Hello TreeWoman and FreshStart,
Welcome to our little corner of the ZC world.
First TreeWoman, I will try to answer, it just may not be what you are looking for.
treewoman:
I keep getting this error upon checkout -
Please update your order ...
Product Name: Bariatric Mattress Only 48 W ... Quantity Units errors -
You ordered a total of: 1 Min: 0 Units: 0
I only get this error with the products I entered using epa.
The minimum, units and quantity all show up the same in the products manually entered as the products entered via epa.
I have tried to turn off any type of inventory control using the stock, listing and product type edits but nothing takes this error message off. The only way it disappeared was when I went into an item (first entered using epa) manually and changed the product quantity from 1 to 99999. I have over 8000 products that I entered using several different databases. I really don't want to go into the databases and change all the quantities again. I just want to disable any type of inventory control (which I thought I did). I don't have inventory issues.
One more epa related problem - I cannot add or change the quantity of products ordered on any of the items entered using epa. The manual products all have a quantity altering button available at the product description page and the checkout page but never for the epa loaded products.
Any ideas?
As TJ1 mentioned, you should be asking at the location that you purchased EPA, or EPA's site. The code is most likely byte-compiled, meaning it is not open to the public for review, or modification. Now the good news. Instead of changing the product quantity one by one, and even with the ability to do so removed by using EPA on individual editing pages, there is one easy way of doing so.
In ZenCart, in the admin section, not the catalog the customers view, you will see a tab labeled Tools, and under that Install SQL patches (Tools > Install SQL patches). What you will do is issue an UPDATE command, just make note if you created the databases with a prefix (i.e, zc_) or not. The command is as follows:
UPDATE (prefixIfNeeded)products SET products_quantity = '9999' WHERE products_quantity < '9999';
This will update everything to a quanity of 9999 if it is not already set to that value.
FreshStart, as noted above by TJ1, the older 1.2.5.4 version is the better of the two, and he provided links to it. As to the second part of your question, I'll give it a shot, and like my answer to TreeWoman, you may not like it.
freshstart:
Dear Colleagues,
New Zenner here. I note that there are two EasyPop versions available on Download. One is Easypop Langer and the other is Easypop from OSC. Which one is the best, in your opinion. In the meantime, I shall endeavour to read all of the post's associated with EP and try to locate an easy to read and understand method of installing the mod into Zencart.
On another note, why has the issue of there being no way to import XML live feed into Zencart not been resolved yet? If it has been resolved, please post details. On this latter issue, I have read the following article;
http://www.sitepoint.com/article/php-xml-parsing-rss-1-0
Thx.
freshstart.
I started to read the article that the link pointed to, I just didn't get past the opening paragraph or two. My first question is where would you get the live feed from? Do you know what the structure is? Everything is broken down into blocks, and that makes it easy, like reading an index card, yet harder if you don't know what order the information is presented in, the tag names, what can and can't be repeated, etc.
Do you realize that there is at least one module/add-on that I am aware of that exports XML? Yes, it is the one for Google, as Google requests the information that way for there on-line shops. There is also two or three modules that use XML to actively communicate with a third party in real time to verify information and update ZC (USPS/UPS [count as one big module, or two specialized, as you wish] and FedEx shipping modules). You can re-use some of the code provided to validate an address as it is entered when creating a new customer (though I don't see that happening in the code I have looked at), and it is used to verify the shipping address when an order is placed. It is also used to retrieve rate and estimated delivery time when an order is placed.
I don't want to discourage you, as the examples above show it is possible to use XML within ZenCart, even interactively. I have a vendor that puts out a data file that can be used with OSC with OSC's version of EP - version 2.74. I take the raw data from the file and work it over to conform to what I need, adjusting the product categories and set my sale prices mainly, yet I also look for bad links and typos that should not be there. Also, I will adjust the description more if I think it is needed, and to help keep it from looking like the exact same thing that a search engine has seen a hundred times before. You may just want to get the live feed on your own local computer, use a program to convert it to database entries, and check it over. Then you can export it, add the needed header line, and use EP to upload everything. I do believe it can be done in ZC, even if no-one has published a module for it.
Yes, Show Quantity Box No, Do not show Quantity Box
