Mailbeez After Sales Modules

Elijah:

Yes the browser does find /mailhive.php, but this is all it says/shows:

"MailBeez - Mode: simulate (platform: zencart)"

No, I am not using any SEO addon.

Thanks.

you need to use the url with your personal security key - you will find it in the mailbeez admin footer area (see documentation on mailbeez com). if you are not having any crazy mods in your zencart it will work - but of course you need to activate at least one module and hav sufficiebt data in your database

enjoy mailbeez
cord

mailbeez:

but did you set up a cronjob whichs calls your mailhive.php e.g. every day? How I do this?

mailbeez:

I also like to test e.g the birthday module like you did - it is important to create data which can be "caught" by the modules query and setings. try again, maybe you did make a mistake?
Yeah, I think I did a mistake. I realized that in the database I wrote 1965-12-09 instead 1965-09-12.
Thanks!!!

mailbeez:

you need to use the url with your personal security key - you will find it in the mailbeez admin footer area (see documentation on mailbeez com). if you are not having any crazy mods in your zencart it will work - but of course you need to activate at least one module and hav sufficiebt data in your database

enjoy mailbeez
cord

Cord - awesome, got it.:clap: When I included the token =run the active modules ran. So is this how I would normally test any module I include? By actually running it in my browser? And the cronjob setup on cronless is set to run twice a day, so it will do that automatically?

Thanks, and sorry if these are stupid ?'s. :blush:
Elijah

When I run the cron-job url it say:

Processing....
code: birthday module: birthday
Result:0 items 1146 - Table 'mydbosc1_zc1.zen_mailbeez_block' doesn't exist

select date_block from zen_mailbeez_block where module='winback' and customers_id='189' order by date_block DESC

[TEP STOP]

What it means? ANy solution? THanks!

Elijah:

Cord - awesome, got it.:clap: When I included the token =run the active modules ran. So is this how I would normally test any module I include? By actually running it in my browser? And the cronjob setup on cronless is set to run twice a day, so it will do that automatically?

Cron - ok, so I can run the mailbeez modules by directly inputting the token in the URL. But when I try to send a test email from within the admin area I get the following 404 message:

"The requested URL /testcatalog/mailhive.php&zenid=9hha2vdnd0fc6siseft19sb7h4 does not exist."

I get this message no matter which mailbeez module I try. Thoughts?

Update from V1.x (x = 1..4) to V1.5 and higher

MailBeez is easy to install & upgrade and works fine (spent a lot of time testing this and making it easy) on all supported engines.

If you are having issues with MailBeez V1.5 after upgrading, please check the following:

It is a good idea to note your personal settings per module and backup your files. The update affects only MailBeez-Files - and the database_tables.php files in admin and catalog.

You REALLY need to uninstall all modules (incl. Mailhive - the first one) with the "remove" button on each module.
(or run

DELETE FROM configuration WHERE configuration_key LIKE 'MAILBEEZ_%'
in you phpMyAdmin to remove all MailBeez settings - tracking-data will be not affected as they are in their own table)

You REALLY need to copy all new files and folders to your system.

There has been major changes and a manual file-by-file update would be to complex. make sure to back-up your .tpl-files of the Birthday-Module (the only module where you would like to make changes included in the package) and your common html-template. (or write-protect them in the mailhive-folder)

it is also possible to rename the mailhive-folder in e.g. mailhive_v1.x and than copy the new packages in your system.
You just need to copy or move your existing mailbeez-modules into the actual mailhive-folder.

Remember to update your catalog/mailhive.php file and catalog/admin/mailbeez.php as well.

now you are ready to install MailBeez V1.5 - a new table "mailbeez_block" will be created.

After the update your "secret URL" has changed - you need to have the same "secret" in your mailbeez-system and your Cron-job url

• Copy the "secret" from your Cron-URL into the MailBeez-configuration

OR

• Adopt the CronJob to use the new "secret" as generated by Mailbeez

If you still have trouble (?!), please use this support forum.

enjoy
cord

DArnaez:

Table 'mydbosc1_zc1.zen_mailbeez_block' doesn't exist
have a look at #86 in this forum - your forgot something while doing the update. Easy to fix if you follow all steps.

regards
cord

Elijah:

Cord - awesome, got it.:clap: When I included the token =run the active modules ran. So is this how I would normally test any module I include? By actually running it in my browser? And the cronjob setup on cronless is set to run twice a day, so it will do that automatically?

Thanks, and sorry if these are stupid ?'s. :blush:
Elijah

good to hear - so your mailbeez installation is working. Testing can be done through the MailBeez Admin interface - there you can also run each module manually.

You need to use the mailhive.php url when you want to

• run or test all activated modules
• Set up a cronjob that will run mailbeez as often as you want

cord

Elijah:

Cron - ok, so I can run the mailbeez modules by directly inputting the token in the URL. But when I try to send a test email from within the admin area I get the following 404 message:

"The requested URL /testcatalog/mailhive.php&zenid=9hha2vdnd0fc6siseft19sb7h4 does not exist."

I get this message no matter which mailbeez module I try. Thoughts?

As I can read in #83 you MailBeez installation does work in general.
Currently I have no idea why you get the 404 when you try to send a test email - do you get through to enter your email address where to send the test email to? Is the URL you get the 404 for exactly the same you used to run mailhive.php in your browser? (should be the same!?)

cord

DArnaez:

How I do this?

Please check documentation -> basic configuration on mailbeez com for a how-to setting up cronjobs.

cord

Thanks for your quick reply Mailbeez. Ok. I think I going worst. Look. I followed your advice. Deleted the files, upload the new files... first I unistalled all the modules. I went to the DB and copy/paste
DELETE FROM configuration WHERE configuration_key LIKE 'MAILBEEZ_%' But is answered #1146 - Table 'ohmy_zc1.configuration' doesn't exist

I log off from the admin, log in... and install everything. Great. Now when I see the Birthday HTML... it show

"Notice: Constant TABLE_MAILBEEZ_TRACKING already defined in /home/ohmyosc1/public_html/includes/extra_datafiles/mailbeez.php on line 23

Notice: Constant FILENAME_HIVE already defined in /home/ohmyosc1/public_html/includes/extra_datafiles/mailbeez.php on line 25

Notice: Constant GZIP_LEVEL already defined in /home/ohmyosc1/public_html/includes/init_includes/init_db_config_read.php on line 24

Warning: session_start() [function.session-start]: Cannot send session cache limiter - headers already sent (output started at /home/ohmyosc1/public_html/includes/extra_datafiles/mailbeez.php:23) in /home/ohmyosc1/public_html/includes/functions/sessions.php on line 108

Notice: Constant TABLE_STORE_CREDIT already defined in /home/ohmyosc1/public_html/includes/classes/store_credit.php on line 31

Notice: Constant OFFICE_IP_TO_HOST_ADDRESS already defined in /home/ohmyosc1/public_html/includes/languages/english/email_extras.php on line 52

Warning: Cannot modify header information - headers already sent by (output started at /home/ohmyosc1/public_html/includes/extra_datafiles/mailbeez.php:23) in /home/ohmyosc1/public_html/includes/init_includes/init_templates.php on line 78

Notice: Undefined property: birthday::$additionalFields in /home/ohmyosc1/public_html/mailhive/common/classes/mailbeez.php on line 67
Happy Birthday!

and the rest of the html with the cake.

The good news is that now I can see in the DB that the table "zen_mailbeez_block" was created.

DArnaez:

The good news is that now I can see in the DB that the table "zen_mailbeez_block" was created.

no worries - it is an easy fix, just looks ugly.

1. the sql statement failed since you have a prefix - from the tablename "zen_mailbeez_block" can see it is "zen_" so you need to run

DELETE FROM `zen_configuration` WHERE `configuration_key` LIKE 'MAILBEEZ_%'

(addin "zen_" in front of the tablename 'configuration)

2. you need to remove the table- and filename definitions (not really an error but caused the notice-output) as with V1.5 mailbeez supports "drop-in" installation.

With your ealier installation you modified
includes/database_tables.php
includes/filenames.php

Check both on shop-level and in admin-directory and remove the following statements:

define('TABLE_MAILBEEZ_TRACKING'...)

define('FILENAME_MAILBEEZ', 'mailbeez.php');
define('FILENAME_HIVE', 'mailhive.php');

if you still get the ugly "Notice:..." output go to mailhive.php and disable error reporting (like zencart does by default to hide errors...)

define('STRICT_ERROR_REPORTING', false); //change from true to false

will take this issues into the next release of mailbeez.

does it work now?

Yesssss... at least with this last code, the error doesn't appear anymore. Now it work perfect. I paste the Secure Cronjob-URL and no more error. Thanks a lot man!

I'm thinking to buy any module but I want to see what works betters to me. Thanks a lot!

PS: BTW when you think in a new version and wants to give some upgrade to the graphics, contact me. https://www.ohmyicons.com. I work for some developers and companies designing 3D icons and more graphic stuff.

I was looking at the instructions for this module: Aftersales Automatic Trigger Email Campaigns with Modules.

I don't understand the instructions at step #4 to run a cronjob. (I don't even know what one really is. I guess its a way of making something run automatically)

Anyway I went to my server cPanel and looked at Cronjob but I don't see where I enter the url as given in step #4.

Can someone explain this part of the installation? The module says its a "drop-in" installation - no need to modify any file in you zencart-shop! But the instructions don't indicate this at all...

Thanks in advance

nohart:

I was looking at the instructions for this module: Aftersales Automatic Trigger Email Campaigns with Modules.

I don't understand the instructions at step #4 to run a cronjob. (I don't even know what one really is. I guess its a way of making something run automatically)
I suggest you use google to read what a cronjob is - but you are right, a cronjob can be set up to automate things at a given time.

nohart:

Anyway I went to my server cPanel and looked at Cronjob but I don't see where I enter the url as given in step #4.

Can someone explain this part of the installation?
You can test and manually run MailBeez without having a cronjob in place - so you can wait until you found out what you can do with mailbeez. On mailbeez com I collected some ways to set up a cronjob also using free cronservices where you just need to enter you personal mailhive.php... url.

nohart:

The module says its a "drop-in" installation - no need to modify any file in you zencart-shop! But the instructions don't indicate this at all...

Thanks in advance
"drop in" - no need to modify any file: that is correct for zen-cart since you only need to copy the new files into their location. Other cart engines requires to manually go into some configuration files and enter e.g. the name of a new database-table. Zen-Cart is very advanced in this area and allows just to "drop-in" some files which then are automatically included.

hope that helps
cord

ok thank you for the reply! I didn't know I could run it manually. So I take it I can just go ahead and add the add-on to my store and wait later to do the cronjob as in step 4? Maybe I just got thrown for a loop when reading the instructions. Most add-ons that all you have to do is ftp the contents just say so and the instructions led me to think I had to do more... Obviously I was reading into things. Thanks again

There is any kind of multilanguage support for emails?

I manage a store with 5 different languages and I need to send each customer an email in his/her chosen language...

Thanks in advance,
Ale:blush:

mailbeez:

As I can read in #83 you MailBeez installation does work in general.
Currently I have no idea why you get the 404 when you try to send a test email - do you get through to enter your email address where to send the test email to? Is the URL you get the 404 for exactly the same you used to run mailhive.php in your browser? (should be the same!?)

cord

No, the 404 is not the same. I have 4 mailbeez modules installed and I don't get a successful response from any of them. Here is the result of trying to send a test email:

/testcatalog/mailhive.php&zenid=ugf5jjc8ks5urs1uttjnnhlcq5

The "zenid" changes every time. I can successfully pull up mailhive.php in my browser. I also tried doing this in "production" mode, but got the same results. I tried to delete everything including the two DB entries and reinstalling, but same result. Is there anything else I can try? I won't be able to use this mod if I can't do this. Thanks.

nohart:

ok thank you for the reply! I didn't know I could run it manually. So I take it I can just go ahead and add the add-on to my store and wait later to do the cronjob as in step 4? Maybe I just got thrown for a loop when reading the instructions. Most add-ons that all you have to do is ftp the contents just say so and the instructions led me to think I had to do more... Obviously I was reading into things. Thanks again

you got it - just give mailbeez a try, should take only some minutes (really)