Google Checkout module for ZC 1.3.x (beta)

Woodymon:

Amy-

1. At first glance It appears you don't have the GC mod uploaded/installed correctly.

Note the path in the above errors. /www is repeated in the path in both errors

2. Also, generally when hard coding the store path anywhere (e.g. your two Zen Cart configure.php files) should use /public_html instead of "/www". But you may have have a non-standard hosting configuration (check with your hosting provider if not sure).

Woody

That must be my hosting setup b/c I didn't config it that way. How should I go about fixing it?

Amy

Woodymon:

1. I don't observe GoogleCheckout (GC) is installed on your site. The GC does not appear on either the login or shopping cart pages.

Maybe you have a development site where you are testing GC mod?

2. Also on your live site the add to cart button is not not redirecting to the shopping cart page.If not certain how to resolve that may want to ask on one of the Configuring Zen Cart boards.

3. The error above appears related to the other errors you reported today. I suspect you have some code from different GC mod versions uploaded. Possibly did not overwrite an older mod file when upgrading the mod?

Woody

I just turned it back on for you. It was off. I had a customer actually order through the sandbox and ignored the sandbox info. Once my shipping is working, I expect the whole thing will work well. But right now, anyone can choose free shipping even though on my site freeshipping only applies for certain scenarios.

Also, another question, will this mod deduct what someone orders from my inventory? It appears that will be something that I need to do manually.

Thanks for all your help! Amy

Woodymon:
Is anyone in the Zen Cart Support team testing the GC module using a Windows host?

My hosting is via Windows II6.0. (other apps - PHP 5.2.1 and ZEN-CART 1.3.7). Early in this forum (back when Ropu was involved) someone mentioned an issue using Windows' Servers - I tried to find it again and could not...

Anyway, back to my original question regarding Windows hosting. I attempted to install and test the latest version; google-checkout-zencart-v1.3RC2.zip. I am not asking how to fix the current version of the GC. I know that you and others are working very hard to get this module up to speed - and believe me, I personally thank you for the effort and the energy - wow. All I am asking is concerning the use of Windows servers... am I waiting for something that will not happen, or is there someone looking into the Windows side of the module?

Thank you,
jund

Doodlebuckets:

That must be my hosting setup b/c I didn't config it that way. How should I go about fixing it?
Contact your web hosting provider to confirm that directory path to both your "home directory" and your "webroot". The path might be ok but looks strange/incorrect to me.

Woody

Doodlebuckets:

I just turned it back on for you. It was off. I had a customer actually order through the sandbox and ignored the sandbox info. Once my shipping is working, I expect the whole thing will work well. But right now, anyone can choose free shipping even though on my site freeshipping only applies for certain scenarios.

I would turn off and install a second test verion of Zen Cart along with the GC mod. Then test on that set-up. Then when you have GC working as you need move those GC config settings over to your live shop.

Yes there are issues with FreeSHipper and GC. Ropu is working on those issues right now. Watch for another posting on the subject.

Doodlebuckets:

Also, another question, will this mod deduct what someone orders from my inventory? It appears that will be something that I need to do manually.

When customers purchase with Google Checkout, inventory control and other back-end operations should work normally (Zen Cart still controls stockeeping functionality).

Woody

Woodymon:

Contact your web hosting provider to confirm that directory path to both your "home directory" and your "webroot". The path might be ok but looks strange/incorrect to me.

Woody

This is what they gave me:

The system path to your home directory (where all your account files are located) is:

/home/doodlebu

The system path to the webroot (where the web files for your main domain are located) is:

/home/doodlebu/www/www

jund:

Is anyone in the Zen Cart Support team testing the GC module using a Windows host?
I donl;t think the ZC Support team are testing or even utilzing Google Checkout at this time. They are PayPal people now.

jund:

My hosting is via Windows II6.0. (other apps - PHP 5.2.1 and ZEN-CART 1.3.7). Early in this forum (back when Ropu was involved) someone mentioned an issue using Windows' Servers - I tried to find it again and could not...

Ropu is still actively developing the mod. Watch for an announce soon.

Not actively testing on IIS but I'm certain once the mod development has settled down then IIS testing will occur.

There were indeed some posts in the last several months from merchants whom had issues with IIS and posted solutions. If I recall had they had to customize the server authentication code and/or adjust cURL proxy or similar.

Maybe search this thread (since the beginning of this year) on "authentication" or "IIS******" (asterisks are wildcards as this forum does not support search on short words... argh).

Will update the mod knowledge base and FAQ with IIS related info in the near future.

Woody

Doodlebuckets:

The system path to the webroot (where the web files for your main domain are located) is:
/home/doodlebu/www/www

Ok. as long as your host says it is correc that is what matters.

Normally you would see something like:
/home/doodlebu/public_html/

Reagrads to your reported "functions previously declared" errors, this means that duplicate function code is already loaded in server memory. So you likely have duplicate functions in code from Google Checkout mod versions installed which is causing this.

Suggest uninstalling the mod, downloading the latest "current" 1.2RC3 version and re-upload EACH mod file and overwriting any previous GC files installed and remove no longer used GC mod files. Of course back up before doing this. And if you have customized any of the Zen Cart core files or template files which are also included in the mod you will want to merge the code together.

Again best to not test on a live/production.

Woody

A new TEST version will be available very soon.
Currently titled: v1.4-Alpha

Available from the SVN site (branches/1.4-alpha).
Not yet available as a .zip file.

PLEASE do not download until tomorrow (appx 24 hours) as Ropu is making last minute changes. Will post the updated SVN URL and the zip archive download URL when ready.

1. v1.4-Alpha is for testing on a DEVELOPMENT server only. Not intended for a live/production environment.

2. If you do not like to test and troubleshoot then DO NOT INSTALL the new version.

3. After v1.4-Alpha version is thoroughly tested by the "community" with satisfactory results, a post will be made to the mod support forum regards to the "status" of the mod and updated recommends regarding installing in a live environment. (Of course the "alpha" moniker will not longer apply then).

In the meantime, if you want to roll-out GC into a production shop (with the limitations documented in this thread) then install 1.3RC2 and apply the fixes posted to this thread.

4. No updater is provided with v1.4-Alpha. So if not installing the mod fresh you should, AFTER BACKING UP, COMPLETELY remove your previous GC mod version directories/files on your test shop set-up before installing the new version. More details to come.

5. No documentation is provided with the v1.4 alpha version. A changelog and other documentation will be forthcoming.

6. DO NOT MIX v1.4 alpha version code with previous mod version code.

7. Please post issues with the alpha version here to this thread, identifying the version you have installed. Please be very specific in your observations and error reports. Review this thread if you need to know what types of info is helpful when posting issues to this support thread.

Stay tuned,

Woody

Woodymon:

Ok. as long as your host says it is correc that is what matters.
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Woodymon:

Reagrads to your reported "functions previously declared" errors, this means that duplicate function code is already loaded in server memory.
Reagrads = Regards

Woodymon:

Again best to not test on a live/production.
Meant to say: best to not test the mod on a live/production shop. It is still beta (and the new 1.4 version is alpha).

Woody

I look forward to hearing what changes have been made and testing it out.

Woodymon:

TJ1-

It's been repeatedly requested that you post the content of the two arrays in your GC payment module file. But you have yet to do that. Why?

Woody

Sorry about that, missed your post. I did post this before a while back, along with Isaac, but it got buried with all the new post, just before you went on vacation I think.

Anyway, below is what I have. The USPS and Free Shipping Option Module are the only two mods I use. Have you had a chance to test yourself if it works on your site?

'international_types' => 
                                      array( 
                                          'Express Mail Int' => 'Express Mail International (EMS)', 
                                          'Priority Mail International' => 'Priority Mail International', 
                                          'First-Class Mail Int' => 'First-Class Mail International', 
                                           ),

Woodymon:

A new TEST version will be available very soon.
Currently titled: v1.4-Alpha

Available from the SVN site (branches/1.4-alpha).
Not yet available as a .zip file.

Woody

I'll be happy to test once available.
What's the 'SVN site'? Can you give a link please?

tj1:

I'll be happy to test once available.
What's the 'SVN site'? Can you give a link please?

Not ready yet. Will post the TESTING version SVN URL and zip URL on Friday as many updates are happening to the code right now and which have yet to be committed to SVN.

The 1.4-alpha code may include support for "Orders Totals" mods, including "Low Order Fee". There are complexities in supporting other ZC OT modules (besides tax, ship and coupons), since GC does not natively support them. Ropu is still working out the logic.

You should install an SVN client to retrieve (checkout) the various code commits via SVN (Tortoise is a good Windows SVN client). Can use to manage separate "repositories" including both the current SVN "trunk" (1.3RC2) and the various SVN "branches" (including the testing 1.4-alpha).

Woody

tj1:

Below is what I have. The USPS and Free Shipping Option Module are the only two mods I use.

As previously requested it is best to post the COMPLETE code for the two arrays.

And as suggested previously, for "testing" please UNINSTALL the 'Free Shipping' shipping mod, then try USPS with GC (ensuring mentions of Free SHipping is removed from the two arrays).

Then also test the following two set-ups (also without Free Shipping installed):

'international_types' => 
                                      array( 
                                         'First-Class Mail Int' => 'First-Class Mail International', 
                                       ),

AND

'international_types' => 
                                      array( 
                                         'Express Mail Int' => 'Express Mail International (EMS)', 
                                       ),

Let us know how the results of the testing for the above THREE configurations.

The more info we can provide Ropu the better.

Woody

Hi, I've got a new installation of GC 1.3 RC2 here:

http://www.ssri.biz/cart/

When I add items to my cart and go to the 'checkout' page, I always get a greyed out disabled "Google Checkout not available for these items" button.

It's in production mode. I've triple-checked my merchant ID/Key and other configuration options, made sure I'm not on a PHP over CGI host.

I've crawled through this thread quite a bit looking for help, but I'm not finding anything especially useful, except to be sure my configuration settings are correct.

Can anyone point me in the right direction?

Thanks!

• canton becker
  SSRI.biz / Ottmar Liebert

canton:

Hi, I've got a new installation of GC 1.3 RC2 here:

http://www.ssri.biz/cart/

When I add items to my cart and go to the 'checkout' page, I always get a greyed out disabled "Google Checkout not available for these items" button.

It's in production mode. I've triple-checked my merchant ID/Key and other configuration options, made sure I'm not on a PHP over CGI host.

I've crawled through this thread quite a bit looking for help, but I'm not finding anything especially useful, except to be sure my configuration settings are correct.

Can anyone point me in the right direction?

Thanks!

• canton becker
  SSRI.biz / Ottmar Liebert

How did things go when you were testing?

Can you supply logs from the error files?

chain_man:

How did things go when you were testing?

Can you supply logs from the error files?

Hi actually I figured out the issue with this one from a forum on google's support pages:

• A disabled button is displayed in the following cases:
  • 1. If merchant id or merchant key is not set
  • 2. If there are multiple shipping options selected and they use different
       shipping tax tables
  • or some dont use tax tables
  • 3. The cart is empty

My case was #2 -- I had two different shipping options with two different tax tables - which worked fine for zencart checkout but not GC.

But now I'm on to a new problem! Read below... :)

canton:

Hi actually I figured out the issue with this one from a forum on google's support pages. My case was #2 -- I had two different shipping options with two different tax tables - which worked fine for zencart checkout but not GC.

But now I'm on to a new problem! Read below... :)
Thanks for the report. Yes that is an issue with Google Checkout, nothing to do with the mod itself. As we go along here we discover the Google Checkout API engineers have mysteriously left out support for some common ecommerce functionality. Recommend posting your wishlist of desired features and functions to both the Google Checkout Merchants And Developer support forums. The more merchants that do this the better.

Read below?

-Woody

My zen cart's native checkout has no trouble doing international USPS shipping (two methods: Express Mail International & First-Class Mail International)

If I try to use GC to ship to any address outside of USA, GC "does not ship to this address" -

I have the may 14 USPS update installed.

I've tried using the shippings methods generator to insert new arrays into my googlecheckout.php -- but no joy. It broke everything Except shipping to New Mexico (my taxable state.)

You can see my installed methods by hitting

https://www.ssri.biz/cart/googlecheckout/shipping_generator

or by doing a regular checkout from http://www.ssri.biz/cart

Thanks for any ideas,

• canton