[checkout] Version 0.3.5 now in repository

0.3.5 is now in the repository and should be available for download within a few hours if all goes well. It includes all the below changes as well as some minor code tidying.

There are some minor database structure changes to support some extra plugins, including one (to be released) that allows variable item/qty price bands (1 for $8, 2 for $5 each, 3+ for $4, that kind of thing.) There are also some template changes to the SelectProducts.tpl file, so if you are using a local/ version of this I suggest you reapply your modifications to the new issue.

As usual I look forward to reports of any difficulties or problems, in this thread.

I have attached up to date po files for German and (someone asked for) Turkish as well as French. Please translate and forward so I can include them asap.

0.3.4_beta2 code available now in this thread!

I'm going to interpret the deafening silence accompanying this code as a 100% success rate then. Anyway, I've added another couple of features in 0.3.4_beta2, including improved Product Price info blocks (product names are now links to add one of those to the cart) - a cart contents block that includes thumbnails of the photos in the cart (which link to the relevant place in the cart) and also replacing the "add one of the first product" setting with a new per-product "default quantity". Every time an item is added to the cart it's product quantities are set as per this column. Its overridable as a per-item/album setting too.

There is also a setting to prevent "add to cart" appearing under thumbnails (i.e. only under the main image). This is somewhat theme-dependent, so please let me know if it doesn't behave appropriately. I can' do anything about it but I could label the setting better if I know where and when it works.

Previous enhancements (to 0.3.4_beta) include:

Albums as items: Albums of photos can now be treated as items in their own rights. There's a new checkout permission:"[checkout] Purchase album" - if a gallery viewer has this then they get the purchase Album link just like the purchase photo link depends on the "[checkout] purchase" permission. Rather than setting the new permission on the root album, you'll probably want to be a bit more selective about which albums you add it to (unless you actually have photos in the root album you want to sell all together.)

In the admin page for checkout you can choose whether to treat albums as collections of photos contained (as before) or (new feature!) as single items that can be added to the cart. You can't mix both treatments of albums, it wouldn't make sense to the user. You also need to specify which products apply to albums, and which to 'other' (data) items such as photos. That's done from the product table on the admin page. Products can apply to both of course.

Checkoutdownload has been modified to download the contents of albums where appropriate. Only the direct child data items of an album are downloaded, it's not recursive. Each item will now only be in a download once no matter how many downloadable products it appears in a single order.

Item quantity limits: In the product table (checkout admin page) you can set a max quantity for any product. Mostly this is to prevent people from ordering more than 1 download-type item. For which, put a limit of 1, obviously. Or you can limit promotional items ("no more than 5 per order...") Limits of zero count as no limit at all, as does nothing set in the box, which is the previous behaviour. The limit is enforced (silently) at the 'continue to checkout' page - you'll just see that quantities on that page may differ to what's in the cart.

Please post any bugs in this thread.

I can only help if you give some details about the error you are getting...

And what are you doing at the time you get the error? Please try to explain a bit more. Is this a new installation of checkout 0.3.4_beta, or an upgrade from 0.3.3? What other checkout modules do you have installed? what versions are they? Which operations do work? which don't?

Hi again

I did a fresh install on a spare domain that i have and seems to work fine

it is perfect for my website ! - how can i get it to work on my existing install - as an upgrade - without wiping the data and starting over ?

would it help if i gave you some URL's to look at ?

Hi Again

I went for it, and did a clean install .... and new database

and its working fine now !

thanks again for module !

How do I donate to Checkout? I've found it to be a good fit for what I need and have used it to make money. I would like to give some back. ([i]It would also make me feel less guilty about a feature request).

Alec,

Thank you for spending your precious time on this project. I, among many here are profiting from the work you've done and I would like to offer you two 8 x 11 (ran out of larger sized paper) prints from my http://www.nocloo.com/gallery2. It's a gallery about children's book illustrators and I have been using the checkout module since last year to help pay for the cost of hosting. I'm sure you will find something to your liking there and I hope many will follow my step and offer you something for your contribution to the community. Just do a regular checkout and I'll issue a Paypal refund to you once your order is in.

Thanks again,
-Minh
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checkoutdownload is the module also required for zip downloads.

Hi Kiama,

events.lensmanfoto.com works fine for me in FF, and I have just tried it in IE but you've taken the paypal option away so I can't tell you whether it works there or not.

Locked next to a module is an issue with your file-system permissions: http://gallery.menalto.com/node/70546. There's no downloadable version of checkout (you can always check it out through a SVN client from sourceforge's Subversion server if you want though.)

No, it doesn't appear to work in IE7 either. The problem looks to do with the way you've got the page running in a frame-set. If you get to the checkout page directly, via the jchub.com url it's fine. It might be a security feature at paypal's end, I can't see any reason in the checkout html that would cause any problems.

Ah...

Try adding this to module.inc at line 672:

	if (GalleryUtilities::isA($item, 'GalleryLinkItem')) {
	    continue;
	}

There is a bit of hole in checkout in that you can't specify which kind of items add to cart applies to. So someone with collections of videos (not for sale) but photos which are for sale is going to have that problem too.

Maybe something to work on in 0.3.6.

Thanks. I'll check out your website and the donation to Gallery is done.

So here is what I'm working on right now. I wanted to add sales tax (excise tax) to each order. Here in Hawaii, it is just a flat percentage. I found that the discounts would accept negative numbers, and I thought "Great, that will work!". However, since only the first discount is applied, I can't use discount codes with sales tax. I am planning on spending some time trying to adapt the module so that all applicable discounts are applied, but I thought I would throw the idea out here as well.

I've also had some complaints about customers carts being dumped. I haven't researched it much and I'm not sure it has much to do with the checkout module. If anyone has any tips regarding this, they would be appreciated.

-Nate
"I need to make a signature if I stop lurking."

Each individual product+item combo can have it's own price. A product is what's listed in the checkout products table - 6x9 print, 8x12 print etc, and an item is an item in a Gallery Album - typically a photograph. How you adapt those concepts to selling guns, I'm not sure - it's not really designed as a general eCommerce solution. Anyway... to set per-item prices, choose edit photo or edit album then click on the checkout tab for the page where you enter the info specific to that item (or all items in that album and below for information entered at album level.)

Go to the main checkout configuration page and make sure the "Activate Custom Settings" box is checked. You don't need checkoutpaypal unless you want to accept payment via paypal.

Full instructions for installing or updating to the latest version are here:
http://codex.gallery2.org/Gallery2:Modules:checkout

Not at the moment. But you can set a maximum quantity for any product (such as 1), so if anyone orders more than that the quantity is reduced to the limit at the final checkout stage.

ok, got another problem. i can go to the Checkout feature on each image, and see where i am supposed to be able to edit prices on the items. but i cant do anything. All it has are the tables (empty) and what they are. No way to add things, or make changes of any kind...

Raxinii, sounds like you'd be better off using an e-commerce software like http://www.zencart.com/ which is a free, open source shopping cart software.

Hi Alec
Great to see that you are improving on the great module, I have one very slight problem which concerns the display of postage. When somebody adds a photo to the basket it shows all the prices etc but doesn't display the postage drop down, if you then click on continue to checkout it stays on the basket page and some text in green says "Your order requires postage. Please confirm your selection." and the postage drop down appears. Is there any way to have the postage drop down on there when a photo is added to the basket, I notice on your site it seems to be there all the time.

If none of that makes sense I can pm you url's etc. (by the way I am using the latest versions but it did this on the previous version also)

Cheers
Ian

Hi Alec,

I have just implemeted checkout in our sports & event photography site, so far so good, all tests are working great. Just one little thing you may be able to help me with, I have placed the pricing & the cart info in the photopage block, so that people don't have to go back to the thumbnails to add photo to cart, and it's now showing on all photos in gallery, not just the albums that have been enabled for checkout. Clicking on them just goes to an empty cart, but I don't really want the option on there at all if I can help it, am I doing something wrong, or is it a bug in the software?

Great work on this by the way, we wouldn't have been able to do what we wanted without this.

Mick Brown
www.photoworx.com.au

Hi Alec,

I am officially an idiot, or sitting up til 2am trying to go live has fried my brain. The album I went into was showing the price list because checkout was turned on for that album. The rest don't have it.

Thanks for the quick response, this product is awesome, orders are flowing through already, time to donate.

Actually one other question, I would like to change the icons for the add photo to cart, and maybe rename it to "buy this photo", can you steer me to the right place to do it, so I don't stuff up the module?

Mike Brown

If anyone who is subscribed to this thread is interested in using Google Checkout, please see http://gallery.menalto.com/node/80489

Hi Mike. What do you get if you click on any of the other buttons: :payment cleared, order completed, send admin notification?

Also check on the Gallery Main Admin Page that your gallery+webserver is set up to send emails correctly - use the test email button there to confirm it works.

Re: helping with Google Checkout: I think the service is offered on to merchants in the UK and the US - they only allow payment in US Dollars and Sterling, so I don't think it would be any use to you, nor would you even be able to register with Google. Thanks for the offer though.

OK Alec,

I take that back, I just had a customer ring me, and she pressed Submit Order in the checkout and it's done the same as above. I haven't actually done anything in the code, so I don't know what could have caused this?

Mike

Syntax errors you'd made in your custom modifications to the checkoutemail/templates/email/confirm.tpl were preventing Smarty from rendering the template. Fixing the errors solved the problem.

Checkout (as you've probably guessed) is entirely engineered to my own personal preferences and I don't use titles, only filenames, so that's what I have. There's no reason why your installation has to do the same, of course, the code's quite easy to change: for each line-item there are two pieces of textual information stored in the db, and they're set in file Confirm.inc, at lines 169,170:

		    $txnItem->setItemName($item['pathComponent']);
		    $txnItem->setItemText($item['parentTitle']);

You can set them however you like.

For instance, you could have the following instead:

		    $txnItem->setItemName($item['title']);
		    $txnItem->setItemText($item['summary'] . ' '.$item['keywords']);

PS Checkout 0.4.0 is on the way ... no new features, but some useful bug fixes and better translation code for emails.

PPS is there *really* nobody who's interested in Google Checkout as a payment method?