Product Type Book (by moku)

[hareslade]

Lilleypadgifts
its insanely stupid for me to reply months later, I didn't come here much I am doing a house up :)
.. the authors system can be a pain if one just doesn't want to do it like that..

The original design by Moku was done in this way because it eases the way the data is held... I used to run two logged in browser windows of admin, one to add authors, the other doing the normal product insertion once the new author is in.

The authors search sidebox does just list authors in alpahabetical order.. But if someone wants a another way of searching they can use the normal zencart searchbox to trace products , it should search authors names in its general search.

So use the full authors name otherwise it will give an odd authors sidebox search list just of your first letters.

[biscayne]

Looking at product info (product_book_info) I can click on Author
and it should show me all books by that author Unfortunately it only does a refresh of the current page. I've seen that on several other sites it uses the "Hareslade-filters". How can I tell this ZenCart to use the "Hareslade-filters" ?
I'm using ZenCart 1.3.6.
Thanks!

[hareslade]

Hi biscayne
difficult to know why you get that prob, actually its almost certainly not a simple page refresh, its doing whatever it should, but there is some error arising on doing it, so the page is being returned to its source page on a 'redirect'. Which book zip are you using?

[biscayne]

I'm using the filters from the ZC1.3.6d zip-file.
When I continue testing I see the following behaviour.
If there's more than 1 book by this author clicking on author links to the home page:
http://www.theatrebookshop.eu/index....tolvfsaqe17e70
If there's only 1 book by this author clicking the author refreshes the page:
http://www.theatrebookshop.eu/index....tolvfsaqe17e70
I can't understand why this is happening

[biscayne]

Actually the problem shows with more than one book per author.
When I do an advanced search on author name with a program I wrote myself I get the correct result:
http://www.theatrebookshop.eu/index....azan&x=19&y=10
Also checked the data and they seem to be correct as well.
Why don't I get this result with :
http://www.theatrebookshop.eu/index....tolvfsaqe17e70
?

[hareslade]

HI
The second link you quoted was

 /index.php?main_page=index&book_authors_id=15620&typefilter=book_authors

one from my own my own site,

 /index.php?book_authors_id=6&typefilter=book_authors&main_page=index

theres no diffence in the page url request format (given its two different id's on 2 sites) so it looks ok

but book_authors_id=15620 is a very high number, is there a reason for this?

you'll maybe have to work out how the book authors search works in the php, its too difficult to analyze from a distance,
specially as i get pages in german, and the book authors searchbox isn't apparently currently showing on your site

[biscayne]

Thanks for thq quick reply.
The pages are in Dutch and in English
(http://www.theatreandfilmbooks.eu).
Search on author name is part of our own version of Advanced Search.
The number 15620 is rather high but even if it was 99999 that should not be causing this problem.
Putting the URL the same as your URL indeed does not change anything. Have there been any changes in data of the Product Type Book since ZC version 1.3.5 ?

[biscayne]

oops wrong URL
it should read
http://www.theatrebookshop.eu
or http://www.theatreandfilmbooks.com

[hareslade]

oops, between us we are doing a terrible job of this. I am most apologetic to mix up dutch and german.. !

regarding the 15620 I was just interested to see how it got that high, usually it starts from author id = 1

---> history...

V1 book was for zencart 1.3.6, it was single language, currently i can't locate it on my site maybe it dropped off during the site changeover, or i thought the v2 for 1.3.7 was the better one to use.

I did the updated single language version for v1.3.7, ZC1_3_7_EXTENDED_MOKU BOOK_TYPE_JPH_V_2.zip 20 March 2007
at
http://www.jphuk.co.uk/zc/index.php?...roducts_id=482
there was then also a V3 beta version of the ***multilanguage*** for 1.3.7 as well, see the green text on that page. Note, I am using the V3 beta in single language mode, on the above website.

The v1.3.8 book version v4 is at
http://www.jphuk.co.uk/zc/index.php?...roducts_id=490

But you are using zencart v1.3.6 you say, so you're on v1 of book, but that only runs with a single language..? yet your site has two languages.. you need V3 (beta) multilanguage for multilanguage zencarts, and you need zencart v1.3.7 to run it in...
or use the v4 / zencart 1.3.8 setup

To run V3 beta in 1.3.6 zencart you'd have to go back and look at what zencart changed 1.3.6 -> 1.3.7, i can't tell if it works retrospectively.

To be honest yes, there were search bugs/mistakes fixed through those v1 to v4 versions, V4 is the best one, for zencart 1.3.8.
You should find a txt file in each version's fileset saying approximately what changed.

I know I sound like a company, 'but strictly you should be using latest zencart 1.3.8 if using multilanguage,' as the book v4 is the best debugged one, ...its a complex bit of kit the book add-on, i improved and corrected various things over time.

I don't have the book demo's for the 1.3.7 multilanguage any more, I dropped them when i moved website domain. The 1.3.8 demo's are on my signature below.

[biscayne]

Indeed the cause of the high id for authors is historical (converted data).
Ever since installing the first Moku version of Product Type Book, I've been modifying and adding also quite a lot, so upgrading to version 1.3.8 will be not a straight forward job, also the bookstore does not see the advantage of having the latest version, they are OK with my "tailor made" version.
I'll dig into the several versions to see if I can find out what is causing this weird problem.
Thanks a lot for your explanation and all the links, this makes my job easier.