Free Gifts-Dangling Carrot support

[timebandet]

This is the official thread for support on the Zen Cart port of Dangling Carrot.
In the early release, many core files are modified. This port was quite complex and we are hoping to modify the code to reduce the number of core files that are overwritten.


While we did a lot of testing on the mod prior to release, there may be things we missed, so if you experience any problems with the mod, please post them here.

Regards
Steve

hello iv instaled it but after the custermer ansers the ?
to get the gift thay get this after pressing the submit buton

go to my site and you will see what i mean

to enter the store follow the link below
www.timebandet.org ----------------------------------------------------------------
1054 Unknown column 'contest_code' in 'where clause'
in:
[select count(*) as total from zen_customers where customers_email_address = 'timebandet######################' and customers_id = '0' AND contest_code = '002']

whot do i do to get this problum fixed
thank you timebandet

[tiger]

Hi Babi
Thanks for letting me know. Maybe I didn't do anything wrong then! Looks like it might all stay a bit of a mystery. Shame as it would've made a nice feature.
Tiger

[octuulive]

Can it work well with 1.38a ? Thanks

[wmorris]

What I am looking for its almost like this way but I don't won't them to choose a free gift I just want to through in a certain gift when they check out. Can someone help me on this?

[gbnet]

I'm using zencart version 1.3.8a and in the admin the items that I added as free gifts did not appear under the Free Gifts heading. I removed this sql bit "pd.language_id = '".$languages_id."'
AND" from lines 107-108 in admin/gift_add.php and it worked. It was coming up with pd.language_id = '' and no results were being returned.

[countrycharm]

What I am looking for its almost like this way but I don't won't them to choose a free gift I just want to through in a certain gift when they check out. Can someone help me on this?

Read this and you will know how to do it.
http://www.zen-cart.com/forum/showpo...8&postcount=11

[gsdcypher]

is there a way to have the customer enter a coupon code to get the free product? for example, a one time use coupon adds the free product to the cart?

thanks!

[Tapper]

OK, I installed the dangling carrot mod and my store went away. The header loaded and that's all, just a blank page otherwise.

After I ran the SQL and installed the files I was able to create the free gift (created a Free Gift category, disabled it, manually added a new product and marked it as a carrot).

Then in Catalog / Free Gift I was able to assign the new product to an order value. The only problem was that my frontend was dead.

I restored the original file and the store was back. I was able to checkout and the free gift worked fine, all the way through the checkout process.

I then tried to make another gift for the next price level. The product did not appear as an option in Catalog / Free Gift. It seems that the mod uses functions_categories.php to manage the carrot products. I'm sure that file is the prob: functions_categories.php in this mod is MUCH shorter than the original (18 KB vs 23 KB???). It's as though the end of the file was deleted.

I didn't want to WinMerge the two. I read in this thread that that caused other problems for some users.

So here's my fix:
You can either have a frontend that works, or be able to configure carrot products in the admin. Not both. By swapping the files I can administer carrots and also have a functioning store.

I have 2 backups of functions_categories.php in includes / functions: functions_categories_php.carrot (from the module) and functions_categories_php.nocarrot (the template original).

When I need to make a new carrot product I turn on the .carrot file, create and assign the product, then re-activate the .nocarrot file.

I know, this is a completely hideous fix , but at least this way Dangling Carrot has it's code when I need to make a new carrot, and my store has its code the other 99.99% of the time. And how often will I be making a new carrot anyway? It only breaks the cart for a couple minutes and then my site is back up with its new carrot in place.

Hope this is helpful to someone! I've done this on 2 zen sites and so far all is well. Carrots work, my store works.

[Tapper]

Two issues: the product display now bleeds into the right column instead of wrapping and staying in the center column, and the sidebox doesn't show the gifts, it only has the text "Free Gift".

[strelitzia]

Sorry i've not been available to answer any queries but i have been working out of the country and not had access to my pc for a long time.

Ok guys, so it seems there are a number of issues in Dangling Carrot. I've taken a quick look and it seems there are a number of lines of code missing in several files. I do have three different versions of DC on my computer, each with different issues. I'll try and merge the three together and get a working version as quickly as possible for you. The biggest problem is obviously loss of the front end of the shop.

Again, sorry you guys have had so much trouble.

Thanks
Steve