Snaf

Last week this add-on was working on my site https://www.livingtowers.com/coopstore. Now it doesn't I don't even know where to start to troubleshoot this. Can anyone help me please? I have checked the logs folder and there is an unrelated error in there

DeeL:

Last week this add-on was working on my site www.livingtowers.com/coopstore. Now it doesn't I don't even know where to start to troubleshoot this. Can anyone help me please? I have checked the logs folder and there is an unrelated error in there

based on the grid/list drop down, are you sure you do not have flexible_product_listing installed?

Positive. However I do have "Set number dropdown" installed. I forgot to mention that. That mod recommended SNAF for the pages that it cannot control.

What changes were made to your site?

Did you install any new mods?

Did you make any admin changes?

What are the errors in your error log?

As stated earlier - SNAF does not use a list/grid drop-down that I am aware of, that is a flexible_product_listing feature.

Are the following options in admin > configuration > product listing

@rborbour

Well, I have no problem with the zip file and many others have not. I am not saying that there is not a problem - just that I can't find it. May well be an OS/version/compression software issue.

@Deel
Well, that doesn't look too much like a straight-forward install of SNAF. But either way, what has been said is true. What have you done/installed/changed in the last week that may have effected this.

Nick

I don't understand how it isn't a straight forward install of SNAF. I simply followed the install instructions.

Now you come to mention it, I did install Admin New Order (I think it is actually called Admin New Customer). I assume it stopped working after this was installed. Are you familiar with this mod and why they may conflict? I am going to go through and remove it from my test site and see if that fixes it. I'd rather have the ability for customers to see all products in a the all, new, featured categories. Set number of products also stopped working.

The reason that I do not think that it is a straight-forward install of SNAF is the list/grid dropdown and various other bits and pieces of code. The dropdown being the most visible. That is not a SNAF feature. I am sure of that as I wrote the SNAF code and didn't write a list/grid dropdown. SNAF does have that functionality but it is handled differently.

So, that comes from some other module that you have installed now or in the past. And put bluntly, there is no way of knowing what is conflicting with what because we do not know what you have installed.

G'day Nick

I've installed Flexible Product Listing, which I like so far and didn't want to revert (although my new build is still in development stage and little real testing). I wanted to use a product like Single Listing Template and SNAF, however both of these seem to be built on the original/core Column Layout Grid :-|

Comparing the files of the two add-ons; SNAF and Flexible Product List, there are a LOT of different files and quite a few changes in product_listing.php. No CSS stylesheet in SNAF, which is probably why I'm liking FPL so much.

Any suggestions for me? A merge option possible? Can these two live together in harmony? Even better... any chance of an update to SNAF built on FPL? :huh:

Cheers
GAM

Hi Nick, you had mentioned in an earlier exchange here that you didn't know of a reason to want FPL features instead of straight Column Grid when in columns mode. The differences in control are not as profound as in rows mode, but FPL does give a lot of handles for individual product elements that are not present in Column Grid. Its grid mode also has a version of the "sort by" code like standard rows mode has so users can set the criteria for how the list is organized. (I don't know if SNAF has that.) The latest Column Grid also has the grid mode sort order settings. Just wanted to clear that up:)

Thanks Glenn. I certainly rate fpl. As I think I say in my first post I wrote SNAF just because I needed it to do things the way it does things. i think that between the various modules that cover the territory a good range of stuff is provided for users.

I am a bit loathe to do too much more development on it to be honest. That is partly because i know that the zen developers have some thoughts about incorporating something similar in a future release. if you could start at the core you could make the process much more streamlined than a module so that would be much preferable for everyone.

@GAM
well, for the moment I think that you will probably have to make a choice about which way to jump. A merge would be possible but would be non-trivial. As far as styling goes all of SNAF can be styled with css and it is built specifically to allow that.

Thanks Nick. Agreed. Appreciate your response and acknowledge your reply to Glenn too. Noted.

Cheers
GAM

I've already installed the column-grid layout v2.3.1, but want the same functionality on All Products and New Listing pages. Does SNAF play nice with column-grid? or does column-grid need to be uninstalled?

EricRas:

I've already installed the column-grid layout v2.3.1, but want the same functionality on All Products and New Listing pages. Does SNAF play nice with column-grid? or does column-grid need to be uninstalled?

It's not a matter of "playing nice together". They are two modules with similar features.. (SNAF covering ALL of the various product listings) You will either install the Column Grid module or SNAF. There wouldn't be a reason to try to install them both..

So to answer your question, if you want features SNAFF offers which Column Grid does not offer, then you would install SNAF..

My New Products and Specials just won't go into columns no matter what. I searched this thread for an answer, but didn't see anything that helped.

https://www.fantasycostume.com

Thanks
Rusty

Hi,

when I try to install the mod, admin pages are not accessible. I can only get into admin area after deleting config.snaf.php. I get this debugg file

You have an error in your SQL syntax; check the manual that corresponds to your MySQL server version for the right syntax to use near

' 900, now(), now(), NULL, 'zen_cfg_select_option(array(''True'',''False''),')' at line 2

INSERT INTO configuration (configuration_id, configuration_title, configuration_key, configuration_value, configuration_description, configuration_group_id, sort_order, last_modified, date_added, use_function, set_function) VALUES (NULL, 'Use Product Listing Format for All Products', 'USE_PRODUCT_LISTING_FOR_ALL_PRODUCTS', 'False', 'Use Product Listing Format instead of the Default All Product Format <br/><br/>
This will make some of the settings on this page inactive as the product listing settings will be used.', , 900, now(), now(), NULL, 'zen_cfg_select_option(array(''True'',''False''),')

in /www/sites/1/site16031/public_html/includes/classes/db/mysql/query_factory.php on line 120

Can someone help?
Thank you

What language are you using in admin?

In admin>>configuration do you have a menu item that is called 'All Listing' ?

Nick

dee_d_lady:

Hi,

when I try to install the mod, admin pages are not accessible. I can only get into admin area after deleting config.snaf.php. I get this debugg file

Can someone help?
Thank you

niccol:

What language are you using in admin?

In admin>>configuration do you have a menu item that is called 'All Listing' ?

Nick

I'm using Slovak language and the Admin area is translated into Slovak language. I changed the phrases like "All listing" and other english phrases from init_snaf.php to match them with my slovak admin interface but the same debugg file was created.

Daniela

Well, I am suprised that did not work but would like to see the debug file once you had change the file.

The issue is that the init_snaf file adds some entries to 'specials', 'featured','all' and 'product listing' in the config menus. It finds the right place to put them from the names.

You can try and use the attached file instead. What it does is put those entries in the default locations rather than checking them with the names. But I'd make sure you have the dataabse backed up first.

If the default locations have been changed it will put things in the wrong place. Not many modules ( non that I can think of ) change the order in the configuration_group table in the database so it is worth a go. But make sure you are backed up first.

On a different note, if you know how to use phpMyAdmin I can talk you through how to get it right for sure.

Nick

dee_d_lady:

I'm using Slovak language and the Admin area is translated into Slovak language. I changed the phrases like "All listing" and other english phrases from init_snaf.php to match them with my slovak admin interface but the same debugg file was created.

Daniela

The attached file works great. Thank you for help. It's a great mod. I've also found out why the renaming didn't work for me. When I checked the table in phpMyAdmin, to my suprise, the tables like All listining etc. are named slightly different than in my ZenCart Admin area.
Perhaps you should upload updated version of SNAF with this new init_snaf.php to rule out this language issue.
Again, thank you for your help!

Daniela

niccol:

Well, I am suprised that did not work but would like to see the debug file once you had change the file.

The issue is that the init_snaf file adds some entries to 'specials', 'featured','all' and 'product listing' in the config menus. It finds the right place to put them from the names.

You can try and use the attached file instead. What it does is put those entries in the default locations rather than checking them with the names. But I'd make sure you have the dataabse backed up first.

If the default locations have been changed it will put things in the wrong place. Not many modules ( non that I can think of ) change the order in the configuration_group table in the database so it is worth a go. But make sure you are backed up first.

On a different note, if you know how to use phpMyAdmin I can talk you through how to get it right for sure.

Nick

So I finally have hit a snag using SNAF.. I've always preferred this module of the Column Product Listings mod because Column Product Listing module only converts the category product listing into grid listings, whereas SNAF covers ALL products listings including the Specials, Feature, and New Products listings..

The issue I've run into with SNAF is the tables used to create the grids.. It looks like code that drive this are in these files:
includes/templates/custom_template/common/tpl_columnar_display.php
includes/templates/custom_template/common/tpl_tabular_display.php

I need to convert the tables to a CSS grid like the one used for the category listings in the Column Product Listings mod. Otherwise this mod will be a bit of a bear to deal with in responsive templates..

I've been staring at the code in these two files hoping to "figure it out", but I am waving the white flag and admitting that I haven't a CLUE here.. Hoping that if not niccol, that some kind community member can help me with the changes I need to make..