Product Type Book (by moku)

[Darkwander]

Hi darkwander

perhaps you will have to remove the whole commented out section I mention.. if your php is vague p.m me, I can send you the modded file.

I uploaded the files to the site that is running live and it worked fine, maybe the files didnt extract right the first time or something..

Just a question in the section "Admin-Product Type-Info Page Layout options :: Product - Book"

Is there suppose to be options like in Product-General, i have nothing in the list.

[billc108]

I have encountered a strange problem.
I did nothing on the CSS file, but by itself, the display of the web site got distorted.
The font size increased (both Firefox and IE)and the site started getting displayed on left of screen by itself (internet Explorer).
The web site is
www.saibookstore.com

My initial guess is that one of your files - most likely your CSS file - didn't upload fully, so you're only getting the first portion of your styles. Try uploading the files in question again.

Websites typically don't change "by themselves". Either a file got corrupted (in which case you should replace it with a good copy) or someone made a change somewhere that had unintended consequences.

It's possible that a change was made somewhere in your CSS or elsewhere that accidentally threw everything after it off.

[johnk]

Hi hareslade,

I've been Internet deprived for the past year, but i'm so happy to see that you've kept this thread open both with your code contributions and advice. With 33,000 views, it's certainly an active thread with many thanks having to go to you.

I downloaded your little package today (for 1.3.7) and it seems to work fine. I am however, raising a question I asked way back in this thread. So far back in fact, I couldn't find it!

The Author's listing in Admin has a very large space to write a lovely Author profile with photo. I am unable to find out how the general public can access that profile. It's so important. it's like the sleeve, or back cover of a good book. The authors are as important as the book(s) themselves, and I really do want my visitors to be able to see their profiles.

I notice that when I click on "Author" in the product listing, it shows all books by the same author. That's fantastic, but how can I get my visitors to also read about the author?

Kindest regards and thanks once again for continuing to keep this thread well and truely alive.

John

[hareslade]

johnk yes you are right... click on an author in the left sidebox..
http://hareslade.com/zc137_t4bk/inde...k_authors_id=1

Right hand sidebox.. but I can't for the life of remember if its in the books fileset.
It's in that demo site there though for the multilanguage (V3) book....

if its in your sidebox list in admin, its probably called 'Authors info' have a look..

[jhauser42]

I know this has probably been in here before, but I must have missed it in all of the pages somewhere.

I have installed this mod and it is working great but for one problem.

I have the author and genre sideboxes set to show only when in the books category and they usually work great. The problem I am having is that if there is more than 1 item listed in the same category I do not get a list of them, but instead get sent back to the home page. Right now there are only 6 books listed and the only genre with more than 1 is the classics.

Has anyone seen this or have any idea how to fix it?

Thanks,
Joe

[Darkwander]

Greetings:

Once the mod is installed, the following line is added to every product that is listed including product that are not under "Product - book"

ISBN: <Model Number>

This comes up when you click on a category. for example;

9 Inches of Pure Pleasure
Powerful vibrating 9" beaded ######## plug.
ISBN: AT0040

Is there anyway to remove the line "ISBN: AT0040" from that listing page..


Below is a link to what i mean, keep in mind that you must be 18+ to view..
http://www.delightsoftheflesh.com/st...ndex&cPath=214

[hareslade]

jhauser...
let's hope it is not a bug..
when there is more than one product in the list, it uses a product listing template.

Guessing a most likely cause..there is a 'redirect' of the listing page, so if you were php testing using 'echo' to show debug texts in the listing file, then if an echo you used, is still live in the listing file, that effect is exactly what you get, it returns to home page because the final page redirect fails.

Let me know if thats a wrong guess

[hareslade]

darkwander
yes I noticed extra ISBN/publisher in ordinary products, here is a fix
http://www.hareslade.com/zc125/downl...ST_JAN2008.zip
I will add to the fix list on the V3 download at my site

Note, this fix incorporates the V4 system for getting book product type i.d

What...V4?

I'm issuing book V4 specifically for zencart 1.3.8a 'shortly', I'm still testing it on my demo sites. If anyone ** desperately ** needs V4 p.m me, I can only zip the main files folder though, I haven't done the 'grid' option mods for 1.3.8 just yet.

V4 is just undergoing multilanguage test now, single language mode looks ok.

[jhauser42]

jhauser...
let's hope it is not a bug..
when there is more than one product in the list, it uses a product listing template.

Guessing a most likely cause..there is a 'redirect' of the listing page, so if you were php testing using 'echo' to show debug texts in the listing file, then if an echo you used, is still live in the listing file, that effect is exactly what you get, it returns to home page because the final page redirect fails.

Let me know if thats a wrong guess

Thanks for trying to help. Unfortunately, I am fairly new to this and do not have a great knowledge of php. I really don't understand what this means. I am using this books mod as it was written. The only other thing that may be affecting it is that I am using the column layout grid contribution. Beyond that I am not sure, so I guess I will have to learn more php and just keep troubleshooting and turn those items off for now.


Thanks again,
Joe

[hareslade]

hi jhauser42
my condolences for the grid part not working, did you try re-uploading just the files.. sometimes transfer can get interrupted

Incidentally I am still working on V4, the htmlarea textual editor open source project is I notice now defunct?

And I'm having probs getting htmlarea to work in a multi language environment, **even in the normal product type** collect info page. In fact, thats not uncommon, I see other posts with those problems as from zencart V1.3.5.

So I'm trying FckEditor and TinyMCE, to see if they work better.