Auction Lister Pro (ALP) Support

Would this be the error you would expect from this bug?
I saw down some where that the Gzip has to be enqabled for the paypal or Ebay to accept the transaction? I've both enabled ans disabled Gzip through the ZC panel. Everything seems to work faster through the checkout w/o the Gzip enabled, guess because of the other compressing agent runnig, cant remember what its called at the moment...
Thought I'd read through most of the readme's, FAQ's etc..., here and at your site... red eyed that is, been spending some quality time on setting up zen and various modules as of late..

BTW, please accept my THANKS to all that work on ALL the projects in this community.

........Jc

ALP doesn't utilize anything "inside" Zen Cart for functionality other than your data from your database. Zen Cart's functions don't change anything about ALP and vice versa.

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I am looking into this. Looks like I am hitting the Register Globals problem that the other user was experiencing. I will try to get an update out soon.

David,

A few back i asked if it would be better to hold off in the install until you worked the kinks with the checkout. Have you had a chance to do that? Would you say that know the current release is a good one to start with? Thanks - PGT

Originally the problem was "List your Zen inventory on eBay" so I fulfilled that part of the problem.

If you would like the ability to quickly list a few products on eBay from your website and don't mind hand tracking the sales then this release will serve that purpose.

If you are specifically using ALP for email checkout then yes I would wait for that to come out. It is a separate part of the program and involves modifying some of your core cart files. I expect to work with the Zen team before I release anything.

When we have done that and they have blessed it I will release the code.

<Create Ebay Auction Now> button..

Error - curl_error 61 Unrecognized content encoding type. libcurl understands identity' and deflate' content encodings.

Any ideas?

Jc

<Create Ebay Auction Now> button..

Error - curl_error 61 Unrecognized content encoding type. libcurl understands identity' and deflate' content encodings.

More than likely you are missing zlib on your server which will cause errors on the API communication.

Edit the file /alp/includes/config/ebay.config.php

Find the line that looks like this

[ebay-transaction-config]
use-http-compression=1

and make it look like this

[ebay-transaction-config]
use-http-compression=0

Zlib is helpful to increase communication speed because it can compress the files to and from eBay.

maxrisc:

More than likely you are missing zlib on your server which will cause errors on the API communication.

Edit the file /alp/includes/config/ebay.config.php

Find the line that looks like this

[ebay-transaction-config]
use-http-compression=1

> 
> and make it look like this
> 
> ```
[ebay-transaction-config]
use-http-compression=0

Zlib is helpful to increase communication speed because it can compress the files to and from eBay.

David,
This is what I found for ZLib on my server.
zlib
ZLib Support enabled
Compiled Version 1.2.1
Linked Version 1.2.1

Directive Local Value Master Value
zlib.output_compression Off Off
zlib.output_compression_level -1 -1
zlib.output_handler no value no value

Thanks for the reply I will try to disable and retest before I make other changes to the server..

The default ALP installation is to use compression with zlib but it looks as if your configuration is actually deactivated even though you have zlib enabled.

I know there is a bug that exists with zlib on PHP 4.3-4.3.3. Turning off compression in the ebay.config.php file should resolve this issue for you as it will not attempt to compress the data streams.

If you have a relatively low latency circuit you won't notice the difference very much. If you have a shared account with 1Mbps or less then you will notice a difference.

David, have you had a chance to play around with my ALP and see what errors I was talking about?

No I haven't.

I am working on 0.5.3.1. I have turned Globals off on my server and I am testing the installation now. I look forward to having an update uploaded in the next couple of hours.

I am finding all kinds of neat bugs with Globals being off in 0.5.3. I don't have an ETA for the list of problems I am finding.

:oops:
Any updates?

Soon. I am basically rewriting everything I've got to go with Globals off.

:clap:Excellent!
I've got my hosting provider working on helping me do the install... so an updated version shouldn't be that much of a stretch for us. Yippee!
I'm really looking forward to putting this in action. Thanks so much for all your efforts!

:cheers:

I have 0.5.3.1 sitting here and it looks ok for the most part. It will need some general testing.

I am doing an install and test and then I will send a new package in for update on the downloads if I don't find any major problems.

English language is hard coded into this release. That is something I will need to fix in future releases.

I just posted 0.5.3.1. Hopefully our local neighborhood moderators work weekends and can get this up for you.

ok -- after some headbanging, I've got it installed --
but when I go to administration, I get the following:

**1146 - Table 'moebiuse_alp.configuration' doesn't exist

select configuration_key as cfgKey, configuration_value as cfgValue from configuration

[TEP STOP]

arrrgh!

:frusty:
**

You did install this using your cart's database right?