Testimonial Manager Support Thread

[Gary777]

Hi Clyde,

First off thanks for making this mod, it saved me a lot of work!

I have scanned this thread and can't really find what I'm looking for, but since it's 50 plus pages long please pardon me if this is repetitious. I have a couple of questions/suggestions...

1) Can you point me in the right direction to make changes so required fields are optional? (my customer only wants the Name field and testimonial text required)

2) Couldn't you fill in the email address from the user's database entry if they are logged in?

My customer is super picky about the customer having to fill things in, he wants to make it as easy as possible for his customers. He has elected to only let logged in customers submit their own testimonials and we are putting a statement up that a customer can optionally email their testimonial directly to the company and the company will add the testimonial for them (this is how they do it now.)

He wants it so that if a user does add a testimonial all they absolutely need to add is their name and a few words in the testimonials text box.

Additional comments I have are that I removed the use of blockquote from your all_testimonials page and replaced it with a div that can be styled, this was more to my clients liking. Also adding a class for the fieldsets and legends may prove helpful as well since you are already instructing them to add to the sytlesheet. (please don't take this as complaining, it's a great mod... these are just suggestions that may make it more flexible for advanced users,)

Thanks again,

Gary777

[Gary777]

Hi Again Clyde,


I did a bit more digging and found the solution to turning off the required fields (such as email )in this thread in case anyone searchs how to turn off email (no results were returned):
http://www.zen-cart.com/forum/showpo...&postcount=529

I also came across the additional page specific style sheets and see how you are handling them but don't remember seeing any references in the readme file, you might want to add that in the future.

I also noticed that when I logged in and added a comment my email field was filled in, but I don't know if it was Firefox filling in or your app??? Can you confirm?

After playing around a bit more and thinking more on it it dawns on me that you can auto fill everything but the testimonial title and text if the user is logged in... I am still learning the structure of Zen Cart and this is just beyond my reach at this time (and the amount of time I can afford to devote to it right now) but if you'd be kind enough to point me in the right direction I'll take a stab at it and send the results to you (with detailed steps) so you can include it in the next release... If you have time of course.

Thanks again Clyde, this is great!

Gary777

[clydejones]

Hi Again Clyde,


I also noticed that when I logged in and added a comment my email field was filled in, but I don't know if it was Firefox filling in or your app??? Can you confirm?

After playing around a bit more and thinking more on it it dawns on me that you can auto fill everything but the testimonial title and text if the user is logged in... I am still learning the structure of Zen Cart and this is just beyond my reach at this time (and the amount of time I can afford to devote to it right now) but if you'd be kind enough to point me in the right direction I'll take a stab at it and send the results to you (with detailed steps) so you can include it in the next release... If you have time of course.

Thanks again Clyde, this is great!

Gary777

Yes, this is the default behavior for Testimonial Manager.
If the user is logged in the Name and E-Mail fields will be filled in.
Since the other fields are optional and not everyone would use them, they are not set up to be filled in automatically.

[Gary777]

Thanks Clyde!

This is just awesome!

Gary777

[Marco_K]

Hi Clyde,

I've installated this module also but I see nothing on the left column on my homepage.

Before uploading I copied the directories English and named them Dutch, then i've renamed all directories YOUR_TEMPLETE to PC01 and upload it all.

Put in the SQL code. And last made this module visible in the Sidebox.

When i go to my homepage and look at the left column i do not see this Testimonial module.

Did i forgot something of what else went wrong?

[Marco_K]

Hi Clyde,

I've installated this module also but I see nothing on the left column on my homepage.

Before uploading I copied the directories English and named them Dutch, then i've renamed all directories YOUR_TEMPLETE to PC01 and upload it all.

Put in the SQL code. And last made this module visible in the Sidebox.

When i go to my homepage and look at the left column i do not see this Testimonial module.

Did i forgot something of what else went wrong?

Nevermind. I got it working.
I added a new Testimonial from the admin page. After that the side box appeared.

[dmagic]

Hi
can you tell me which files change for HEBREW not english ?
Hebrew its RTL not LTR

Thank you so much

[clydejones]

Hi
can you tell me which files change for HEBREW not english ?
Hebrew its RTL not LTR

Thank you so much

If you're talking about the entire Zen Cart installation, I believe it would be in your includes/languages/hebrew.php

[dmagic]

If you're talking about the entire Zen Cart installation, I believe it would be in your includes/languages/hebrew.php

just change the english.php to hebrew.php ?

Thank you

[clydejones]

just change the english.php to hebrew.php ?

Thank you

Why not just download the hebrew language pack available here:
www.zen-cart.com/index.php?main_page=product_contrib_info&cPath=40_46&products_id=390