several different mods that "modify" the same file - so to put those in that header area might be a good tracking idea for others! I put notes in my dreamweaver program on the different files - just to keep track of what is going on with the zencart websites I build for my clients.

The report you mentioned will not reflect the referrals from this mod. You will find this information under EXTRAS - Referrals and Referral Sources