Zen Cart Button Construction Kit 1.6.5 and up..

Noob ambition. This looks so amazing can't believe how clever some people are! Have downloaded but a little intimidated by installation - not much in read me. I am using 1.3.9f with a few other addons and a bit of java. Any chance of an idiots guide to installation?

shanesoine:

Noob ambition. This looks so amazing can't believe how clever some people are! Have downloaded but a little intimidated by installation - not much in read me. I am using 1.3.9f with a few other addons and a bit of java. Any chance of an idiots guide to installation?
fairly certain that the readme CLEARLY outlines the install.. (I assume you clicked on the "Installation" tab in the readme file right??)on the chance it wasn't clear to you it would help me help you to know what part of the readme was unclear...
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shanesoine:

Noob ambition. This looks so amazing can't believe how clever some people are! Have downloaded but a little intimidated by installation - not much in read me. I am using 1.3.9f with a few other addons and a bit of java. Any chance of an idiots guide to installation?

Shane, it is a standalone program, it should be installed in a completely different directory to zencart

Thanks Guys, blind as a bat - working too long. Got it sorted, would swahili translation be of any interest?

shanesoine:

Thanks Guys, blind as a bat - working too long. Got it sorted, would swahili translation be of any interest?
:laugh: No worries.. You had me worried that I had inadvertently left the install instructions out of the readme..

I think Mr Nigel will tell you that ANY language contributions are more than welcome.. The more available, the better this mod becomes for everyone.. Nigel and Torvista really did a GREAT job making this mod what it is today.. Whip smart those two are!!!:smile:

Great will get it done just need a moment to catch up on myself and will post here like the Icelandic chap did. Fantastic job so neat and clean, just what I needed.
Shane

Yep, Swahili would be of use to someone I am sure.

So just post it as Sofus did.

I am getting around to submitting the new version, (only change is the addition of icelandic and the removal of some testing code)

That is so unbelievably amazing and so easy wow changed my shop's image in 15 min. Getting working on Swahili now, just want to run my translations thro someone who speaks it as home lang and will post. Thanks again Shane

Hi guys,

The two preview buttons are not workking with me?
All other is working correct, can make a full set of buttons but can't make a custom button.

Did a clean install (local) and IE & FF both give a red cross for preview buttons?

Any ideas?

Regards,
Rinker

Rinker:

Hi guys,

The two preview buttons are not workking with me?
All other is working correct, can make a full set of buttons but can't make a custom button.

Did a clean install (local) and IE & FF both give a red cross for preview buttons?

Any ideas?

Regards,
Rinker

This is my test site, with the current version (plus icelandic)

http://grumpykiwi.com/zen_button_construction_kit_1-6-8-a/zen_button_construction_kit_1-6-8/zen_bck/index.php

tell me if it works for you, as it has been tested in all browsers, i have just checked in IE9 and opera and it works fine

nigelt74:

This is my test site, with the current version (plus icelandic)

http://grumpykiwi.com/zen_button_construction_kit_1-6-8-a/zen_button_construction_kit_1-6-8/zen_bck/index.php

tell me if it works for you, as it has been tested in all browsers, i have just checked in IE9 and opera and it works fine

Yes, is working fine for me in both IE & FF.

I'm running here Apache 2.0 with PHP 5.2.13.
and never have any problems with it.
But you think the problem is lying there?

regards,
Rinker

Rinker:

Yes, is working fine for me in both IE & FF.

I'm running here Apache 2.0 with PHP 5.2.13.
and never have any problems with it.
But you think the problem is lying there?

regards,
Rinker
Doubtful.. My button kit is running fine with Apache and PHP 5.2.14

I just downloaded it again and did install it on another server i have.
This server runs Apache 2.0 & php 5.2.4 but I have exactly the same problem.
It only is not showing those two preview buttons, everything else is working fine.
Strange thing.......

Regards,
Rinker

Rinker:

I just downloaded it again and did install it on another server i have.
This server runs Apache 2.0 & php 5.2.4 but I have exactly the same problem.
It only is not showing those two preview buttons, everything else is working fine.
Strange thing.......

Regards,
RinkerCan you PM a link to your button kit?? If it's on a local server, I wonder if this is a possible issue with running this on a local server....

Ok, I have found the problem.

I've searched the log files and found some warnings.
After looking into the files and some testing I found out that the problem is the file: _default_preset.php
In this file you find: (where ###### = b u t t without the spaces :smile:)

if ($########_type == 1) {
$languages['english'] = 'yes';
$languages['german'] = 'no';
$languages['spanish'] = 'no';
$languages['french'] = 'no';
$languages['italian'] = 'no';
$languages['dutch'] = 'no';
$languages['estonian'] = 'no';
$languages['norwegian'] = 'no';
$languages['finnish'] = 'no';
$languages['swedish'] = 'no';
$languages['czech'] = 'no';
$languages['slovak'] = 'no';
$languages['polish'] = 'no';
$languages['romanian'] = 'no';
$languages['russian'] = 'no';
$languages['catala'] = 'no';
}
else
{
$languages['english'] = 'yes';
$languages['spanish'] = 'no';
// Ugly hack to unset Languages we don't have translations for
unset($languages['german']);
unset($languages['catala']);
unset($languages['french']);
unset($languages['italian']);
unset($languages['dutch']);
unset($languages['estonian']);
unset($languages['norwegian']);
unset($languages['finnish']);
unset($languages['swedish']);
unset($languages['czech']);
unset($languages['slovak']);
unset($languages['polish']);
unset($languages['romanian']);
unset($languages['russian']);
}

This you will not find in any of the other preset files, only the upper part of this but not the if else.
I've made my own preset with the program , renamed it to _default_preset and deleted the old one.

After restarting everything all is now working fine, without any error or warnings.!

Thanks for this great program and the support here.

Regards,
Rinker

Originally you could only do the catatogue buttons, and then if you wanted to do the admin buttons you had to manually rename various files to do that, and then rename them again when you wanted to do the catalogue ones.

The "if" statement you are talking about was put there to stop errors happening when switching between admin and catalogue when we added that functionality, it unsets certain variables to stop them being carried through, which was causing errors, you won't see errors unless you turn on the error reporting (by default i think the mod suppresses errors), although i can't remember as i don't have the code in front of me, but under certain conditions there were errors being generated, however there are other fixes that were added which probably prevent this happening in most situations, I'll have a proper check later.

If it works for you without that code thats good although that code shouldn't effect the custom button at all, but I'd advise anyone else to only alter that code if you have an issue, with things not generating, as the current code has been tested by multiple users on multiple server layouts

nigelt74:

If it works for you without that code thats good although that code shouldn't effect the custom button at all, but I'd advise anyone else to only alter that code if you have an issue, with things not generating, as the current code has been tested by multiple users on multiple server layouts
nods in agreement

nigelt74:

If it works for you without that code thats good although that code shouldn't effect the custom button at all, but I'd advise anyone else to only alter that code if you have an issue, with things not generating, as the current code has been tested by multiple users on multiple server layouts

I understand, but even when I loaded one of the other two presets that came with it, it give me the same results, no preview buttons! And in those two other files theres also no if else, so once loaded the _default_presets file it never show the preview buttons (for me).

Well, found it very strange. Maybe my security level is set to high??
I have it all working now without the if else, Catalog and Admin buttons are both working correct!

Regards,
Rinker

BTW:

The warning was for the b u t t_type variable.
Variable not defined.

Regards,
Rinker

Tried adding these buttons to my local install before putting them on my live site.

Created the buttons I wanted.
Created a .ZIP file and downloaded to my PC.
Extracted the contents.
Placed the folder (buttons) into zencart/includes/templates/CUSTOM/

still have the same old buttons.

What am I missing?