Dynamic Price Updater

Hey Chrome ~

I ran in to a problem on a product, and figured you might have seen this before.
If you go to:
http://www.wholesale4realtors.com/cart/index.php?main_page=product_info&cPath=100_103&products_id=231
...and change the quantity to 5,000

The price updater is merging the price and quantity for some reason, resulting in Your price: $249.95lbs. The attribute should result in $1999 and 100lbs.

Any thoughts? Could it be due to the weight being 3 #'s?

Hi

I notice there that you're using V1 of the Updater... V2 shouldn't be subject to this type of error (the Updater on your site is getting confused when reading the option values)

Upgrading isn't difficult... Just rename the original updater to have an underscore (or any other filesystem-friendly symbol) in front of its name then upload the new package

There are a few more settings in V2 but if anything goes wrong just let me know here :smile:

Incidentally, if anyone out there reckons they could help me out by prepping a readme file it'd be much appreciated :smile:

Cheers

Dan

if we could get a automated price with the specials showing as well without doing ajeh's trick. that would be nice. just a suggestion. also if the price of product a cost more then product b, getting rid of the higher price (product a) in the shopping cart so customers dont get confused.

Hi nyzcaddict

The specials display is something I'm working on and, while I have ideas, it's still in theory form :smile:

Could you elaborate on the second suggestion? I'm not sure I understand you fully

Cheers

Dan

Hey Chrome,
I uninstalled the old version of DPU and installed the new Version 2 and I cannot get it to work. Any suggestions?

perkiekat:

Hey Chrome,
I uninstalled the old version of DPU and installed the new Version 2 and I cannot get it to work. Any suggestions?

I finally figured out why it was not working...for some reason the attribute I had selected would not allow the price to change...I created a new name for the attribute and now it works...don't have a clue why this happened but I am sure it has nothing to do with the updated DPU. It's more like human error on my part! :blush:

Hi.
What a great mod this is!. I do have one question however. I am sure it has come up before, but I cannot seem to locate it.

I would like to use the price updater on selected product pages only. Not globally. Is there any way to do this.

Thanks for your help.

Hi Chrome,

Thanks for the info I used v2 and it works. However, not for some time until I realized that I was running slimbox which when enabled caused a conflict.
It is now disabled slimbox and the dpu is working but I need a lightbox for the site. I have read through about 20 pages on the thread/ ball of wool and saw mention that there was a conflict with slimbox for v2 but I didn’t find a solution. Is there one?? Or can you recommend a lightbox addon that works with dpu?
Apoligies if I had missed the resolutions.

Thanks
Chingy

Hey Dan,

so for example if you have lotion

50ML cost 10 dollars
100ML cost 20 dollars.

if you add the 100ML to the cart and view your shopping cart, it will display $20 with $10 crossed out. kind of like the opposite of a product with a specials price (crossed out higher price and display lower price).

also if you could get the image swap on attribute to work with your mod, that would be neat.

:cheers:

Hi all

Sorry for not replying sooner... The RC licence on my W7 install ran out and I discovered that prevarication hasn't helped... For some odd reason I haven't recieved any thread updates... Right, down to business:

zandra: Thanks! :smile: This is a tricky one... It essentially means keeping a blacklist or whitelist of pages... I haven't yet decided on the best implentation but, unfortunately, there are higher priorities... If, however, this is something you really need please PM me

The Slimbox and image swap modules are failing because of the Updater (rather than the other way 'round) I believe... Please bear with me while I try to find what it is I've naulsed up :smile:

nycaddict: Sorry, the Updater doesn't affect the cart... It creates its own... For it to work as you'd like it'd have to be included in a page it currently isn't... I don't know if there is a more suitable module for expansion (I know there are things like Ajax cart mods) but I would suggest checking it out... Of course if you prefer you could PM me and we can discuss a custom solution :smile:

The next update will also incorporate logic to minimise page load times

Hopefully I'll have an update soon

Dan

PS Happy Saint David's Day (I just remembered)... D'win twp

don't know if this has been addressed before, but my attributes appear for a split second and and then disappear completely from the page. error logging reports:

[01-Mar-2010 16:36:49] PHP Warning: reset() [<a href='function.reset'>function.reset</a>]: Passed variable is not an array or object in includes/classes/dynamic_price_updater.php on line 194
[01-Mar-2010 16:36:49] PHP Warning: Variable passed to each() is not an array or object in includes/classes/dynamic_price_updater.php on line 195
[01-Mar-2010 16:36:49] PHP Warning: reset() [<a href='function.reset'>function.reset</a>]: Passed variable is not an array or object in includes/classes/dynamic_price_updater.php on line 194
[01-Mar-2010 16:36:49] PHP Warning: Variable passed to each() is not an array or object in includes/classes/dynamic_price_updater.php on line 195

???

HI Chrome! I tried to install this mod and it gave me an error and the icon would just keep loading when trying to update the price...

I do have the Ajax checkout module installed that was done by Numinix...could that be the cause of it not working?

The site is http://outdoorcookingdepot.com

I have uninstalled this mod for now - I am no ajax guru so have no idea where to look...

Thanks so much!

Chrome:

Hi

I notice there that you're using V1 of the Updater... V2 shouldn't be subject to this type of error (the Updater on your site is getting confused when reading the option values)

Upgrading isn't difficult... Just rename the original updater to have an underscore (or any other filesystem-friendly symbol) in front of its name then upload the new package

There are a few more settings in V2 but if anything goes wrong just let me know here :smile:

Incidentally, if anyone out there reckons they could help me out by prepping a readme file it'd be much appreciated :smile:

Cheers

Dan

Hey Dan ~ I haven't had a chance to check back until now, and the update worked perfectly, so thanks for the quick reply.

I had asked months back about the weight portion being added, and I'm happy you got that in place. I'll see what I can do now to integrating the shipping module to offer a dynamic shipping estimate. The idea is if the buyer is signed in, it'll use their shipping zip code, and if not it'll use a zip code of designated by the developer, but includes a disclaimer that the shipping is an estimate and not yet based on the user's zip code.

My schedule is a bit hectic, so I'm not sure when I might get to this, but it's on my list.

I may as well add, I'm not a developer by any means, so if someone else might be more experienced and can integrate the shipping portion faster then me, by all means, take the lead. :blush:

Hi all

In order of posting:

gsdcypher: Can you send me a link to your site? That line in the class file basically looks through the cart product (as created by the Updater) reading the attributes... Interesting error... I'll hopefully be able to see something from the link

jill: After having a look at your site I notice you have a SEFU mod installed... This is a causing a 404 error to be sent back to the script which means the Updater thinks the class file couldn't be found even though usually there is a valid XML response... 2 options here and the first one is to see if your SEFU mod will allow certain URLs to be excluded... If it does tell it to exclude /dpu_ajax.php

The second option is a little more involved and requires you to edit the Javascript file... To do this open includes/modules/pages/product_info/jscript_ajax_updater.php and make sure you have wordwrap turned off... Next you will have to comment out lines 99, 103, 104 and 105... For example you would alter line 99 to look like this:

// if (_this.XHR.status == 200) {

The // is the symbol for a comment... Simply add it in front of the aforementioned lines... If that doesn't work please let me know :smile:

I'm glad V2 works for you ByOriginalDesign... Unfortunately, my schedule is really hectic too currently so I'm afraid I can't give attention to specific tasks... My next mission is to find out why the Ajax object isn't playing nicely with other mods

If I can get this figured out and have some time I'll have a look at what you need if you still require it

Cheers!

Dan

Hello Chrome,

I like your DPU v2 very much. There's only one topic I can't manage.
My standard currency is in EURO with 19% value-added tax.
I need the tax in the shop.
The problem is the value-added tax, so the gross price.

When i take a net price there is no difference between the
DPU-shown price and the price in the cart.

But the time i take a gross price, the Price difference
between the DPU-shown price and the Cart-Price
is always 2 Percent.

In detail the DPU-shown price is always 2 percent higher...

Have you got any idea which can be the reason.

I would be grateful if you had an idea.

Flo

p.s.:
tested both with zc 1.37 and 1.38

Hi

I think this issue may have come up once before while I was unwell and had no chance to really act upon it... I honestly have no idea why this should happen

Would you care to PM a link to a failing page to me? I may be able to glean some information

Cheers!

Dan

Hi Chrome, Great Mod but unfortunately we can't use it due to a bug in V2.

I believe this issue was mentioned earlier in this thread but I couldn't find a solution... when our products load they load with the discount assigned to them and the lower price included. As soon as we go to attributes it removes the discount and bases all prcies from the full price only. As most of our products are discounted it's proving to be unusable.

Is there any fix for this atall?

Thanks, Dave

Hi all

Sorry for taking so long to respond but my workload at the minute is very high

Unfortunately I haven't had any chance to work on the Updater at all recently... I acknowledge that there are a couple of issues that need resolving but I have to ask for your patience while I try to find some time to address them... For these issues there is no quick fix I'm afraid (I don't entirely understand them yet myself)

Thank you all for your patience and I'll try to get to the problems as soon as I can

Dan