Ceon Back In Stock Notifications 3.0.0

This module could be modified to allow it to be executed as a Cron job. I would recommend you contact a ZenCart Developer to modify this, and make that change.

I have installed this model but it does not provide the functionality I need. How can I uninstall it?

godt:

I have installed this model but it does not provide the functionality I need. How can I uninstall it?

revert back to the back-up you made before beginning the install.

clint6998:

Hello all! This is a great plugin and I have tried following the thread and have tried setting up a cron job to auto run the script but I get nothing. I am using v1.5.0 of zen cart and cannot add administrative levels or restrict them to a certain area. The latest for the admin profiles is for 1.3.9 and some of the files to edit do not exist in zen v1.5.0.

Does anyone have a solution so that I can run cron jobs and send out automatic notification of products back in stock? We have over 15,000 products and our inventory is updated every 10 minutes so it would be very nice to have this automated.

Any help would be appreciated.

Clint

http://www.zen-cart.com/showthread.php?181440-Ceon-Back-In-Stock-Notifications-3-0-0&p=1144934#post1144934

Limitless:

Not sure what has changed now, but my 'back in stock notification' emails are missing my domain name in the link that gets sent out?!!?!

Any one run into this before I start digging around?

Hi,

I have the same problem. Did you manage to solve it? I have v3.2.0 installed on ZenCart 1.5.1. Also using CEON URI mapping. The link in notification e-mails looks like this: /category/product
Can you help?
Thank you in advance.

Hi!

I just installed this plugin on our test server. I like that the unique files and the potentially-colliding files were in separate folders in the zip, it made the install mostly painless.

Once I got it installed I was a bit surprised. When I'm already a registered customer on this site it's frustrating to have to type in my name and email (twice!) to get put on a list. Give me a one-click to subscribe and I'm far more likely to do it. Let me unsubscribe from the same page instead of hidden down in "my account" and I'm even happier. Are these things possible, or should I be looking for another similar plugin?

i-make-robots:

Hi!

I just installed this plugin on our test server. I like that the unique files and the potentially-colliding files were in separate folders in the zip, it made the install mostly painless.

Once I got it installed I was a bit surprised. When I'm already a registered customer on this site it's frustrating to have to type in my name and email (twice!) to get put on a list. Give me a one-click to subscribe and I'm far more likely to do it. Let me unsubscribe from the same page instead of hidden down in "my account" and I'm even happier. Are these things possible, or should I be looking for another similar plugin?

When I am logged in as a customer ( I am assuming you were trying this logged in as a customer) the form is pre-populated with the name and email in both email fields. Sounds like you might not have uploaded/edited everything if wasn't working after logging in.

You should be able to embed the unsubscribe code from the account page into anywhere you want, but personally I think it's 6 to 1, half dozen the other. They are still going to have to go somewhere to unsubscribe which means clicking to get there, and on the account page it shows all of the subscriptions and is a central place to unsubscribe to multiple products without having to go all over the site to do it.

dee_d_lady:

Hi,

I have the same problem. Did you manage to solve it? I have v3.2.0 installed on ZenCart 1.5.1. Also using CEON URI mapping. The link in notification e-mails looks like this: /category/product
Can you help?
Thank you in advance.

I have not been able to track this down yet.

lankeeyankee:

When I am logged in as a customer ( I am assuming you were trying this logged in as a customer) the form is pre-populated with the name and email in both email fields. Sounds like you might not have uploaded/edited everything if wasn't working after logging in.

You should be able to embed the unsubscribe code from the account page into anywhere you want, but personally I think it's 6 to 1, half dozen the other. They are still going to have to go somewhere to unsubscribe which means clicking to get there, and on the account page it shows all of the subscriptions and is a central place to unsubscribe to multiple products without having to go all over the site to do it.

ditto, my installation works just fine.

Well... I'll copy the unsubscribe to the product page as well. I don't see why there would need to be a form at all when the data ceon needs is already in the membership info.

hello there ,i just read all the thread (o.k almost all of it ) and i couldn't find answers.
there is 2 problems.

1.when you click on (To be notified when this product is back in stock please click here.) so it stay on the same page and the url look like that (-tr-073-p-17948.html#back_in_stock_notification_form

2.when i submit the form by clicking the notify me button so from here on nothing working ,there isn't any new in database ,and the no notification that i submit the form.

please help .

Scott Benton:

hello there ,i just read all the thread (o.k almost all of it ) and i couldn't find answers.
there is 2 problems.

1.when you click on (To be notified when this product is back in stock please click here.) so it stay on the same page and the url look like that (-tr-073-p-17948.html#back_in_stock_notification_form

2.when i submit the form by clicking the notify me button so from here on nothing working ,there isn't any new in database ,and the no notification that i submit the form.

please help .

What happens if you disable your 'SEO' rewriting?

picandnix:

What happens if you disable your 'SEO' rewriting?
thanks a lot for your replay.
this is a very good question, but i dont have answer for ,because i just understood that i can't disable the Ultimate SEO in using.
every time i try to change Enable SEO URLs? to false so it don't let me and return to true.
but let say it because of the rewriting , what can i do to fix this issue?
thanks again.

dee_d_lady:

Hi,

I have the same problem. Did you manage to solve it? I have v3.2.0 installed on ZenCart 1.5.1. Also using CEON URI mapping. The link in notification e-mails looks like this: /category/product
Can you help?
Thank you in advance.

Still trying to track this down.

I see in the admin/includes/functions/back_in_stock_functions.php it builds the 'STORE_URL' and 'PRODUCT_DETAIL' variables with the following function:

function sendBackInStockNotificationEmail($name, $email, $plain_text_msg, $html_msg,
$more_than_one = false, $test_mode = false)
{
global $messageStack, $ENABLE_SSL;

$plain_text_msg_parts['EMAIL_GREETING'] = sprintf(EMAIL_GREETING, $name);

$html_msg_parts['EMAIL_GREETING'] =
	htmlentities(sprintf(EMAIL_GREETING, $name), ENT_COMPAT, CHARSET);

if (!$more_than_one) {
	$plain_text_msg_parts['EMAIL_INTRO_1'] .= EMAIL_INTRO_SINGULAR1;
	$plain_text_msg_parts['EMAIL_INTRO_2'] .= EMAIL_INTRO_SINGULAR2;
	
	$html_msg_parts['EMAIL_INTRO_1'] .= EMAIL_INTRO_SINGULAR1;
	$html_msg_parts['EMAIL_INTRO_2'] .= EMAIL_INTRO_SINGULAR2;
} else {
	$plain_text_msg_parts['EMAIL_INTRO_1'] .= EMAIL_INTRO_PLURAL1;
	$plain_text_msg_parts['EMAIL_INTRO_2'] .= EMAIL_INTRO_PLURAL2;
	
	$html_msg_parts['EMAIL_INTRO_1'] .= EMAIL_INTRO_PLURAL1;
	$html_msg_parts['EMAIL_INTRO_2'] .= EMAIL_INTRO_PLURAL2;
}

$ssl_status = "NONSSL";

if ($ENABLE_SSL) {
	$ssl_status = "SSL";
}

$plain_text_msg_parts['STORE_URL'] = HTTP_CATALOG_SERVER . DIR_WS_CATALOG;
$plain_text_msg_parts['STORE_ACCOUNT_URL'] =
	zen_catalog_href_link(FILENAME_ACCOUNT, '', $ssl_status);
$plain_text_msg_parts['STORE_CONTACT_URL'] =
	zen_catalog_href_link(FILENAME_CONTACT_US, '', 'NONSSL');

$html_msg_parts['STORE_URL'] = HTTP_CATALOG_SERVER . DIR_WS_CATALOG;
$html_msg_parts['STORE_ACCOUNT_URL'] = zen_catalog_href_link(FILENAME_ACCOUNT, '', $ssl_status);
$html_msg_parts['STORE_CONTACT_URL'] = zen_catalog_href_link(FILENAME_CONTACT_US, '', 'NONSSL');

if (!$more_than_one) {
	$plain_text_msg_parts['PRODUCTS_DETAIL_TITLE'] = PRODUCTS_DETAIL_TITLE_SINGULAR;
	$html_msg_parts['PRODUCTS_DETAIL_TITLE'] = PRODUCTS_DETAIL_TITLE_SINGULAR;
} else {
	$plain_text_msg_parts['PRODUCTS_DETAIL_TITLE'] = PRODUCTS_DETAIL_TITLE_PLURAL;
	$html_msg_parts['PRODUCTS_DETAIL_TITLE'] = PRODUCTS_DETAIL_TITLE_PLURAL;
}

$plain_text_msg_parts['PRODUCTS_DETAIL'] = $plain_text_msg;

$html_msg_parts['PRODUCTS_DETAIL'] =
	'<table class="product-details" border="0" width="100%" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="2">' .
	$html_msg . '</table>';

Contents of the email template that gets sent out:

In testing, I prepended $STORE_URL to $PRODUCT_DETAIL and sent a test message.

It sent me an html email, formatted properly, but laid out like this:

https://www.domain.com
/category/subcategory/product

Both of which are html links.

So getting closer, but I don't want to hack up this module when it is something else that 'broke' it, not the module itself.

I am missing where it actually 'creates' the <a href= $STORE_URL . $PRODUCT_DETAIL > that goes out in the email.

Scott Benton:

hello there ,i just read all the thread (o.k almost all of it ) and i couldn't find answers.
there is 2 problems.

1.when you click on (To be notified when this product is back in stock please click here.) so it stay on the same page and the url look like that (-tr-073-p-17948.html#back_in_stock_notification_form

2.when i submit the form by clicking the notify me button so from here on nothing working ,there isn't any new in database ,and the no notification that i submit the form.

please help .

I am having the same problem pretty much. The link is showing up fine but when I click the link it just adds #back_in_stock_notification_form to the end of the link and nothing happens.

Never mind, I'm an idiot. Simple error in copying code.

I am upgrading from ZC 1.3.9h to ZC 1.5.1. Back in Stock Notifications has been an excellent tool in 1.3.9h. "Ceon Back in Stock Notifications" appears as an entry on the Admin menu under Catalogue and seems to work. Should there be an entry under Admin Configuration to Enable/Disable the plugin as occurred in the previous version?

Also when the modified core file, 1.5.0\includes\functions\functions_general.php is used it conflicts with password_funcs.php.

[30-Nov-2013 21:27:28] PHP Fatal error: Cannot redeclare zen_create_random_value() (previously declared in (snip)\includes\functions\functions_general.php:613) in (snip)\includes\functions\password_funcs.php on line 86

Are there known problems with ZC1.5.1?

EDIT:... nevermind, figured it out.

Re upgrading from ZC 1.3.9h to ZC 1.5.1.
The install works correctly on a new database. Because I am upgrading, the database tables and entries already exist. I can invoke the back in stock notifications setting screen by manually entering the configuration id of the old page (this still exists in the database).

The install program adds an entry in "admin_pages" table for the catalog menu but does not add a new entry for the configuration menu.

I have manually added a new entry in the "admin_pages" table with the values page_key = 'ceon_bisn_cg', language_key = 'BOX_CEON_BACK_IN_STOCK_NOTIFICATIONS_CONFIG_GROUP', main_page = 'FILENAME_CONFIGURATION', page_params = 'gID=32' [ NOTE this value point s to you existing value], menu_key = 'configuration', display_on_menu = 'Y'

The menu item is now correctly displayed on the admin configuration menu.

When customer receive email about back in stock notification, the link is broken.
Instead of showing https://www.xxx.com/bracelet/k0121

it is showing /bracelet/k0121

may i know how can i rectify that?