Just another Cross-Sell mod (support thread)

[lankeeyankee]

I'm writing a new version of this module with some add features that I need to justify if it is worth it (in other words, will these features add benefit to you?)
Those are:
cross sell product to product (old),
product to category,
category to category,
category to product

I need to see if it is worth it or now, reason is:
To cross sell so many ways like that we will need more than 1 queries executed to pull out the products. I will consider caching but still it will use more resources that it is now. So let me know what you think. Is this worth it?

What I would find the absolute most useful function is the ability to select a checkbox to add the cross sell items to the cart when the main item is added to the cart. I have seen other cart software do this and consider it an immense boon to usability and getting the customer the items, along with relevant attributes, they want quickly all in one go. An example of this can be found here:

http://www.mid-east.com/itemdesc.asp?ic=HPBY&eq=&Tp=

You will see the addons/accessories on the right with the checkbox to add to cart with the main item.

An even more ambitious endeavor would be to make each cross sell item ajaxified so a user could browse through another category on the same product page to select the item, complete with attributes, they want to add to the cart simultaneously. It would almost be like a frame or an iframe but using current standards compliant ajax techniques. That would be incredibly powerful!! And, it would be tremendously advanced compared to anything out there. Do you see what I mean or am I being to abstract? I can elaborate more if this is an interesting idea. I am working hard on learning coding in my spare time, but as of late I have very little spare time to devote to my studies so I am not advancing as quickly as I would like and thus am still not at the skill level to do this myself yet, but I am a very willing tester!

[mkopecky]

I just installed the "just another cross sell" on my beta site. It works fantastically and is exactly what I was looking for.

I have two questions (both of which I searched the thread for answers and didn't find, hopefully these aren't redundant):
1. I would like the cross sell box to appear on the shopping cart page as well as the product info page. Is this possible? (I tried copying the code from tpl_product_info over to the shopping cart...didn't work, but thought I would try.)
2. There is an extra space on the cross sell box title "we also recommend :" I have searched in languages, templates, etc. to find this wording so I can fix it and have been unsuccessful. Any guidance to which file I should look in would be great.

Thanks for any help. I'm sure its something easy that I'm overlooking.

-mkopecky

[jeking]

For your second question, use the "Developers Tool Kit" under tools in the admin to search for the phrase 'we also recommend'. It will tell you what files it's in so you can correct it.

[mkopecky]

Hi Jeking,
Thanks for the tip on the developers tool kit. That worked! Thanks again.

[gitskitchen]

I installed this mod on my testing site(1.38). It works greatly.

But I have one question , is there any way that I can let the cross sell items in the middle of the "I also recommend" box ?

I set Cross-Sell Products Columns per Row to 3 at Cross Sell of Configuration,it displays that one item per row at the left side .
http://www.giftskitchen.com/index.ph...products_id=95

[msmith29063]

This add-on has worked great on our site. We have an issue though. Some of the items in our store have the same product model #. (This is done for various internal reasons.)

How can this be tweaked to show the cross sell items on ALL of the products with the same model #. Right now, it only displays on the first product with that model # in the database.

Thank you for any help you can provide!

[sailsport1]

I can't seem to get the cross sell products to show on my product pages. I can get them listed in the admin but they don't show.
I ran the debug and got this:

[28-Feb-2009 20:24:47] PHP Warning: include(includes/modules/FILENAME_XSELL_PRODUCTS.php) [<a href='function.include'>function.include</a>]: failed to open stream: No such file or directory in /Applications/MAMP/htdocs/zencart/includes/templates/apple_zen/templates/tpl_modules_xsell_products.php on line 17
[28-Feb-2009 20:24:47] PHP Warning: include() [<a href='function.include'>function.include</a>]: Failed opening 'includes/modules/FILENAME_XSELL_PRODUCTS.php' for inclusion (include_path='.:/Applications/MAMP/bin/php5/lib/php') in /Applications/MAMP/htdocs/zencart/includes/templates/apple_zen/templates/tpl_modules_xsell_products.php on line 17

What am I missing?

[sailsport1]

Never mind - I found it.
I was missing the xsell_definitions.php file in extra_datafiles

[sailsport1]

OK now I can't seem to cross-sell one way.
I get :"Please input main product's id" when the one way box is checked.

[myworld20091]

hi, i got an error in admin init_yclass.php , acturally i dont know how to modify or substitute this file
\admin\includes\init_includes\init_yclass.php

1, when i installed the module manage, i have already uploaded one file init_yclass.php to admin

<?php
require_once(DIR_FS_CATALOG.'includes/init_includes/init_yclass.php');
?>

2, now i want to install cross sell, it's also need to upload a file init_yclass.php to admin

<?php
    // y stands for yellow1912 :p. I simply add this to store all the functions frequently used in my mods
    
    // PHP4 always pass object by value (default) while PHP5 pass by reference
    if (version_compare(phpversion(), '5.0') < 0) {
        eval('
        function clone($object) {
          return $object;
        }
        ');
    }
    
    class yclass{
        function db_result_to_string($glue, $db_result){
            $temp_array = array();
            if($this->is_obj($db_result,'queryFactoryResult')){
                // We need to clone, because we don't want to touch the real object
                while(!$db_result->EOF){
                    $temp_array[] = $db_result->fields['products_'.XSELL_FORM_INPUT_TYPE];
                    $db_result->MoveNext();
                }
                $db_result->Move(0);
                $db_result->MoveNext();
            }
            
            return implode($glue,$temp_array);
        }
        
        // This function does not work for all languages! BEWARE
        function array_to_upper(&$entries){
            foreach($entries as $entry){
                $entry = strtoupper($entry);
            }
        }
        
        // http://us3.php.net/manual/en/function.is-object.php#66370
        function is_obj( &$object, $check=null, $strict=true ){
            if (is_object($object)) {
                if ($check == null) {
                    return true;
                  } else {
                    $object_name = get_class($object);
                    return ($strict === true)?( $object_name == $check ):( strtolower($object_name) == strtolower($check) );
                  }   
              } else {
                return false;
              }
        }
    }
?>

then i'm not sure what do i make this file correctly ?