SearchFit Shopping Cart v6.4 (Jul 10, 2006)

[stanley@searchfit]

SearchFit Shopping Cart v6.4 (Jul 10, 2006)
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changes and new features
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1. NEW: NOVA viaklix.com real-time creditcard processor is now supported

2. NEW: PayPal PRO real-time creditcard processor is now supported (requires PHP 4.3+ and PEAR)

3. NEW: ability to submit all cart amounts to the selected credit card processor as USDollars even if the selected currency is different

4. NEW: extended the "Export Products" examples with templates for the following online comparison shopping:
www.froogle.com
www.pricegrabber.com
www.pricescan.com
www.shopping.com
shopping.yahoo.com
www.shopzilla.com
www.sortprice.com

5. NEW: ability to define "common includes" in the templates repository. Enter the keyword of an include in another template to include it's content.

6. NEW: ability to import navigation bar tabs of the products

7. NEW: the "duplicate product" function handles the assigned navigation bar (if any)

8. NEW: new keywords available for the order emails:
a) ORDER_DATE: the date of the order
b) ORDER_TIME: the time of the order
c) ORDER_SHIPPING_METHOD_NAME: the shipping method of the order

9. NEW: added .name as allowed extension for email addresses. For example user@domain.name

10. NEW: support of tax exempt per member:
a) member is able to enter tax id number
b) store owner is able to search members by "tax id", "company name"
c) store owner is able to "Tax Exempt" a member, the member will be
notified by email when that happens
d) store owner is able to search "tax exempt" orders

11. NEW: show quantity field per checkbox and radio button option for groups of options with prices

12. NEW: the new "Change NEW Order Status Rule" property at Configure/PerUser allows the store owner to select whether the status of the NEW orders will be changed automatically to IN PROGRESS or not when clicked on the "view" link for the orders

13. NEW: offline products feature (enable/disable real-time funds capture):
a) ability to specify which product is offline/online, default is online
b) new payment method called "offline"
c) allow only the "offline" payment method if at least one offline item has been placed in the cart

14. CHANGE: there has been a small change of the CSS items for the navigation bars, so existing customers that intend to use the feature should use the default CSS items below:
.navbar { width:100%; border:1px solid #F0F0F0; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 1px; background: white; }
.navbar td { border: 1px solid white; border-width: 1px 1px 0px 0px; text-align: center; }
.navbar td.navtab_first { border: 1px solid white; border-width: 1px 1px 0px 1px; }
.navbar a.navtab_selected { display: block; padding: 3px 3px 3px 3px; color: black; background: white; text-decoration: none; }
.navbar a.navtab_notselected { display: block; padding: 3px 3px 3px 3px; color: black; background: #F0F0F0; text-decoration: none; }
.navbar a.navtab_notselected:hover { background: #DDDDDD; }
.navbar td.navtab_body { padding: 3px 3px 3px 3px; background: white; text-align: left; }

15. CHANGE: new customers will have automatically created default.htm and missing.html custom pages

16. CHANGE: the product properties "To Order", "Order By Phone Only", and "Orderable By" were moved to the Misc tab and grouped together with the new "Order Offline Only" property

17. FIXED: products of type links were not showing navigation bars that are assigned to the original products

18. FIXED: the referral icons were shown on the Reports/Searches screen even if there were no referrals

19. FIXED: the export of captured searches was exporting only the last 1000 records, the same problem was fixed for the export mailing list feature

20. FIXED: the multiple rows of long subcategories names were shown without an indent on the generated menu

21. FIXED: zend encoding problem with zones was causing some problems
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Stanimir Stanev (Stanley)
SearchFit Architect and Lead Developer
www.searchfit.com
www.stanev.com

[trackhaus2]

Hi Stan,

I haven't had time to study the upgrades carefully - just enough to see if a problem I'm having is a result of the upgrade.

The products on the category (brief) level are being displayed as very wide. Here is an example: http://www.trackhaus.com/brake-bleeder-3-ctg.htm

There are actually two columns of products but they are much wider than the were before the upgrade and part of the left column and all of the right column are off the screen.

Do you know what in the upgrade would have caused this and have a suggestion on how to work around it?

Thanks!

Greg

[stanley@searchfit]

Greg,

I just checked one of your main templates and I am finding this:

...
<td width="1249" height="67" valign="top">
<table width="100%" class="height100" border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0">
...

notice that the width of this TD is 1249 pixels, this is the problem I suspect

hope this helps,
Stan
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Stanimir Stanev (Stanley)
SearchFit Architect and Lead Developer
www.searchfit.com
www.stanev.com

[trackhaus2]

Hi Stan,

Thanks for catching that. I fixed it and the problem persists. It does not appear to be within the templ main.

I went in and changed the brief product templ and that has solved the problem. I now have to get it to display properly however. Are you sure there was no change to the way the product brief/category level products are displayed? My products were displaying properly before the upgrade.

Thanks for the help.

-Greg

[stanley@searchfit]

I am not sure, I suspect we have fixed something and that's why your problems visualize now. Did you fix the template problems? I am visiting your website using IE and all looks good to me here.

One problem when I use FireFox browser to display your page at
http://www.trackhaus.com/brake-bleeder-3-ctg-2-mnf.htm

The "What are customers saying about this item?" section appears as white text on white background when I use FireFox.

thanks,
Stan
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Stanimir Stanev (Stanley)
SearchFit Architect and Lead Developer
www.searchfit.com
www.stanev.com

[trackhaus2]

I'm not sure now. Originally I had the problem on all category pages. I did some work on the templ main to fix the problem you found as well as tweak it a bit. When that didn't work I went to the brief product template and fixed some things there. At that point it worked on every page but the one you mentioned (http://www.trackhaus.com/brake-bleeder-3-ctg-2-mnf.htm).

I then went into that code and found a few things there and now it is working as it was earlier in the day.

Thanks for pointing out the white text on white background issue. I had switched the color in dreamweaver so I could see the text better while I was fixing the page and promptly forgot to change it back.

So, I'm not sure what specifically the problem was. It's possible that you fixed something that I was compensating for and needed to make an adjustment. Or maybe it was my code which is in the process of being cleaned up.

To your credit I did go to my other site as well as another SF customer site and they were both fine.

Anyway, things are stable now and I'm anxious to read the new update list and to implement the include file feature which is awesome.

As always, thanks for your continued support Stan.

-Greg

[stanley@searchfit]

glad you have sorted things out...
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Stanimir Stanev (Stanley)
SearchFit Architect and Lead Developer
www.searchfit.com
www.stanev.com