Checkout 0.3.3 now in repository

Yes, big bug with Sum of prices above 1000....€ or $ or £...

Even as I write, I am re-structuring the email notifications code so you will be able to do exactly that. Not from the admin interface (that's complex enough) but instead by editing the template text, just like you do to customise the gallery pages.

In brief, there will be a master template for each one of {Order-placed, payment-confirmed, order-dispatched} events. Plugins will choose when to trigger these emails (or it can be done manually from the order admin page, if you get a cheque in the post, for instance). The text for each master template is editable, as is whether to include customer details, order details and/or download links. Each plugin will also be able to insert its own customized text/data into the email sent for each event. So you would include your bank details and payment instruction in the "confirm.tpl" included in checkoutemail module, which is inserted automatically into the confirm.tpl master template. I will also include a callback for the order total so your email will be able to read, for instance "Please pay £45.62 to my bank account whose details are xxxxxxxx...." - whenever the checkoutemail module triggers an order.

Once again, the challenge is to have a system that is easy to set up, as well as flexible. Your comments about how well it works will of course be welcomed when you've had a chance to try it...

What about it? This is all beta code and if you're running it on a production site it's at your own risk. You should therefore have no problem being patient until I have a chance to post a fix.

edit:

OK, here's your bug-fix: edit file confirm.inc, and change line 183 from:

	    $total = number_format($total, 2, '.', ',');

to

	    $total = number_format($total, 2, '.', '');

Big bug, little fix.

Do you mean to paginate the cart display so you don't get one long page? that's an interesting idea but actually quite awkward to implement. We could have an option to make the thumbnails smaller, which would help a bit.

Out of interest, how many different items would you expect to have in a cart on average? For my purposes, it's rarely more than 10. For you, 20? 50? 100? 500?

explain to me how you set this up so I can replicate and do some tests, please.

I'm guessing that this is an issue with all versions of Checkout including 0.1.18 that's on the SVN server, and not something specific to release 0.2.1 - so I'm going to put it to one side as a feature request rather than a bug. (In short, I don't know how to solve the problem and I don't think I'll have much chance to check over the next few days - sorry.)

Mostly I need feedback from people who are having problems specific to 0.2.1.

An alpha version 0.3.0 with much improved automatic customer contact emails should be along very soon.

The order management facilities have changed in 0.3.0 - you actually get to update the order status and send emails to customers.

If you're all very very nice to me I will tidy up and release my private module that prepares and downloads a neat and tidy pdf invoice/delivery note complete with thumbnails of all the pictures. Photobox eat your heart out.

Awesome. Yo the man, Alec. Would love to get the VIP pass for version 0.3.0.

Cheers,

-- John

@freight per item: yes, reasonably straightforward. The hardest part - as with all these neat features - is to avoid making life even harder for the majority who don't need them. (Every time I can *remove* a configuration option from the admin page I give a little cheer.)

I suppose you would give each item an assigned weight, then add up the weight of the order and look up the total weight to find the shipping cost, per region/delivery service. That means: an extra field for the weight of each product (is it settable per album/image as well? that means more boxes to fill in...) and a table expandable in both dimensions with columns for different delivery services and rows for different weight bands.

I'll be honest and say there are other neat features I want to implement first - ones that I use myself, which is the main reason for spending the last three weeks on this module(*) - to get it to the stage that I can do that. Then, maybe I'll have some time to go take some more pictures!

(*)that, and the adulation and hot chicks, of course.

Alecmyers,

Understood your situation, but if you could help me to give some ideas of not viewing the breadcrumb when the cart module accessed (if no way to fix the problem), that would be great. No worries if you need some time to look into this problem. May be you can include this in your next 0.3.0 release. Would you mind?

I like the features in checkout module and absolutely will stick to it. When the new version 0.3.0 will be released?

Seems to have worked Thanks very much. Will continue to try and break it in other ways now....

mfaizalar:

@discounts - I am going to implement some kind of discount codes. Quite how it will work I haven't decided yet, as everyone will want different options (some % discount, some fixed discount, some dependent on minimum quantity etc etc.) The absolutely *best* way is for you to learn to program in php then you can (all!) modify the code to do your exact requirements, whereas anything that I write is going to be a compromise.

@direct link: the paypal plugin already does almost exactly this. If you have an API for an online payment provider then it's straightforward (if you know some php) and you are most welcome to join in and write a plugin to use that method of payment. The downside is that most payment providers automated response systems (that would tell Gallery when payment has been received) require a secure connection using https://, and that requires as I understand it a fixed IP address on your server and an encryption certificate. Paypal is the odd one out in that respect - Google Checkout certainly needs it.

As far as I know, the download feature works in 0.2.1 just as well as it did in 0.1.18 - it's not something I've altered. I have tested it again in 0.3.0 as it stands at the moment, and it functions as it should, to the extent I've tested it.

Infinite loops of emails are also not something I would expect or have experienced. I'm now running 0.2.1 on a production server, have taken many orders through it via paypal, and have experienced no particular issues with the email section.

If you can be more specific about the problems with the downloads beyond "it's not working" then that would be more helpful ...?

"Donation email for paypal" - explain?

The short answer is - probably.

The longer answer is this: I was reading the specs for Google Checkout the other day, and it looked straightforward. I was disappointed to read that the callback notification (order-paid) from Google requires an https:// address to post to on your server, which many people will not have. Then yesterday I realised that my hosting provider (hostmonster/bluehost) as a courtesy provides an https url for their servers, so that http://www.my_hostmonster_site.com can also be accessed as https://www.hostmonster.com/~my_hostm - and that will be adequate for the postback. (it's ugly, but the customer never sees it.)

That means for the lucky few who have this a full google checkout module is feasible. And, I hope, with the new module architecture, simple to integrate properly. It's something I mean to look into over the next week or so.

If you don't want automated payback notifications then it's even easier, and will work for everyone. I can imagine that it's possible with a module of no more than about 6 files total. I haven't yet looked at the existing module, so I don't know whether it would be easier to modify that or start from scratch (using it perhaps as a guide).

I suppose it will have to be called checkoutgoogle - as checkoutcheckout and checkoutgooglecheckout both sound really silly.

@British: it's coded in international English, templates are written in US English as per the Gallery standard, and I've provided a en_GB.po file. I've had welcome offers for translation to German, Spanish and Italian, I think, so far, and when the text settles down I mean to take them up - so we should all be happy!

Hi Alec,
Just found something you might want to know about. I have 0.2.1 installed on test server. When I configured the theme via the Themes link in Site Admin the Pricing info appeared on the album page when I had it configured not to and did not appear on the photo page when I had configured it to. However, when I configure the theme via Edit Album everything works as I expected.

Matrix

Alec, I just installed 0.3.0 on both a clean install of gallery 2.2.4 and an older upgraded 2.2.4 gallery install.

I am able to complete the payment process with PayPal, but when I click the button to "return" from Paypal back to my site, it doesn't connect back to my site properly i.e. times out.

In addition, after I pay, I get confirmation emails from paypal, but no orders are listed in the Checkout Orders plugin and no emails are sent from my site.

I thought that it might have to do with my "upgraded" gallery install so I installed gallery again just to see if that was the problem. It does the same thing for both installs.

Alec
That would be great if you could implement a proper GoogleCheckout module.

I managed to fudge together enough code to make the old Google module work after a fashion but it is far from complete. You are more than welcome to have it if it points you in the right direction but it is only a simple HTML API version.

Not being a PHP programmer it is all a little frustrating but good fun.

I'm also finding that PGTheme is not showing Add to Basket buttons however I configure it - there are a lot of variations and maybe I haven't stumbled on the correct combination yet.

Have fun
Thanks

I am new to G2 and Checkout. First of all, thanks for all your hard work developing this module.

I just installed Gallery 2.2.4 and Checkout 0.3.0. I am using the Carbon theme which has an Add To Cart icon that works with Cart and shows up on the image page above and below the photo. After activating Checkout and deactivating Cart, this icon no longer shows up, and the Add To Cart link only shows up in the Item Actions list. Is there a way to use Carbon's Cart icon with Checkout?

Thanks

Hi Tcphoto,

Glad you like Gallery!

Please note (I tried to make it clear at the head of this thread that checkout 0.3.0 is suitable for testing specifically by those people who are already familiar with *both* Gallery and the Checkout 0.1.18 that is the default installation. This is not a general support thread for Checkout as I'm really soliciting bug reports that are specific to Checkout 0.3.0. My recommendation is to install checkout 0.1.18 as it's stable and (mostly!) bug free. If you have problems with that module then check the documentation, search the forums (almost all questions have been asked and answered many times over) and if that still doesn't get things going for you then by all means post a question in the support area of the Forum.

Incidentally, the 'icons' question has already been asked (and answered) in this thread, even.

Many thanks!

The Order Management screen does report the correct status ...

Order Status

Payment for this order has cleared, and it is being processed.

-- John

Yes, looks like if I clear it a second time, the 2nd e-mail has the correct status.

Thanks,

-- John

That sounds excellent. Thanks for your hard work and keep it up!

Just noticed also that there isn't a box to switch off downloads all together, like there used to be.

It always brings up this message:

Download Information
This order does not include any downloadable items.

Since I don't have any options for downloadable items.