Product Type Book (by moku)

hmmm... maybe it is MySQL cuz i am running 4.0.25. let me try to uprade and see wat happens...

(thanks for the superfast response!!!)

Mr. Moku,
Is there any new update for Product Type Book that integrate with Easy Populate? Or whats a trick to populate thousand of items to DB with Product Type Book?

Thanks

bene:

Is there any new update for Product Type Book that integrate with Easy Populate? Or whats a trick to populate thousand of items to DB with Product Type Book?

Actually I'm working on a great improvement of the authors features (by using another contribution "Products Persons"). So the current Book Authors infos will be changed to use "Products Persons" structure.
You can have two examples of a feature of "Products Persons" here (persons are listed in the mode 'names') and here (listed in the mode 'roles')

As soon as the cores of "Product Type Book" (and "Products Languages") are finished and useable enough, I will work on the integration with "Easy Populate".

Sorry for keeping you waiting.

Kind regards,

moku

Hi Zenners,

Is it possible to relayout the admin product-book page when keying in new titles?

I would like to rearrange mine to work in my order when I'm keying in, is this remotely possible?

Could someone please point me into the correct direction - I had studied admin/product_book.php but couldn't see the order of what I was trying to do...

I had posted here but got no answer and thought perhaps I posted in the wrong forum... apologies about this..
http://www.zen-cart.com/forum/showthread.php?t=37464

butterflyo:

Is it possible to relayout the admin product-book page when keying in new titles?
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I had posted here but got no answer and thought perhaps I posted in the wrong forum... apologies about this..

I replyed there:
http://www.zen-cart.com/forum/showthread.php?p=214955#post214955

Moku, you're a legend! Thank you!! :clap:
I'll have a go at the preview but my coding is zilch, so will take me a while, hopefully someone else will also jump in and contribute.

Hey moku!

Great job on book type. Works like a charm on 1.3.1. I'm just curious if you gave any look into easy populate addon, to work with product type book?

tnx

Mr. Moku,
How to adding Book_Authors and it's attribut (authors desc, photo, web-links, etc..) into product display?

Thanks in advance

Great stuff moku. I abandoned my product type SheetMusic during the upgrade to 1.3.0.x in favour of your effort. However, before I hack in the Media Manager module into my copy of product type Book, has anyone else hacked it in first???

I need sheet music items to display a sample copy of the score or an MP3 sample of the piece. Guess I can just put some HTML in the product description with a link to the media but the MM seems more fun.

Cheers,
Rob

Hi Moku, (and anyone else, chime in if you can help me)

I'm really looking forward to your final version of this. I downloaded "product_type_book-moku-v1.1-2006-04-28.zip" Is this the latest? When do you expect to finalize? (Not meaning to rush you, just wondering whether it might be easier to wait until you finish your author features, if that is happening soon.)

Also, I had previously installed a different Product Type Book (zen_demo_book.0.5) that did not work very well (at least not with ZenCart 1.3 and Chinese), so I want to delete it and replace it with yours.

• Would I have a conflict installing your book type to replace that one? (and what's the best way to do that?)
• Does your version have multi-language support?

Thanks!

Very cool mod. It will be a great add-on to my site.

labrat:

Great stuff moku. I abandoned my product type SheetMusic during the upgrade to 1.3.0.x in favour of your effort. However, before I hack in the Media Manager module into my copy of product type Book, has anyone else hacked it in first???

Has no one hacked in the Media Manager into another Product Type? I did once apon a time but unfortunately forgot ;-(

Oh well, I'll start again...

What do you mean by this:

You may have to change the default ID for "product_type_id". The default I used
is "7", but please manually check that this ID is not already used on your
"zc_product_types" table!

And what should I change this number too. I am not very familar with php, so I don't know what you are talking about.

i got the following error while enetering in info for authors. when i hit back it would give me the same. now, i get this same error when i try to go to any page that modifies my products...

1062 Duplicate entry '0' for key 1
in:
[insert into admin_activity_log (access_date, admin_id, page_accessed, page_parameters, ip_address) values (now(), '1', 'product_types.php', '', '127.0.0.1')]
If you were entering information, press the BACK button in your browser and re-check the information you had entered to be sure you left no blank fields.

nevermind, i thought it might have been due to this mod but it is not. i have found the soution. :)

if i want to display books in two different laguages, i can do that by using the language feuture from this mod and not have to install another language, is that right?

ctcentralinfo:

What do you mean by this:

"You may have to change the default ID for "product_type_id". The default I used
is "7", but please manually check that this ID is not already used on your
"zc_product_types" table!"

And what should I change this number too. I am not very familar with php, so I don't know what you are talking about.

Before installing this mod:

1. Go to your zen database in PHPMyAdmin (or whatever interface to the db you are using).
2. Select the table product_types
3. browse this table and look at the type_id is there any that are number 7? If this is a fresh install then probably not.
4. Is there a product_type_id number 7? If not then there is no problem. If so then follow the instructions in the mod on how to fix.

Good luck.

Hi all!

Sorry to reply this late! m(_ _)m

teva:

Great job on book type. Works like a charm on 1.3.1. I'm just curious if you gave any look into easy populate addon, to work with product type book?

Not yet, not yet, sorry. It will be done after finishing all the cores features.

bene:

How to adding Book_Authors and it's attribut (authors desc, photo, web-links, etc..) into product display?

On the current "Product Type Book" there is nothing to do it (but it should not be difficult to code it yourself). In the future release, though, "Products Persons" is much more useful (you can track the developments changes on my website -- there is no changelog though)

labrat:

I abandoned my product type SheetMusic during the upgrade to 1.3.0.x in favour of your effort. However, before I hack in the Media Manager module into my copy of product type Book, has anyone else hacked it in first???

I need sheet music items to display a sample copy of the score or an MP3 sample of the piece. Guess I can just put some HTML in the product description with a link to the media but the MM seems more fun.

Of course putting HTML is the simplier, but it would be much more interesting to use ZC features! :-)
I did not tried to look inside this, sorry.
But if you write something that can be used by more people and for books, let's try to join our effort to release a single contribution!

wickedwebs:

I'm really looking forward to your final version of this. I downloaded "product_type_book-moku-v1.1-2006-04-28.zip" Is this the latest?

The latest is still "product_type_book-moku-v1.2-2006-05-12.zip" (you should find it here), wich requires "products_languages-moku-v0.1-2006-05-12.zip" (downloadable at the same location).

I think everybody already noticed it, but I've getting quite busy with other problems, so I currently don't work on "Product Type Book" as much as I would like, but it's still a work I need, so I guess we can have great hopes I will finish it! ;-)

When do you expect to finalize? (Not meaning to rush you, just wondering whether it might be easier to wait until you finish your author features, if that is happening soon.)

Also, I had previously installed a different Product Type Book (zen_demo_book.0.5) that did not work very well (at least not with ZenCart 1.3 and Chinese), so I want to delete it and replace it with yours.

• Would I have a conflict installing your book type to replace that one? (and what's the best way to do that?)
• Does your version have multi-language support?

Yep, "Product Type Book" does support multi-languages.
I did not think of any migration tools nor any HOWTO. But as far as nor filenames nor databases tables names (or product_type_id in product_types table) conflits, I think both should work together. Before doing anything, don't forget: backup, backup, BACKUP!

tekram:

if i want to display books in two different laguages, i can do that by using the language feuture from this mod and not have to install another language, is that right?

Yes, there is no need to install more ZC Store Languages. The "book languages" feature is provided by "Products Languages".

labrat:

Before installing this mod: [...]

Thanks labrat!

Hey moku!

Can you help on this issue. When i click on genre i get redirected to http://www.myurl.com/?book_genre_id=1&typefilter=book_genre which says There are no products to list in this category. Althou there are. Any idea what's wrong?
Same thing happens if i click on author.

tnx

with respect to multiple languages, i currently have my boks displayed in english however, the titles are actually translierarted. ie they are written in english letters. the bok titles are in arabic. i want to display the bok title in the arabic script also. what is the easiest way to do this.

thanks