Testimonial Manager Support Thread

In todays world of spam, is it possible to keep the "email" off the results page, once an approval of the testimonial has been made? I have testimonial manager set so that non-registered users can add a testimonial, but they won't be happy to see their email addresses prominently displayed. I'd like to keep it in admin on the edit page, but not show it on the live page result side.

I found a way around it, but because I have to explain this to the owner, I'd rather just save her the step of removing the email in the admin edit page. (just using email@ on admin edit page removes email address from live site) but she may not always remember to change that email and she may want to have a copy of the email addresses people supply.

I'm well versed enough that I could remove this from the page in templates you tell me to remove, but I think it would be better if you add it as an option when one is setting there preferences for this addon. Even going so far as to allowing the admin person to display the items they want displayed.

Marian

By the way.. this is an amazing addon. One of the easiest installs.. and worked perfectly first time out of the gate. I added a testimonial with no problems. I would definitely rank it among one of the best addons for zencart.

One thing I did notice, it said there were no overwritten files, but it does want to overwrite a file in admin/includes/functions/html_output.php and possibly you could add that to the install file so people know to copy or back it up first before they overwrite it.

Marian

Sorry.. ignore, added this message so I could receive notification in my email. :/ No way to edit this when forgotten on forum.

Seamstobesew:

In todays world of spam, is it possible to keep the "email" off the results page, once an approval of the testimonial has been made? I have testimonial manager set so that non-registered users can add a testimonial, but they won't be happy to see their email addresses prominently displayed. I'd like to keep it in admin on the edit page, but not show it on the live page result side.

I found a way around it, but because I have to explain this to the owner, I'd rather just save her the step of removing the email in the admin edit page. (just using email@ on admin edit page removes email address from live site) but she may not always remember to change that email and she may want to have a copy of the email addresses people supply.

I'm well versed enough that I could remove this from the page in templates you tell me to remove, but I think it would be better if you add it as an option when one is setting there preferences for this addon. Even going so far as to allowing the admin person to display the items they want displayed.

Marian

By default NO e-mail address is is shown on either the single testimonial or all testimonial display pages.

Seamstobesew:

By the way.. this is an amazing addon. One of the easiest installs.. and worked perfectly first time out of the gate. I added a testimonial with no problems. I would definitely rank it among one of the best addons for zencart.

One thing I did notice, it said there were no overwritten files, but it does want to overwrite a file in admin/includes/functions/html_output.php and possibly you could add that to the install file so people know to copy or back it up first before they overwrite it.

Marian

:oops: Thanks, That file will be removed at soon as I upload an update to the mod.

I must have overlooked the removal of the file when I did the zip package for the mod.

Hi Clyde
I am trying to enter new testimonial, but when I try to upload a picture it dose not let me,
I don’t get any error, it is just not let me finish update until I remove the link of the picture I am trying to add
Also is it possible for me to create a new category in my /images/testimonial, so I can put my entire testimonial picture there?
Thank you

motti:

Hi Clyde
I am trying to enter new testimonial, but when I try to upload a picture it dose not let me,
I don’t get any error, it is just not let me finish update until I remove the link of the picture I am trying to add
Also is it possible for me to create a new category in my /images/testimonial, so I can put my entire testimonial picture there?
Thank you

Check for e-mail!

Cool

Thank you Clyde you are the best

Hi,

I downloaded your TM and can't find a layout box for it in Admin? I noticed another guy had the same problem, but I couldn't find the response for it.

Steps taken,

1. Uploaded files and changed file name to match my template
2. Uploaded sequel patch via admin cut & paste
3. Able to see TM in Configuration
4. Able to see TM in Tools

But I can't see it in Sidebox Layout Controller. :cry:

Any ideas?

Vicky

TrvlFox:

Hi,

I downloaded your TM and can't find a layout box for it in Admin? I noticed another guy had the same problem, but I couldn't find the response for it.

Steps taken,

1. Uploaded files and changed file name to match my template
2. Uploaded sequel patch via admin cut & paste
3. Able to see TM in Configuration
4. Able to see TM in Tools

But I can't see it in Sidebox Layout Controller. :cry:

Any ideas?

Vicky
as a double check make sure you've renamed the YOUR_TEMPLATE folder to match the name of your custom template. Here's a list:

includes/languages/english/YOUR_TEMPLATE
includes/languages/english/html_includes/YOUR_TEMPLATE
includes/modules/sideboxes/YOUR_TEMPLATE
includes/templates/YOUR_TEMPLATE

...boy am I having a blond moment.....:blink:

That was it. I didn't realize how many areas there were. You might want to consider listing it in the read me file.

Vicky

Is there anyway I can make email and URL optional?

TrvlFox:

Is there anyway I can make email and URL optional?

admin side or catalog side?

I guess Admin side or both. I don't want to have people email my customers when they might not want that. I rather keep it optional

TrvlFox:

I guess Admin side or both. I don't want to have people email my customers when they might not want that. I rather keep it optional

E-mail addresses do not (by default) appear in any testimonials. So no one reading a testimonial would be able to e-mail your customers. and is available on the admin side.

The e-mail address is there for you in case you would like to contact the author of the testimonial.

There is no URL option on the add testimonial page.

The URL option in admin is optional.

TrvlFox:

I guess Admin side or both. I don't want to have people email my customers when they might not want that. I rather keep it optional

Here is an example of the testimonials mod in use. As you can see there are no email addresses anywhere.

http://www.moissaniteco.com/testimonials_manager_all_testimonials.html

Hey thanks so much! See that now. So it all makes perfect sense to me.

I have it running on my site, and I'm adding last years emails. So I was only focusing on the admin side.

Thanks again

I love this... perfect to promote in general my store rather than using review for one item!:clap:

I know you said that the email on the customer side doesn't show up and it doesn't for me either, but I'd swear it did on my first test testimonial I wrote as a test, I think that might be why some people ask about that. It's odd, because I would swear I saw that on the customer side and wrote to you then about removing it, and then after seeing your response I saw you were right about how they don't show up, but it does make me curious why other people might be asking that same question.

Either or, that's not what I'm writing to about today, I am writing to ask if it's at all possible for you to allow us to set our own path for the images. I prefer that images don't go to images/ but instead I would have made a folder in images for testimonials so they'd go to images/testimonials or perhaps I'd use an already created folder.

I ask this because it can somtimes take folders along time to load after they get so many files in them and it would be nicer if we could sort these to a folder of our choice.

This is still an amazing addon, and my client loves it on her site.

Please give this a consideration.

Thank you,

Marian

Seamstobesew:

I know you said that the email on the customer side doesn't show up and it doesn't for me either, but I'd swear it did on my first test testimonial I wrote as a test, I think that might be why some people ask about that. It's odd, because I would swear I saw that on the customer side and wrote to you then about removing it, and then after seeing your response I saw you were right about how they don't show up, but it does make me curious why other people might be asking that same question.

Either or, that's not what I'm writing to about today, I am writing to ask if it's at all possible for you to allow us to set our own path for the images. I prefer that images don't go to images/ but instead I would have made a folder in images for testimonials so they'd go to images/testimonials or perhaps I'd use an already created folder.

I ask this because it can somtimes take folders along time to load after they get so many files in them and it would be nicer if we could sort these to a folder of our choice.

This is still an amazing addon, and my client loves it on her site.

Please give this a consideration.

Thank you,

Marian

Funny you should ask! I've been working on this as an added option. I haven't posted an update to the downloads section yet though. Two other options allow you to set the height and width of the image(s).

So... Here you are.

As always Backup First. unzip the file, copy and paste the upgrade_testimonial_manager.sql to admin -> tools -> install sql patches and click the send button.

Rename the YOUR_TEMPLATE folder to match the name of your custom folder name. (includes/templates/YOUR_TEMPLATE)

upload the admin and includes folders to your server.

You will also have to reconfigure testimonial manager admin -> configuration -> testimonial manager

The image HEIGHT and WIDTH default to 80
The image directory defaults to "testimonials/"

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I see this when update SQL:

Success 23 statements processed.
Error ERROR: Cannot insert configuration_key "MAX_DISPLAY_TESTIMONIALS_MANAGER_TITLES" because it already exists
Error ERROR: Cannot insert configuration_key "DISPLAY_TESTIMONIALS_MANAGER_TRUNCATED_TEXT" because it already exists
Error ERROR: Cannot insert configuration_key "TESTIMONIALS_MANAGER_DESCRIPTION_LENGTH" because it already exists
Error ERROR: Cannot insert configuration_key "MAX_DISPLAY_TESTIMONIALS_MANAGER_ALL_TESTIMONIALS" because it already exists
Error ERROR: Cannot insert configuration_key "DISPLAY_TESTIMONIALS_DATE_PUBLISHED" because it already exists
Error ERROR: Cannot insert configuration_key "DISPLAY_ALL_TESTIMONIALS_TESTIMONIALS_MANAGER_LINK" because it already exists
Error ERROR: Cannot insert configuration_key "REGISTERED_TESTIMONIAL" because it already exists
Warning Note: 7 statements ignored. See "upgrade_exceptions" table for additional details.