Dynamic Price Updater

Thanks Dan,

Top work, I was looking in the right file (as it could have only been that one!) but to no avail.

Appreciate it...

Steve

Hi,

First of all, thanks so much for this contribution.

1. My "Your Price: $XX.XX (X)" message shows twice, how can I fix that?
2. Would there be a way to show the quantiy update (X) only if the customer enters two or more on the add to cart qty box?

Thanks

I am very interested in using this contribution. However, I noticed your site is down. Is there an alternative location to download this file? Or do you mind PMing it to me. Thanks for the great work!

Hi

Crikey, I'd forgotten my site was down... I'll try my best to get it back up and running tonight (it's been moved to a new server)

Dan

christianpatrick:

I am very interested in using this contribution. However, I noticed your site is down. Is there an alternative location to download this file? Or do you mind PMing it to me. Thanks for the great work!

Chrome:

Hi

Crikey, I'd forgotten my site was down... I'll try my best to get it back up and running tonight (it's been moved to a new server)

Dan

Addons supported on the Zen Cart site are supposed to be uploaded to the Free Addons area so these kinds of problems don't happen.

Hi

Site is back online... The mixture of DB engines can make it tricky to migrate :smile:

DrByte: I do recall offering the Updater for the official downloads section but being told that the bugs should be worked out first... Perfectly reasonable... Except that V1 was [unfortunately] riddled with bugs and a few remain in V2 (extended apologies) so I never reapplied to the section

In fairness my site has been down only twice since the Updater was released (around 3 and a half years ago) and I'm sure my excellent admin has the server in close quarters now :smile:

Aplogies for the inconvenience

Cheers

Dan

Hi Dan.
Exceptional work you are doing!. Thanks for your pitbull attitude to getting this just right. This is all new stuff for me, so please excuse my "techie" ignorance!. I installed the DPU 2.0a version yesterday. Works just fine!.

Except for a small problem, on those items I have as "Specials". The "original price, special price, and you save percent off" is replaced with the "Your Price" (DPU price) on the page.

I don't mind the DPU "Your Price" showing in the bottom instance, but I would like to keep the first instance of it at the top as "Original price, special price, with the Percent saved" intact, under the title. Can you tell me what I need to do. Thanks so much! You really are a tremendous asset to zencart.
You can see a test here:

Ajeh:

The display is manage by the class in the template ... so I made the one at the top use a different class so the price did not change and put one at the bottom where the add to cart quantity is put in that had the class that gets changed ...

This way, the original price always shows on the page and the changing price of what the "actual" price will be based on quantity etc. would show right where the customer is working down by the attributes and add to cart quantity box ...

Linda.

Please put yourself in a newbies shoes (we all begin this way!). You have generally explained the way I want my product page displayed, BUT, Your instructions are still confusing to me.

1. "The display is managed by the class in the template."
   Which template are you talking about, where do i locate it?
2. "So I made the one at the top use a different class."
   Specifically what did you change and to what??
3. "and put one at the bottom where the add to cart quanitity is put etc"

I would really appreciate it if you would explain more clearly.
Thank you

Find the Price Block delimited with:

<!--bof Product Price block -->

stuff here

<!--eof Product Price block -->

Copy it and change the class that it uses so that one uses the original class that is used with the Price Updater and another one so that it doesn't use it ...

What you get is two price displays ... one that reacts to the Price Updater and one that does not and shows the regular Price display ...

Once you have the two working correctly you can adjust where the prices display ...

Ajeh:

Find the Price Block delimited with:

Copy it and change the class that it uses so that one uses the original class that is used with the Price Updater and another one so that it doesn't use it ...

What you get is two price displays ... one that reacts to the Price Updater and one that does not and shows the regular Price display ...

Once you have the two working correctly you can adjust where the prices display ...

Thanks Linda. That made sense!:clap:

Glad that this could help you out thanks for letting us know ... :smile:

Hi all

I've been doing a bit of updating and housekeeping with the Updater... Firstly there was a bit of a discrepancy with the way the Updater was interacting with the cart which has now been fixed... As far as I'm aware there haven't been any situations where the bug might surface but it's better safe than sorry :smile:

Secondly, I've added the functionality for the Updater to display the weight of the product dynamically... I'm not sure if this is of any use to anyone but I thought I'd put it in there anyway... If you want to use it simply create a DIV or a SPAN with the ID of 'productWeight' and the Updater will update it for you automatically... I'd suggest something like the following layout:

<div class="myContainer">
   Product weight:
   <span id="productWeight"></span>
</div>

This code should go in includes/templates/YOUR_TEMPLATE/templates/tpl_product_info_display.php

I've also added a rudimentary sidebox feature but it's a bit more involved to get working... It's designed to work the same way as the one that was included with DPUv1 but I haven't quite got the prices for the individual attributes sorted out yet... Anyone that wants to give it a try (it isn't very difficult) should have a quick look at the readme included (under Update!)

I know this hasn't addressed any core issues that people have been experiencing but to be honest I've kind've lost track of all the issues... Could anyone still having a problem please repost it?

If there are any problems with the new additions please let me know

Cheers!

Dan

Hi all

After some messing about I've managed to get the attribute prices working in the sidebox and there's sort of a very basic templating system for the sidebox content

Go here for a demo http://chrome.me.uk/shopdev/

Anyway, if you're interested please give it a go and let me know how you get on :smile:

Cheers!

Dan

Sounds like you might have made some changes that might make the DPU work on our site now. Im going to re-download the new package and try updating my installation. Maybe it will work this time!

Fingers crossed and good luck :smile:

re-uploaded the files but it still appears to not work.

What was the URL again?

we are paying Jeff from Numinix to help us but the site is http://www. ribbonsbaskets. com

Hi

Bit of an odd one that... The Updater is definitely returning the values as I'd expect to see but the display isn't updating... Ive checked the element IDs and they seem to tally also... Really I'd have to be able to test on your site to be able to track this one down

As you already have someone helping you I'll bid you good luck :smile:

Give me a shout if I can help

Dan

If you could help with the problem it would be greatly appreciated. There are JS errors when the attributes are changed on the page if that helps.