Testimonial Manager Support Thread (for ZC v1.5.x)

jcrewe:

Hi there :)

I'm hoping someone might be able to help me with an issue I just noticed. I'm using ZC version 1.5.4. The quotes on my testimonials are HUGE! So big that they cover part of the testimonial text. Any way to either make these smaller or remove them all together?

Thanks :)

The quotes are image files. Replace them with smaller images.

jcrewe:

Hi there :)

I'm hoping someone might be able to help me with an issue I just noticed. I'm using ZC version 1.5.4. The quotes on my testimonials are HUGE! So big that they cover part of the testimonial text. Any way to either make these smaller or remove them all together?

Thanks :)

Try this download includes/templates/YOUR_TEMPLATE/templates/tpl_display_all_testimonials_default.php
Go down to line 49 and replace:

<div class="testimonial">

with

<div id="testimonial">

See if that will solve your problem.

countrycharm:

Try this download includes/templates/YOUR_TEMPLATE/templates/tpl_display_all_testimonials_default.php
Go down to line 49 and replace:

Thanks, Countrycharm! While the quotes are still on the large size, at least they are no longer impeding on the actual testimonial so now it's all legible :)

jeking:

The quotes are image files. Replace them with smaller images.
IMHO, this is the BEST solution.. One of these days I gonna look into an option to replace the images with an Awesome Font glyph.. or even a Google Fonts quote..
countrycharm:

Try this download includes/templates/YOUR_TEMPLATE/templates/tpl_display_all_testimonials_default.php
Go down to line 49 and replace:

Hi Everyone.

I've been using this plugin for years & love it. I've found a weird problem with mine though. Googlebot & bingbot amongst others cannot see the sidebox on my homepage. Fine on every other page of my website but the homepage shows all sideboxes with the exception of Testimonials Manager. You can see this if you look at my homepage https://www.koolbadges.co.uk in googles cache. I can't for the life of me figure out why it doesn't display on the homepage but is fine on every other page. Your input would be much appreciated.

If you fetch as bingbot or googlebot in webmater tools you will see it simply doesn't render.

Thanks in advance

I am getting spam testimonials even though I have set 'Only registered customers may submit a testimonial', when I look at the customer submitting it I can't find it in my customer database, how is this happening, I tried to submit a testimonial the system tells me you need to be registered.

Any idea why how to fix this issue, I have google captcha but it's not set up for testimonials.

Any suggestions?

Not sure why I didn't see this before, but I just finished updating my form layout and did a test. Got an error to pop-up even through all worked as expected.

Server OS: Linux
Database: MySQL 5.6.23
PHP Version: 5.4.45

error log states at line 13, PHP Warning: mysql_insert_id(): Access denied for user

in /includes/modules/pages/testimonials_add/header_php.php look for the following three lines

13  require(DIR_WS_FUNCTIONS . 'testimonials.php');

29  $testimonials_id = zen_db_prepare_input($_POST['testimonials_id']);

93  $testimonials_id = zen_db_insert_id(); 

you can comment them out or delete all three lines, no need for them. If for some reason you want to keep the id, use

$db->Insert_ID()
instead of
zen_db_insert_id()

you can Remove the file /functions/testimonials.php it's not needed and calls to mysql_insert_id() which creates the error. This may not be an issue with older PHP versions.

You don't say which version of Zen Cart you're using, but having that direct mysql_ function call isn't going to "play nice" with Zen Cart v1.5.2 or later (since those later versions use mysqli_ function calls).

lat9:

You don't say which version of Zen Cart you're using, but having that direct mysql_ function call isn't going to "play nice" with Zen Cart v1.5.2 or later (since those later versions use mysqli_ function calls).

Zen Cart 1.5.4

Missed adding that bit... the id is not used at all in the way the code is asking, so removing it completely wouldn't heart anything even for later versions.

davewest:

Zen Cart 1.5.4

Missed adding that bit... the id is not used at all in the way the code is asking, so removing it completely wouldn't heart anything even for later versions.
FWIW, that's what I've been doing on installations that require this plugin.

Does anyone know if this has been updated for 1.5.5 yet?
Thanks

Hi, I've got this excellent plugin installed on our site. I have v1.5.5 of Zen Cart installed.

English language version of site - https://www.welsh-lovespoons.co.uk/testimonials
Welsh language version of site - https://www.llwyaucaru.com/gairda

I was just wondering how the meta tags for the individual testimonial pages should work? Currently the meta tag title, description and keywords for all of my testimonials are exactly the same, no content is taken from the text added (title or body) in the testimonial themselves. Is this how it should work? Thanks for any advice.

Here is an example of one of the testimonial pages - https://www.welsh-lovespoons.co.uk/index.php?main_page=testimonials_manager&testimonials_id=522

The meta tags are as follows. This is exactly the same for each and every testimonial which isn't great for google.

<title>Testimonial : Welsh Love Spoons, Hand Carved Lovespoons from Wales</title>
<meta name="keywords" content="welsh love spoons, lovespoons, love spoons, love spoon, lovespoon, welsh lovespoons, celtic lovespoon, celtic love spoon, cadwyn Testimonial" />
<meta name="description" content="Welsh Love Spoons : Testimonial - welsh love spoons, lovespoons, love spoons, love spoon, lovespoon, welsh lovespoons, celtic lovespoon, celtic love spoon, cadwyn" />

Thanks for any advice.

bonheddwr:

Hi, I've got this excellent plugin installed on our site. I have v1.5.5 of Zen Cart installed.

English language version of site - https://www.welsh-lovespoons.co.uk/testimonials
Welsh language version of site - https://www.llwyaucaru.com/gairda

I was just wondering how the meta tags for the individual testimonial pages should work? Currently the meta tag title, description and keywords for all of my testimonials are exactly the same, no content is taken from the text added (title or body) in the testimonial themselves. Is this how it should work? Thanks for any advice.
Sounds like the plugin hasn't been written to consider metatags.

To do that it would need to:

• figure out which testimonial is currently displayed
• generate relevant metatags for that
• update the default metatags to the ones for the displayed testimonial

The default logic for calculating metatags is in /includes/modules/meta_tags.php
Since v1.5.5 there's support built in to allow writing of Observer classes which avoid having to edit the actual metatags module file itself. But if you don't mind merging your customizations done to the original file when you upgrade next, you can just edit it directly with the requisite logic.

does this allow for guests to make a testimonial without having to login?

cheers, Mike

shags38:

does this allow for guests to make a testimonial without having to login?

cheers, Mike

No, they need an account.

There is a admin switch that turns off/on registered only! so yes none account holders can do testimonials...

davewest:

There is a admin switch that turns off/on registered only! so yes none account holders can do testimonials...

I stand corrected.

Only registered customers may submit a testimonial is a true/false option.

Regarding Meta Tags:

I have Testimonials Manager running on 1.5.5e

There is some code in the instructions which needs to be applied into meta_tags.php

This is what it says in the read me

9. This section is entirely optional.
   To implement metatags for your testimonials;
   open includes/modules/meta_tags.php.
   locate the following line of code (around line 336)
   // NO "break" here. Allow defaults if not overridden at the per-page level
   Immediately above this line copy and paste the code below.
   (save the edited file to includes/modules/YOUR_TEMPLATE/meta_tags.php and upload to your server.

break;
//TESTIMONIALS:
case 'display_all_testimonials':

$sql = "select * from " . TABLE_TESTIMONIALS_MANAGER . " where status = 1 and language_id = '" . (int)$_SESSION['languages_id'] . "' order by date_added DESC, testimonials_title";
$testimonials = $db->Execute($sql);
while (!$testimonials->EOF) {
$testimonial_string_metatags .= zen_clean_html($testimonials->fields['testimonials_title']) . METATAGS_DIVIDER;

$testimonials->MoveNext();

} //EOF
define('META_TAG_TITLE', META_TAG_TITLE_PAGE_TESTIMONIALS_MANAGER_ALL_TESTIMONIALS . $testimonial_string_metatags);
define('META_TAG_DESCRIPTION', META_TAG_TITLE_PAGE_TESTIMONIALS_MANAGER_ALL_TESTIMONIALS . $testimonial_string_metatags);
define('META_TAG_KEYWORDS', META_TAG_TITLE_PAGE_TESTIMONIALS_MANAGER_ALL_TESTIMONIALS . $testimonial_string_metatags);
break;

case 'testimonials_manager':
define('META_TAG_TITLE', META_TAG_TITLE_PAGE_TESTIMONIALS_MANAGER . $page_check->fields['testimonials_title']);
define('META_TAG_DESCRIPTION', META_TAG_TITLE_PAGE_TESTIMONIALS_MANAGER . zen_trunc_string($page_check->fields['testimonials_html_text'],TESTIMONIALS_MANAGER_DESCRIPTION_LENGTH));
define('META_TAG_KEYWORDS', META_TAG_TITLE_PAGE_TESTIMONIALS_MANAGER . $page_check->fields['testimonials_title']);

Trouble is, when I add this code I get this output:

Any ideas why it would put META_TAG_TITLE_PAGE_TESTIMONIALS_MANAGER, META_TAG_TITLE_PAGE_TESTIMONIALS_MANAGER, and META_TAG_TITLE_PAGE_TESTIMONIALS_MANAGER before the actual tag content ?

I think I have an idea but not sure.

Nick1973:

Regarding Meta Tags:

I have Testimonials Manager running on 1.5.5e

There is some code in the instructions which needs to be applied into meta_tags.php

I think I have an idea but not sure.

your most likely thinking you need to add something to languages

// Testimonial manager meta tags
define('META_TAG_TITLE_PAGE_TESTIMONIALS_MANAGER_ALL_TESTIMONIALS', 'SOME WORDS  '); 
define('META_TAG_TITLE_PAGE_TESTIMONIALS_MANAGER', 'SOME WORDS  ');

I did to includes/languages/english/YOUR_TEMPLATE/meta_tags.php

Or none, depending on what common wording you want to have for each post... I use my site name.