MultiSite Module Support Thread

stav:

The category filtering is better when you want different categories on different sites,(the usualy this is needed), but if you want the same categories but with different products the product filtering is faster sollution.

BTW. Dou you solved the filtering on (products all, products new , products special, duplicated listing and advanced search pages)?..

Is there a solution for the "duplicated listing"? Since it isn't working yet for me and haven't found the solution at the forum.

A product filtering would be unneccessery in my case since it is filtered by catagory and the products should be displayed at all sites IF the catagory is at the site.

Allowing all products to display at the site as long as they are in one of the catagories on that site would be my answer.... But how can I do that?

jvoce:

Okay, so far I have this code written into the script, but it's obviously not completely working as I'm assuming that I either have it typed wrong, or the program doesn't understand what I'm asking it to do. Please give me some pointers.

<a href=http://store1.salvationarmy.ca . '$session'>Online Store</a>

> 
> I need the ability to place the site_link with zenid not only into the main section of a page, but I'll also need it to be placed in the code for the dropdown menu mod.
> 
> With the MultiSite Module I've set it up with different customer types, with two different levels of customers, some with access to more products. What I'm trying to do now is force everyone to login via the more secure login screen, and then be re-directed after that to the appropriate page. In essence I'm creating the illusion of two different levels of customers on one site. Something Zen is not yet able to do, but this is getting, REALLY, REALLY close, and I'd hate to see this pass by. It's quite important to our organization that only people with the right authority can buy certain products.

Anyone have any insights or thoughts on this?

Okay,

So after a short hiates from working on the website I'm trying to follow up with an idea reguarding the previously posted message.

However, before even changing anything, I'm now unable to even load one of my sites. It's very odd, as my other one is working fine. store1.salvationarmy.ca is working perfectly, however store2.salvationarmy.ca is not at all. Has anyone else run into this problem or have a theory as to why this might be.

Hello-

I am having problems installing the multisite module. As soon as I put the include_once('includes/config_sites/sites_switch.php');
in the configure.php file, the template disappears. please see this link for example: http://www.buttongarage.com/store

anyone got any ideas what I might be doing wrong?

Thanks!

Hi,

Can I confirm that the cart is shared across different sites, eg. if I add products to my cart in shop1 then visit shop2, the products from shop1 are still in my cart?

Thanks,
Marty

Just wanted to say a big THANK YOU!! to Gerome, for developing this mod, and to everyone for help in this forum!

It is working perfectly for us, and we are just starting the process of taking it live.

Again, THANK YOU EVERYONE

First, I just want to say that this is a fantastic effort you have going on! I download and installed it this afternoon, and it's (almost) exactly what I've been looking for. Everything is perfect, except for one little detail... Linked Products. What I would like to eventually do is have a master category, where the products are actually defined, and then have site directories, set as the root category for the individual sites, where the master categories products are linked into.

The categories menu does actually show the correct product count, but if you click into the category, they don't display. Is this something that could be easily done, or is there a good reason why it can't? Just thought I would consult with the guys who know this module the best, before tackling it, and possibly save myself days of getting up to speed on the module, and (quite possibly) pulling my hair out, if this is something that would actually be easy to implement, if you know the system well!

Thanks if advance, for any advice!

xstatik696:

First, I just want to say that this is a fantastic effort you have going on! I download and installed it this afternoon, and it's (almost) exactly what I've been looking for. Everything is perfect, except for one little detail... Linked Products. What I would like to eventually do is have a master category, where the products are actually defined, and then have site directories, set as the root category for the individual sites, where the master categories products are linked into.

The categories menu does actually show the correct product count, but if you click into the category, they don't display. Is this something that could be easily done, or is there a good reason why it can't? Just thought I would consult with the guys who know this module the best, before tackling it, and possibly save myself days of getting up to speed on the module, and (quite possibly) pulling my hair out, if this is something that would actually be easy to implement, if you know the system well!

Thanks if advance, for any advice!

That is also my last hurdle to take and didn't find the right answer yet. If there isn't a solution yet, I'm willing to help to solve the problem.

Thanks in advance.

Hi,

I haven't post for a while here, this is mainly because I moved to another city (Edinburgh), I have a new job (PHP Developer for Tribalogic.net), I don't have internet at home yet and unfortunately, I don't use Zencart for my new job.

However, I don't want to let you down !

As soon I will have internet at home, I will try to install a SVN repository for the multisite module, so everyone will be able to collaborate and optimise it as much as you want.

Thanks,

Gerome.

Is anyone here able to help me with my problem?

I am having problems installing the multisite module. As soon as I put the include_once('includes/config_sites/sites_switch.php');
in the configure.php file, the template disappears. please see this link for example: http://www.buttongarage.com/store

anyone got any ideas what I might be doing wrong?

Thanks!

Does any one know if it is possible to get all of my sites to use the same image folder? I have hundreds of images and copying them seems like a huge waist of time.

I would like for all images to be located at "images.mystore.com" where all my other stores are mystore.com, cat1.mystore.com, cat2.mystore.com, you get the idea

xstatik696:

What I would like to eventually do is have a master category, where the products are actually defined, and then have site directories, set as the root category for the individual sites, where the master categories products are linked into.

The categories menu does actually show the correct product count, but if you click into the category, they don't display. Is this something that could be easily done, or is there a good reason why it can't?

After wasting several hours on solving this problem, the solution for me is the following:

Be sure all the "original" products / 'master_categorie' are in a sub-categorie. Point these sub-categories to all the domains you want to use them in (multisite-admin-tool) and don't point the root/main-catagories to any domain.

This way the duplicated products of these "original"-products will show in the categories dedicated to the chosen sites.

Hope this helps.

I have my site set up so that the main site has many " root categories" i.e electronics, clothing. And my other sites have only electronics and clothing. I want the categories sidebox to display only the sub categories.

So for electronics it displays cell phones, digital cameras, etc. instead of just electronics

and for shoes it simply displays nike, reebok, etc. instead of just shoes.

I tried not including the "root category" (shoes, electronics) in the multisite tools but then no categories display

Nevermind I never installed the latest version. Fixed my problem.
:oops:

Having the multiSite module functional and running live...

Again, Big thanks to Gerome!!

Still there is one little issue left for now:

How to change the Invoice-logo and -store-address for each site?

The front end is easy to manage using the override but the back-end doesn't recognize from which site/store the Invoise is. Since there is the ORDERS_STORE it would be changeble........... but is there an easy sollution or am I missing something obvious??

I don't want to confuse my customers by sending an Invoice from a different store.

Thanks in advance.

Can somebody tell me if Multistore will do this ?

check this site

http://rc-mushroom.com/index.php

see how you can jump from "car" to "helicopter" .. it's the same store .. but when you jump, only the categories from each section show up .. very seamless

so it's not 2 sites with one db, but one db, one site, 2 stores ?

Tieske:

Having the multiSite module functional and running live...

Again, Big thanks to Gerome!!

Still there is one little issue left for now:

How to change the Invoice-logo and -store-address for each site?

The front end is easy to manage using the override but the back-end doesn't recognize from which site/store the Invoise is. Since there is the ORDERS_STORE it would be changeble........... but is there an easy sollution or am I missing something obvious??

I don't want to confuse my customers by sending an Invoice from a different store.

Thanks in advance.
We didn't use the Zencart invoice system as we made our own.
However, it should be something too hard to do since you can know where the orders are from from the orders table.
I don't know if other people had to deal with it in the past too...
Good luck for that

NullMind:

Can somebody tell me if Multistore will do this ?

check this site

http://rc-mushroom.com/index.php

see how you can jump from "car" to "helicopter" .. it's the same store .. but when you jump, only the categories from each section show up .. very seamless

so it's not 2 sites with one db, but one db, one site, 2 stores ?

Yes, you can do that with multisite.

Gerome:

We didn't use the Zencart invoice system as we made our own.
However, it should be something too hard to do since you can know where the orders are from from the orders table.
I don't know if other people had to deal with it in the past too...
Good luck for that

For now I made an invoice.php for each site/domain and an extra Invoice button at the back-end. Simple and OK until I have more then a few sites at one database.

Final stap will be the cross-site-cart which is mentioned earlier this thread.

Again great thanks for the Module (and offcourse good luck with the new job).

jvoce:

Okay, so far I have this code written into the script, but it's obviously not completely working as I'm assuming that I either have it typed wrong, or the program doesn't understand what I'm asking it to do. Please give me some pointers.

<a href=http://store1.salvationarmy.ca . '$session'>Online Store</a>

> 
> I need the ability to place the site_link with zenid not only into the main section of a page, but I'll also need it to be placed in the code for the dropdown menu mod.
> 
> With the MultiSite Module I've set it up with different customer types, with two different levels of customers, some with access to more products. What I'm trying to do now is force everyone to login via the more secure login screen, and then be re-directed after that to the appropriate page. In essence I'm creating the illusion of two different levels of customers on one site. Something Zen is not yet able to do, but this is getting, REALLY, REALLY close, and I'd hate to see this pass by. It's quite important to our organization that only people with the right authority can buy certain products.

OK; putting the session id into the url like:

<a href="http://www.site.com/index.php?<?php echo zen_session_name() . '=' . zen_session_id(); ?>">TITLE</a>

is one thing. But how do I keep the session id sticky when I browse through the other site? Since I want to avoid the sidebox.

JVOCE: What did solve your problem?

Thanks in advance.