Back In Stock Notifications

Hello Everybody,

I am having problems installing Back In Stock Notifications. to be more specific adding the SQL patch. I did that by inserting the mysql file, I did that by inserting the plain text and I tried with my phpMyAdmin as well. Nothing worked.

I am using Zen Cart 1.3.8a, MySQL5.0.

If I do the patching with zen cart I am getting these messages:

11 statements processed.
Error ERROR: Cannot insert configuration_key "BACK_IN_STOCK_NOTIFICATION_ENABLED" because it already exists
Error ERROR: Cannot insert configuration_key "" because it already exists
Error ERROR: Cannot create table back_in_stock_notification_subscriptions because it already exists
Warning Note: 3 statements ignored. See "upgrade_exceptions" table for additional details.

At admin area in configuration menu I can see "Back in stock Notifications" option and it works, but there is no Catalog > Back In Stock Notifications Menu.

The module seems to be working partly. I can send Notification via e-mail but when I put my item back in stock there is no notification for back in stock..

please..... if anyone knows... please HELP...

Thank you in advance...

karapus:

Hello Everybody,

I am having problems installing Back In Stock Notifications. to be more specific adding the SQL patch. I did that by inserting the mysql file, I did that by inserting the plain text and I tried with my phpMyAdmin as well. Nothing worked.

I am using Zen Cart 1.3.8a, MySQL5.0.

If I do the patching with zen cart I am getting these messages:

11 statements processed.
Error ERROR: Cannot insert configuration_key "BACK_IN_STOCK_NOTIFICATION_ENABLED" because it already exists
Error ERROR: Cannot insert configuration_key "" because it already exists
Error ERROR: Cannot create table back_in_stock_notification_subscriptions because it already exists
Warning Note: 3 statements ignored. See "upgrade_exceptions" table for additional details.

At admin area in configuration menu I can see "Back in stock Notifications" option and it works, but there is no Catalog > Back In Stock Notifications Menu.

The module seems to be working partly. I can send Notification via e-mail but when I put my item back in stock there is no notification for back in stock..

please..... if anyone knows... please HELP...

Thank you in advance...

ok, do not reply to my post yet...

there was missing menu because I did not change admin folder's name... stupid me...

Hi,

karapus:

ok, do not reply to my post yet...

there was missing menu because I did not change admin folder's name... stupid me...

Glad you got it sorted and an easy mistake to make. I may try to stress the fact that the admin folder's name is often changed in the next release as everyone's changing its name these days for Zen Cart's suggested security by obscurity! :)

All the best...

Conor
ceon

countrycharm:

After looking at the Cherry Zen tpl_product_info_display file I notice it is not the same as the standard zen tpl_product_info_display file. It has bee modified for the Cherry Zen Template by jettrue the maker of the Cherry Zen Template. I compared the 2 file in WinMerge and the only 2 pieces of code I added from the Back In Stock Notifications tpl_product_info_display file to the the one in cherry zen was this here if anybody else has run into this problem.
In the cherry zen tpl_product_info_display file add this code to line 100.

and on line 234 add this code

Your Back In Stock Notifications will work and look like it should.
I thought I would share this with all cherry zen template users who would like to use this Module.
Thanks Coner for this very nice Module.

Thanks so much for this. I have the same problem with Cherry Zen and the description appearing above the notification part.

amyleew:

Thanks so much for this. I have the same problem with Cherry Zen and the description appearing above the notification part.
Your are very welcome. Glad it worked out for you.

Hello guys,

I am wondering is it possible to include a "contact number" field when the customers fill up for restock? The contact number may not be a cumpolsory field, customer can either fill it up or dont

and then the admin part will also show the contact number of the customer :)

Thanks a lot ya!

Hi,

juneloweelyn:

I am wondering is it possible to include a "contact number" field when the customers fill up for restock? The contact number may not be a cumpolsory field, customer can either fill it up or dont

and then the admin part will also show the contact number of the customer :)

That should be easy enough to add on to the software. It would be custom coding though, so you'll have to pay someone to add the functionality.

They'll need t add the phone number field to the form, the form handling code, the database recording code, then the admin display code.

All the best..

Conor
ceon

conor:

Hi,

That should be easy enough to add on to the software. It would be custom coding though, so you'll have to pay someone to add the functionality.

They'll need t add the phone number field to the form, the form handling code, the database recording code, then the admin display code.

All the best..

Conor
ceon

Hey conor,

I wonder whether u help to do the programming for this? or how much u will charge?

Thanks for ur info :)

juneloweelyn:

Hey conor,

I wonder whether u help to do the programming for this? or how much u will charge?

Thanks for ur info :)
Conor can not respond to you here on the forum in regard to this. You can contact Conor here for any further information.

Time once again to thank Conor for this amazing contribution! Folks who look in and are curious to know if it's worth adding: this is the best marketing tool we have and it's free! We have many marketing tools but this one always tops the list. We just had a record sales day yesterday thanks entirely to Conor.
Check your inbox, mate! :cheers: Have a few on Brushwood's tab. Thanks as always for your good work.

Hi,

brushwoodnursery:

Time once again to thank Conor for this amazing contribution! Folks who look in and are curious to know if it's worth adding: this is the best marketing tool we have and it's free! We have many marketing tools but this one always tops the list. We just had a record sales day yesterday thanks entirely to Conor.
Check your inbox, mate! :cheers: Have a few on Brushwood's tab. Thanks as always for your good work.

Really glad you had your best ever sales day, well done!

Thanks very much for your encouraging comments.

And thanks even more for the donation.. it's so nice to receive and so greatly appreciated!

We've a slight update to the software which will be released early in January.

In the meantime have a great Christmas break and roll on another record sales day! :)

All the best..

Conor
ceon

Hello,
I was having problem with special chars in title and the display in the bisn form at the bottom of the page. As my shop is in utf8 it shows the ?

Now i recently noticed that replacing htmlentities in tpl_product_info_display.php solves the problem like so:

$intro_text = sprintf(BACK_IN_STOCK_NOTIFICATION_TEXT_FORM_INTRO,
    //htmlentities($products_name));
    strip_tags($products_name));

Is it known that htmlentities doesn't cope well with utf8?
Are there drawbacks i should consider changing the code like this?

thanks,
jeroen

Hi Jeroen,

nagelkruid:

Is it known that htmlentities doesn't cope well with utf8?

htmlentities without any parameters doesn't support UTF8. You need to upgrade toa more recent version of Ceon Back In Stock Notifications, support for UTF8 was added in April 2009!

(2.6.0 is most recent release, a slightly newer version will be out later this month).

For your reference:

htmlentities($products_name, ENT_COMPAT, CHARSET)

..is how UTF8 is supported in the htmlentities function.

All the best..

Conor
ceon

(2.6.0 is most recent release, a slightly newer version will be out later this month).

I have stock by attributes will the new version have support to be able to work to show the actual attributes that come back in stock too?

conor:

Hi Jeroen,
(2.6.0 is most recent release, a slightly newer version will be out later this month).

For your reference:

htmlentities($products_name, ENT_COMPAT, CHARSET)

Ahh, thats too bad, i just downloaded and used version 2.2.4 which was the latest available in the zen-cart downloads section. Didn't realise there would be a newer version elsewhere, i'll go and find that one.

Thanks for explaining the htmlentities, i still have some minor issues with utf8, it is good to know i can use the function in this way to support the char set.

Hi,

supersnow:

I have stock by attributes will the new version have support to be able to work to show the actual attributes that come back in stock too?

No. Stock by attributes will NEVER be supported.

All the best..

Conor
ceon

Hi,

nagelkruid:

Ahh, thats too bad, i just downloaded and used version 2.2.4 which was the latest available in the zen-cart downloads section.

Oh dear, I didn't realise the downloads area was so out of date! That downloads area is such a pain (for developers, obviously it's handy for users)!

I'll upload the new version to it of course.

nagelkruid:

Thanks for explaining the htmlentities, i still have some minor issues with utf8, it is good to know i can use the function in this way to support the char set.

Yes, it's good to know how these things work for future use.

All the best..

Conor
ceon

cancel post , found new version, thanks!

I installed the mod but whenever I try to access the Catalog=>Back In Stock it takes me to the log in page with out actually ednding my session, just taking me to the page. I haven't yet installed the css and js files in the docs foldere because I don't know where they go. Where do they go?

novastar:

I installed the mod but whenever I try to access the Catalog=>Back In Stock it takes me to the log in page with out actually ednding my session, just taking me to the page. I haven't yet installed the css and js files in the docs foldere because I don't know where they go. Where do they go?

To be more specific, I can get to the page but whenever I try to run one of the options from the dropdown list, what I described in the above post happens.