News & Article Management [Support]

[seanymph]

Hi there everyone,

I have 1.3.8a installed with bookshelf template and I have also installed quiet a few add on modules.

I was just wondering if anyone has installed this to a 1.3.8a cart and if they have what changes were made.

I am really still learning all of this and I dont want to install it and then find it doesn't work and I can not find the coding that needs to be changed.

Thanks in advanced

[giuly]

# Configuration
DELETE from configuration_group WHERE configuration_key = DISPLAY_NEWS_SUMMARY;
DELETE from configuration_group WHERE configuration_key = DISPLAY_NEWS_SUMMARY_DAYS;
DELETE from configuration_group WHERE configuration_key = DISPLAY_NEWS_SUMMARY_LENGTH;
DELETE from configuration_group WHERE configuration_key = NEWS_COMMENTS_REQUIRE_CUSTOMER;
DELETE from configuration_group WHERE configuration_key = ENTRY_NEWS_NAME_MIN_LENGTH;
DELETE from configuration_group WHERE configuration_key = ENTRY_NEWS_COMMENTS_MIN_LENGTH;
DELETE from configuration_group WHERE configuration_key = NEWS_COMMENTS_EMAIL_ADMIN_NOTICE;
DELETE from configuration_group_id WHERE configuration_group_title = "News & Articles Management";
# Table structure for table news_articles 
DROP TABLE IF EXISTS news_articles;

# Table structure for table news_articles_text
DROP TABLE IF EXISTS news_articles_text;

# Table structure for table news_authors
DROP TABLE IF EXISTS news_authors;

# Table structure for table news_comments
DROP TABLE IF EXISTS news_comments;

# Table structure for table news_comments_description
DROP TABLE IF EXISTS news_comments_description;

There's your remove SQL code. I still say you can just LEAVE IT there since the database tables for the news don't interfere with anything and aren't referenced outside of the news script. But it's your call.

This all assumes you use the DEFAULT installation tables. If you changed your tables to something else... You have to modify the table names above to the appropriate ones.

thank you very much and sorry because I don't understand all very well I am italian, so sorry for english, now I understood and also thanks for sql uninstall, ok but I leave the sql that I will install.

Thank you a lot

[vanson]

Hi there everyone,

I have 1.3.8a installed with bookshelf template and I have also installed quiet a few add on modules.

I was just wondering if anyone has installed this to a 1.3.8a cart and if they have what changes were made.

I am really still learning all of this and I dont want to install it and then find it doesn't work and I can not find the coding that needs to be changed.

Thanks in advanced

I have it installe on mysite www.bagreplica4u.com and you can see that in the middle of the page , the" recent zencart news" and header are overlapped. I wonder if anyone could help. thanks in advance.

[retched]

I have it installe on mysite www.bagreplica4u.com and you can see that in the middle of the page , the" recent zencart news" and header are overlapped. I wonder if anyone could help. thanks in advance.

I'm in the middle of fixing that myself for my page. Seems as though there's a conflict with the CSS involved in the news poster. What I can suggest is to make two columns in the main box like what I did. One column can be a image highlighting specials and deals while the other will post your news.

The following is based on the default installation:

<table width="100%" border="0">
<tr>
<td valign="top" width="50%"><a href="http://www.lulu.com/content/466605"><img src="images/large/e-start-book.gif" alt="get your manual today" title="Have you got yours yet? Join the 1000’s of Zen Cart users that have bought the only comprehensive owners manual !" /></a>
<p>This content is located in the file at: <code> /languages/english/html_includes/YOUR_TEMPLATE/define_main_page.php</code></p>
<p>You can quickly edit this content via Admin->Tools->Define Pages Editor, and select define_main_page from the pulldown.</p>
<p><strong>NOTE: Always backup the files in<code> /languages/english/html_includes/your_template</code></strong></p></td>
<td width="50%" valign="top"><?php include(DIR_WS_MODULES . zen_get_module_directory(FILENAME_NEWS_SUMMARY_MODULE)); ?><td></tr></table>

[retched]

Hi there everyone,

I have 1.3.8a installed with bookshelf template and I have also installed quiet a few add on modules.

I was just wondering if anyone has installed this to a 1.3.8a cart and if they have what changes were made.

I am really still learning all of this and I dont want to install it and then find it doesn't work and I can not find the coding that needs to be changed.

Thanks in advanced

I'm running it myself on 1.3.8a and see no major problems or changes that need to be done. Just fair warning that if you changed your database table names you need to manually update them in the SQL patch before you are able to use it.

There's also the bit of CSS in the front page but something tells me that given a week I can fix it, faster if someone else can look before I do.

[giuly]

sorry I'm trying to install this mod, but I don't try to upload
the three files via ftp
tpl_news_comments_default.php
tpl_news_article_default.php
tpl_news_archive_default.php

contained in
zen cart folder
includes>template>template_default>templates


instead I try to open and upload
tpl_news_default.php

it is VERY STRANGE, and so these three files I don't try to upload via ftp.....
Please...

[giuly]

it is incredible, also for 2 images files in
admin/includes/languages/english/images/buttons it doesn't upload.

All the rest of files go correct

[giuly]

can you reupload these files here?
Please

[vanson]

I'm running it myself on 1.3.8a and see no major problems or changes that need to be done. Just fair warning that if you changed your database table names you need to manually update them in the SQL patch before you are able to use it.

There's also the bit of CSS in the front page but something tells me that given a week I can fix it, faster if someone else can look before I do.

I agree with you that there is some display problems in the main page, looking foward your good news to fix it

[giuly]

I'm sorry I reunzip the file with another zip software and now goes, I view and upload all files, thank you and sorry