Dynamic Filter [Support Thread]

Brilliant. Seems it will be just what I need. Do I need any specific settings in the mod to work with read only attributes? And are the attributes set in the completely standard manner within ZC?

Which is the most up to date version?
The one from the downloads section, or this one on github.
https://github.com/Zen4All-nl/Zen-Cart_Dynamic_Attribute_filter

The one found on this site is fully tested, and supported. The one found on github is my development mod, as far as I remember it is working, but have not done anything with it, for a (to) long time.

You can use Read-only attribute without any special settings. Sometimes it is handy to hide them on the shop side product info pages, using css.

strelitzia:

Which is the most up to date version?
The one from the downloads section, or this one on github.
https://github.com/Zen4All-nl/Zen-Cart_Dynamic_Attribute_filter

Design75:

The one found on github is my development mod

Does it have any features that don't exist in the version available via zc downloads?

Design75:

Yes it can. I do this often.

I've installed the mod from zc downloads but it is only showing filter options for price and manufacturer even though I have at least 4 read only attributes set up on each product in the category. The attributes are displaying correctly on the product page.

I also noticed that if I set it to display dropdown-multi the centre column is displaying BELOW the left column. If I switch to checkbox-multi it correctly displays the center column next to the left column.

It seems that there are some issues surrounding Products With Attributes Stock module which is installed, but no variants are currently set on it.
If i deliberately break the SQL query in includes/templates/MY_TEMPLATE/sideboxes/tpl_dynamic_filter.php so that the (defined('TABLE_PRODUCTS_WITH_ATTRIBUTES_STOCK') ? becomes (defined('TABLE_PRODUCTS_WITH_ATTRIBUTES_STOC') ? ie, unable to be found, I see all my read only attributes.
Surely it doesn't rely on SBA being fully set up if installed before the dynamic filter can be used?
Is this a bug in the dynamic filter mod, or something else that is having negative impact on the filter?

Thanks for any help on this.

Justrimless:

I have had a minor breakthrough. I think.
I noted that all my attributes up to option ID '35' filter fine, ones after that do not.

I have some missing options IDs where I have deleted old attributes, so in phpmyadmin I copied a row and gave it an id of '2', set up test products and attributes of that ID and it seems to search fine.

Whatever works eh?

It looked like it might have worked but a new bunch of peculiarities have sprung forth, which I feared may have occurred when messing in the database. I'll restore from backup and give up.

slf3:

Hi

Summary: In my implementation the plugin only returns products with 32 or less products_attributes records.

Is this just me or has anyone else come across it? I've searched similar postings on this thread but not found any, so my apologies if this has already been covered and solved before.

Symptoms: go to a category and then 'narrow your results', say by selecting a colour. The result that comes back includes all matching products EXCEPT for those with more than 32 products_attributes.

Solving the problem: I deleted a few of the product_attributes from one of the products affected, taking the number down to 27, and it worked. That product now appears in the 'refine your results' page.

How I investigated: I spent three days, on and off, checking everything I could think of including the code, walking through the generated SQL, our data, and removing then re-installing the code, and couldn't find anything. Then I realised that this only happened to products with a large number of product_attributes.

Could it be a configuration issue? I couldn't see a maximum products_attributes variable but there may be one.

Any ideas welcome?

Hi,
Are you on shared hosting.

Most of the issues I have had with this mod, where it works sporadically, have been resource based.

Hi, just a single website on a Cloud server, plenty of memory etc. I can adjust resources as much as I want if that would help. Which ones should I look at?

Server OS: Linux 3.10.0-229.14.1.el7.centos.onapp.x86_64
HTTP Server: Apache
PHP Version: 5.6.30 (Zend: 2.6.0)
PHP Memory Limit: 128M
Database: MySQL 5.5.5-10.1.22-MariaDB
Database Data Size: 95,400 kB
Database Index Size: 24,807 kB

Does anyone have a website where a single product has more than 32 product attributes? And if so, does that product get returned when you use the 'narrow your results' function?

I installed this on ZC 1.5.3 and getting followings are not working

Filter Results by: Manufacturer
Filter Results by: Item Starting with..... (A-Z)

on category page.

Hi,
is it posible to add ajax automatic filter after click to any attribute ?

+1 on wanting ajax on the dynamic filter for checkbox multi.
I'd happily pay someone to add this functionality. It is available on a woo commerce version

Is this compatible with zen Cart v1.5.5e? See this notice on the plugin page "NOTE: BE VERY CAREFUL TO ONLY USE A COMPATIBLE VERSION ON YOUR SITE" which worries me just a bit. Also if it is compatible with v1.5.5e, anyone running it with the Dual Pricing module without issue?

sports guy:

Is this compatible with zen Cart v1.5.5e? See this notice on the plugin page "NOTE: BE VERY CAREFUL TO ONLY USE A COMPATIBLE VERSION ON YOUR SITE" which worries me just a bit. Also if it is compatible with v1.5.5e, anyone running it with the Dual Pricing module without issue?

I'm using it on zc 1.5.5e. When setting up (Aug 2016) I found it not compatible with Stock by Attributes mod that was current version at the time. I only used the latter for a few products so I found it better for me to remove SbyA and have Dynamic Filters.

There was an issue I had with sorting by price on my live site that I didn't have on my test site. It was addressed in this post: https://www.zen-cart.com/showthread.php?193289-Dynamic-Filter-Support-Thread&p=1260429&highlight=forbidden#post1260429 I confirmed that the correct mods were set in my test site but not in my server site. I didn't follow through with my host as it wasn't a priority on my to do list.

I'm using Responsive Sheffield Blue 2.0 template, and there were errors being logged from Dynamic Filters not playing nice with the template's (very old) Currencies mod. I stripped that mod out and went with the resident zc Currencies sidebox. Would have preferred to keep currencies in the header, but wasn't a deal breaker for me.

I found that every product needed to have at least one (read only) attribute - otherwise products without would muck up the entire site appearance (found this out while testing with just a few items; problem went away when I completed applying the filter attribs or 'turned off' products not yet updated.

Lastly, I had difficulty with the install sql. Maybe something peculiar to my database - something I mucked up maybe - I had to manually insert gID number that was created by the zen_configuration part into the zen_admin_pages part of the sql. Don't know what that was all about, but the fix worked.

Thank you soxophoneplayer for your detailed response. In this day and age I feel a dynamic product sorter is a must for a store, so I am really glad to see this addon. Will try this if my paid theme does not come with its own sorter.

I had Dynamic Filter installed for years, and when I switched to a new template it stop working, by this I mean, it's not responding to admin settings, for instance under my main categories, it's listing all the products, instead of filtering just a few, as it supposes to do

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<li><a class="category-top" href="https://www.theoutletseason.com/scentia/womens-perfumes-c-1/">Women's Perfumes</a>
<ul class="sub--sub-menu">
<li><a href="https://www.theoutletseason.com/scentia/je-reviens-by-worth-for-women-pure-perfume-12-oz-p-1.html">je reviens by Worth for Women Pure Perfume 1/2 oz</a></li>
<li><a href="https://www.theoutletseason.com/scentia/je-reviens-by-worth-for-women-eau-de-toilette-spray-1-oz-p-2.html">je reviens by Worth for Women Eau De Toilette Spray 1 oz</a></li>
<li><a href="https://www.theoutletseason.com/scentia/je-reviens-by-worth-for-women-eau-de-toilette-spray-25-oz-p-3.html">je reviens by Worth for Women Eau De Toilette Spray 2.5 oz</a></li>
<li><a href="https://www.theoutletseason.com/scentia/je-reviens-by-worth-for-women-pure-perfume-1-oz-p-4.html">je reviens by Worth for Women Pure Perfume 1 oz</a></li>
<li><a href="https://www.theoutletseason.com/scentia/je-reviens-by-worth-for-women-mini-edp-23-oz-p-5.html">je reviens by Worth for Women Mini EDP .23 oz</a></li>
<li><a href="https://www.theoutletseason.com/scentia/je-reviens-by-worth-for-women-eau-de-toilette-spray-33-oz-p-6.html">je reviens by Worth for Women Eau De Toilette Spray 3.3 oz</a></li>
<li><a href="https://www.theoutletseason.com/scentia/courtesan-by-worth-for-women-eau-de-parfum-spray-3-oz-p-8.html">Courtesan by Worth for Women Eau De Parfum Spray 3 oz</a></li>
<li><a href="https://www.theoutletseason.com/scentia/maja-by-myrurgia-for-women-talcum-powder-7-oz-p-10.html">Maja by Myrurgia for Women Talcum Powder 7 oz</a></li>
<li><a href="https://www.theoutletseason.com/scentia/maja-by-myrurgia-for-women-eau-de-toilette-spray-17-oz-p-11.html">Maja by Myrurgia for Women Eau De Toilette Spray 1.7 oz</a></li>
<li><a href="https://www.theoutletseason.com/scentia/maja-by-myrurgia-for-women-eau-de-toilette-spray-34-oz-p-12.html">Maja by Myrurgia for Women Eau De Toilette Spray 3.4 oz</a></li>
<li><a href="https://www.theoutletseason.com/scentia/promesa-by-myrurgia-for-women-eau-de-parfum-spray-34-oz-p-13.html">Promesa by Myrurgia for Women Eau De Parfum Spray 3.4 oz</a></li>
<li><a href="https://www.theoutletseason.com/scentia/maja-by-myrurgia-for-women-3-soap-cakes-49-oz-p-14.html">Maja by Myrurgia for Women 3 Soap Cakes 4.9 oz</a></li>

Of course this is just an excerpt as I don't want to show more than 11000 links here, as a few suffices ... as an example, but my point is why is this huge list in the source code, even when my settings are these? >>>

To my understanding the limit should be 15 links, and not all 11,000+ as it's the case now ...

Hi. please, help me. I do not want to display all attributes on my site for filtering. how can i disabled text attributes?

malinu4:

Hi. please, help me. I do not want to display all attributes on my site for filtering. how can i disabled text attributes?
On the configuration page of the module you can enter the id's of attributes you want to exclude.

Thank you. Can I disable size attribute in dynamic filter only for one category of products?