Stocks by attributes

[MB1]

i seem to be having 3 issues and im not to sure where to start

1.people can select a product without selecting any attributes?
2.if a product/attribute is out of stock it states it at the top of the shopping cart but doesn't indicate which product is actually out of stock. which leaves customers guessing to what could be out of stock
3. and last is there are way i can show the stock for each product instead of just the total stock in the product info page

[christopherw]

i seem to be having 3 issues and im not to sure where to start

1.people can select a product without selecting any attributes?
2.if a product/attribute is out of stock it states it at the top of the shopping cart but doesn't indicate which product is actually out of stock. which leaves customers guessing to what could be out of stock
3. and last is there are way i can show the stock for each product instead of just the total stock in the product info page

I've also just installed SBA 1.4.10 onto an upgrade install of ZC 1.3.9d (from 1.3.8) and I'm also having the same problems. At the moment it renders SBA completely useless.

Aside from SBA 1.4.10, I only have the SecureTrading payment module and Ceon SEF URI Mapping module installed.


I can add stock and add/edit stock levels for attributes of products (in this case, t-shirts) - but even if I set a stock level to 0 for a size then attempt to deliberately purchase a t-shirt in an out of stock size, the 0 stock is NOT reflected in the shopping cart. I can even go through payment and pay for the item.

I'm not sure what's wrong but I don't believe I've made a mistake during installation - I followed the installation instructions exactly (and very carefully).

I'm stumped with this problem, I wonder if anybody else understand what the root cause of the problem is - it appears that a validation step is not being performed when the person adds stock to their cart, but I'm not expert enough with ZC at the moment to be able to dive into the code and figure out what is or isn't happening.

[DivaVocals]

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i seem to be having 3 issues and im not to sure where to start

1.people can select a product without selecting any attributes?
This is not an SBA "issue" rather it's a Zen Cart attribute setup that makes this possible. This FAQ article might help:
https://www.zen-cart.com/tutorials/i...hp?article=190

Do a forum search for required attributes. There are a few good threads that you might find useful.


2.if a product/attribute is out of stock it states it at the top of the shopping cart but doesn't indicate which product is actually out of stock. which leaves customers guessing to what could be out of stock
When out of stock products are added to the cart, the cart looks like this:


Note that you can clearly see which items are the ones out of stock

3. and last is there are way i can show the stock for each product instead of just the total stock in the product info page
Currently SBA does not provide this level of functionality

[MB1]

this is kinda weird as for my first issue in the attributes drop down it states select size, but you can just byepass this and just click the add to cart button. which will add the product without attributes to the cart.

then in the shopping cart it will state that something is out of stock at the top but in the product list in the cart i have nothing indicating which product is out of stock.

[DivaVocals]

this is kinda weird as for my first issue in the attributes drop down it states select size, but you can just byepass this and just click the add to cart button. which will add the product without attributes to the cart.

This is not an SBA "issue" rather it's a Zen Cart attribute setup that makes this possible (required attributes). This FAQ article might help:
https://www.zen-cart.com/tutorials/i...hp?article=190

Do a forum search for required attributes. There are a few good threads that you might find useful.

then in the shopping cart it will state that something is out of stock at the top but in the product list in the cart i have nothing indicating which product is out of stock.

When out of stock products are added to the cart, the cart looks like this:


Note that you can clearly see which items are the ones out of stock

[MB1]

This is not an SBA "issue" rather it's a Zen Cart attribute setup that makes this possible (required attributes). This FAQ article might help:
https://www.zen-cart.com/tutorials/i...hp?article=190

Do a forum search for required attributes. There are a few good threads that you might find useful.

yeah i read that article can't make heads or tails of it now i'll do a search for required attributes and see what i can find thank you

[profitshock]

@creinold Just found a minor text display glitch. One of my products does not have an image. When displaying the product list the image field displayed TEXT_IMAGE_NONEXISTENT instead of an image.
A search using the developers tool kit shows this term appearing in multiple define files.
I figured this means with no common use defined I had to add it specifically to SBA (?)
It worked :)

In file:

admin/includes/languages/english/extra_definitions/products_with_attributes.php

add

define('TEXT_IMAGE_NONEXISTENT', 'No Image Exists');

before php close tag.

Also for consideration for improvement in the how to file:
In the installation section it should read
'There are five core Zen Cart files modified'
because
•admin/includes/stylesheet.css is no longer affected.

hth

Kevin

[creinold]

@creinold Just found a minor text display glitch. One of my products does not have an image. When displaying the product list the image field displayed TEXT_IMAGE_NONEXISTENT instead of an image.
A search using the developers tool kit shows this term appearing in multiple define files.
I figured this means with no common use defined I had to add it specifically to SBA (?)
It worked :)

In file:

admin/includes/languages/english/extra_definitions/products_with_attributes.php

add

define('TEXT_IMAGE_NONEXISTENT', 'No Image Exists');

before php close tag.

Also for consideration for improvement in the how to file:
In the installation section it should read
'There are five core Zen Cart files modified'
because
•admin/includes/stylesheet.css is no longer affected.

hth

Kevin

Thanks for the update Kevin, will add that to the next update I am working on.

[MB1]

god i love beyond compare i just took a peek at the code in creinoid's updated files and my files and i was missing the attributes code on the \includes\modules\pages\shopping_cart\header_php.php

$flagStockCheck = zen_check_stock($products[$i]['id'], $products[$i]['quantity'],$attributes);