Currency Update (Automatic)

[PaulaSinner]

Well, i contacted them.. and they said the php files are permitted and they gave me the command to run in the cron

"php /home/hostname/public_html/filename"


I already did it.. and i did not have success

[kuroi]

file-access is disabled in the server configuration

That's the error message coming from the PHP installation on your web host's server, not Zen Cart and not this mod.

However, I think that your webhost has misunderstoof the issue and thinks you're asking about file permissions rather than the blocking of the PHP file() function. This function is now blocked by default in some installations of PHP5. Your web hosts may not even be aware that they're doing it.

If their technical knowledge is such that they can't sort it out, then you will need to look at the curled version of the add-in instead.

[PaulaSinner]

Hey guys, just a last help

What messenge would i receive if the script runs ok?

ty

[kuroi]

You won't receive a message. It's intended to run silently in the background updating currencies and once working, no news is good news.

[Vortex12]

Hi everyone Awesome scripts, i am with Bravenet and they wont run cron jobs service but they said something about triggering the script to make it work? I found http://www.cronjobs.org but i cant really make sense of it all.
If anyone could help me with my major delema it would be heaps appreciated

[Vortex12]

Hi Again, i am having trouble as im not to educated in php code. getting the Define line17 set out right
I have this /var/www/html/shop-adons/automated_currency_update_v3_1/currency_update.php

If anyone could help i have read the forum over a few times now.
Help would be awesome thaks in advance

[Vortex12]

I hope this post is still running, It would be nice if someone spare a moment
this is from my host
Do you support crontab for scheduled tasks?
No, we don't currently support cron or any other type of task scheduling. We have had members ask for this, and we will try to implement the support in a future hosting version.
As a possible alternative for in the meantime, you could use a crontab service from a different company to 'trigger' your script hosted on Bravenet at predefined intervals.

I would pay to have this done If anyone?
Please help

[ShoesBuyOnline]

Nice add-on! I used this on my local testing PC, it works fine and do update the exchange rate. But I found the value is much different from the result I got using the zen-cart built-in function. Who knows Why?

[kuroi]

I hope this post is still running, It would be nice if someone spare a moment
this is from my host
Do you support crontab for scheduled tasks?
No, we don't currently support cron or any other type of task scheduling. We have had members ask for this, and we will try to implement the support in a future hosting version.
As a possible alternative for in the meantime, you could use a crontab service from a different company to 'trigger' your script hosted on Bravenet at predefined intervals.

I would pay to have this done If anyone?
Please help

Rather than paying somebody to do this for you (though it's really quite straightforward - just put the script in your site's root directory and ask the service to make a call to it once a day), I'd recommend spending your money on a host with a full range of services. You shouldn't need to pay somebody else to set up another paid service just because your web host doesn't offer a fairly basic facility.

[kuroi]

I found the value is much different from the result I got using the zen-cart built-in function. Who knows Why?

The answer can be found earlier in this thread. The built in service was written prior to the service providers changing their terms of business to forbid the screen-scrapping of real-time data that was common at the time. Nowadays you have to buy the service if you want to use it this way.

As a result the current version of the mod uses a different source (official European Central Bank rates, updated once a day). Zen Cart 2.0 will also use this legitimate source.