Better Together Contribution Support Thread

[swguy]

Please click on Help in the Admin screen for Better Together and see FAQ question number 2.

[Steven300]

Fantastic mod. I'm confident that this is going to help me with sales. My only suggestion (this might have already been mentioned) is that the mod should detect whether a product name starts with a vowel or not. At the moment, it says "get a". Obviously this could be manually changed to "get an" but then it wouldn't work for products not starting with a vowel. I got around this by changing it to "get the", which seems to work ok, but I think "a" and "an" would be better. Just an idea anyway. Great mod, thanks.

[ashishgandhi]

hey thanx for yr repy.....

i have one more query...at time you r providing function for buy 2 get 1 free, now suppose how can i make it buy x(number of items) get y(number of items) for free....

do i have to make new function for this or i have to customize the existing twoforoneproduct() function.

hope to get yr promp reply
thanx

[hedera]

I've now read through this entire thread and haven't seen my specific problem addressed. I'm building a site on ZenCart which was previously built from scratch using FrontPage and Miva Merchant. The function I'm trying to put in, which brought me to BT, is:

We have one product on which we say, "Free with any book order." Our catalog is very small. We have 3 categories:

1 - Books (5 items)
2 - Brochures (11 items)
3 - Other (3 items)

The "Free with any book order" product is #16 in category 2. After carefully reading your doc, I concluded that the appropriate call was

add_prod_to_cat(1,16,”%”,100);

but when I loaded this to my site and test in the shopping cart, I get no discount at all. The crazy thing is, my first pass was backward - add_prod_to_cat(16,1,"%",100) - and the discount worked, but on the wrong item - it discounted the category 1 item.

The statement I think is correct doesn't discount at all. Before you ask, I've established that the value in master_categories_id is NOT zero. What should I be doing?? I want product 16 in category 2 to be free with purchase of ANY item in category 1.

[swguy]

There is no "buy category 1, get free product 16 (cat_to_prod) in Better Together. Since your catalog is small, you can do 5 prod_to_prods for each product in category 1 to product 16.

Scott

[cosmocanuck]

Hi there! I'm trying to install Better Together but - after carefully putting all the files where they're supposed to go, and allowing for the name of my custom installation - it does not show up as an item on Order Total Modules in my admin.

What might possibly be the reason for this? I'm eager to get started with cross-product discounts...

Many thanks!
adam

[swguy]

Remember that the installation is only step 1; you need to configure the setup() routine to add your pairings. Click the help from admin to learn how to do it. If the problem you're having pertains to pairing between categories, read about categories in the Better Together FAQ.

[cosmocanuck]

Whoops, following up on my previous post, I see that BetterTogether does appear on my cart's sidebar, but when I click it I get a string of error messages warning of missing files:

Warning: main(includes/languages/english/modules/order_total/ot_better_together.php) [function.main]: failed to open stream: No such file or directory in /home/wholebei/public_html/shop/includes/modules/pages/bettertogether_promo/header_php.php on line 24

Warning: main() [function.include]: Failed opening 'includes/languages/english/modules/order_total/ot_better_together.php' for inclusion (include_path='.:/usr/php4/lib/php:/usr/local/php4/lib/php') in /home/wholebei/public_html/shop/includes/modules/pages/bettertogether_promo/header_php.php on line 24

Warning: main(includes/modules/order_total/ot_better_together.php) [function.main]: failed to open stream: No such file or directory in /home/wholebei/public_html/shop/includes/modules/pages/bettertogether_promo/header_php.php on line 25

Warning: main() [function.include]: Failed opening 'includes/modules/order_total/ot_better_together.php' for inclusion (include_path='.:/usr/php4/lib/php:/usr/local/php4/lib/php') in /home/wholebei/public_html/shop/includes/modules/pages/bettertogether_promo/header_php.php on line 25

Fatal error: Cannot instantiate non-existent class: ot_better_together in /home/wholebei/public_html/shop/includes/modules/pages/bettertogether_promo/header_php.php on line 26

I can't figure out what this is trying to tell me though. Everything seems to be in the right place....

adam

[cosmocanuck]

Thanks for the reply Scott! I thought I was following the install instructions to the letter: since I don't have a previous install of BT, I went to step 3, installing all the files in the appropriate places, and then read this as the next step:

4. Login to admin and in Modules->Order Total you will see 'Better Together' listed along with all the other modules available.

Nothing about configuring a setup() routine... that's the code I add to my template to enable the linkages, right? Do I have to do that first before BT will even appear on my site or admin?

As for "clicking the help from admin", ummm... what help from admin? My admin? Oh, I'm so discouraged... but hanging in there!

adam

[swguy]

The introductory material before the install instructions explains how setup works.

If you don't see a help link on Better Together in admin under modules->order totals, you have an old version; please upgrade.

The direct link to the help is
http://www.thatsoftwareguy.com/zenca..._together.html

Yes, you have to add linkages to the setup before you will see it in your order total on checkout page 2. You don't get a discount until you specify some pairings. Please spend an hour or two and read the whole web page and README file. This is an advanced mod and not something you can just do in five minutes.