Dynamic Price Updater

[perkiekat]

All problems are solved, the updater worked flawlessly.

Web28

Hooray to Web28 for all of his help! I did not have the files complete as I should have.

Web28 fixed the issues. Thanks to all who were eager to help!!

Pkat

[Chrome]

Hi all

I apologise for the absolutely massive wait but I've finally got a completely new version of the Updater: version 2... I've completely rewritten it from the ground up... Here are a few features:

- Smaller, more reliable JS core: less is output to the browser minising page load and the new object detection routines are more reliable
- More accurate: the Updater now relies on object overriding and uses the Zen Cart classes to get answers
- Uses currency symbols based on the current user's selection (or, it should)
- Sales and discounts are now completely handled
- Enhanced developmental extensibility

There are other good bits too but they're mostly development stuff... There are a couple of cons tho:

- Uses Ajax: may be a tiny bit slower to update prices (but should be negligable really)
- Needs PHP5 (but I can create a PHP4 compatible version if anyone needs it)
- Now consists of 3 files (not that large and zipped in their structure)
- No sidebox support (yet, this is in the pipeline)

Oh I'd like to thank web28 for the idea of not loading the Updater unless it's needed (web28: I hope you don't mind that I used the idea)

Anyway the file is located at the link in my signature or in the following attachment

I hope this version goes well but please remember it is a first version so please post any issues here

Cheers

Dan

[Chrome]

D'oh! I'm an idiot... I included the wrong file in the last post! It's late...

Anyway new attachment on this one (and the latest update is always in my sig)

Please don't use the post above!

Cheers

Dan

[lankeeyankee]

Hi Dan,

Thanks for the continuing work! I just uploaded the new files and deleted the old updater file and it doesn't do anything to the price now.

The readme says:

includes/classes/dynamic_price_updater.php - This file has settings that should not have to be changed although if the price doesn't update you might want to check the DPU_PRICE_ELEMENT_ID setting as if your template has the price in an element (e.g. div) with a different ID this setting needs altering

The define for DPU_PRICE_ELEMENT_ID is in the jscript_ajax_updater.php file and not the class file. But, it has the correct ID for the price element so that isn't the problem.

What do I need to do to debug and figure out what is happening?

Thanks!

Matt

[Chrome]

Hi Matt

Thanks for the correction I'll get it changed

Can you send me a link to where the Updater isn't working?

Thanks for helping me test this version too

Dan

[Chrome]

Hi all

Just a note: please only download the Updater v2 from my signature... The attachments above have some issues

Cheers

Dan

[Ajeh]

Thought I was being a user, as I couldn't get this to work ...

Then I re-read things and saw the php 5.x ... kind of would be nice to have a version for php 4.x, should you be so inclined ...

[Chrome]

Hi Ajeh

As it's been asked for I'll prep up a PHP4 tonight (hopefully with release)!... Watch this space!

Cheers

Dan

[Chrome]

Hi

My sig now contains a link for a PHP4 version of the Updater (I had to put it all on one line, I hope it's understandable)

On PHP5 either version should work the same but only use the PHP4 version on PHP4

Any problems please let me know here!

Cheers

Dan

[Ajeh]

Maybe someone else can test the php4 version ... I cannot get it to work on php4 or on php5 ...