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I have installed the contribution with following the steps mentioned in page 1 of this post. For some reason, I am always getting a "0" order number. I have looked at the code, but it seems fine. I am not sure what the problem is.

 

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I have installed the contribution. But it didn't work, so I reverted to the back up. But it still wont work.

I have changed the database to INT(11) and set it to auto inc. but it only generates one order number of "1". Because of this I am getting an error on my checkout page for a duplicate entry in order table, order ID.

 

Please advice

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If you have a backup of your database, try restoring it.

 

I had similar issues after adding the code, but after restoring the backup & making the change to the database again, it seems to be working fine. :)

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This is great addition to OSC. I would like to get this to work on my site. I have been trying for several month to get different versions of this to work and finally gave up.

 

I have applied every step that is mentioned here, even tried different random codes but always come up with a duplicate error"". There is no value in the quotes, it's like it is not even seeing ordernum value.

 

When I switched to the backup, I get a "Duplicate error of "214..." number. that number never seems to change. I did change the tables to INT(11) but still getting that number error.

 

 

Please let me know how to get this addition to work correctly. Is there anything that I missed. Please let me know if you need the code for any page.

Thank You

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I have tried this command

 

alter table orders change orders_id orders_id varchar( 11 ) not null auto_increment

 

 

I am getting this error:

 

Incorrect column specifier for column 'orders_id'

 

I can set it to VARCHAR(11) without auto inc.

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Auto increment means that it increases by one every time a new row (order) is added and only works on integer types (e.g. INT).

 

This thread is about creating random order numbers. This is a different selection method than auto-increment, and they are mutually exclusive. It can be INT(11) auto-increment *or* varchar(11) and made to be random, not both.

 

Which do you want to do?

 

Hth,

Matt

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I would like to make the order number random. I have tried with both INT(11) and VARCHAR(11) but it still wont work. The process always gives me a

duplicate error of "" for key 1

It is not even reading the ordernum value despite following all the steps precicly. I can post the checkout process.php file and your help would be greatly apprectiated.

 

 

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Did you run

alter table orders change orders_id orders_id varchar( 11 ) not null

and verify that the database took it?

 

Hth,

Matt

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I installed this contribution too, and everything "seems" fine. However, when I went to the admin->customers->orders to update the test orders that i made to "delivered" I receive the error " Error: Order does not exist." in the pink highlight at the top of the page. I looked in the orders table on my database and see that the orders do in fact exist in the table with the updated order numbers. Can anyone think of anything that I've missed? See below

 

Orders table:

orders_id  customers_id  customers_name 

MX0904030 23 Lala Myers 

AZ0904039 18 Micki Cheers

 

Order status history:

  orders_status_history_id  orders_id  orders_status_id 

33 MX0904030 1 

34 AZ0904039 1

 

Looks like I have some type of problem with orders_status_history_id attempting to increment. Please advise.

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I read all the posts in here trying to find an idea/solution for my order numbers...

 

All my offline paperwork (including invoices is based on a clear structure (for me anyway) which includes a reference for : type of document, date, a customer code, a customer's index. Additionaly, invoices have a full index at the end.

 

An example for a "reference" could be : I-030906-ABCD-07-057

 

This translates as follows :

 

I - stands for Invoice (other letters mean Order, Service, Rma, ...)

03 - year 2003

09 - september

06 - day 6

ABCD - it's a unique customer 4 letter code based on name

07 - means this is the 7th invoice for this customer

057 - this is the 57th invoice (sequential coding // auto_increment)

 

What I would like to do with osC Order numbers would be to catch :

 

- year, month and day

- client's 4 letter customer code (from the customers table)

 

I would be willing to drop the customers index (07 here above) if I can use all the rest WITH an auto_increment at the end !!!

 

That would allow me to combine both online AND offline business.

 

Does this make any sense to you ?....

 

Thanks in advance !

 

Paulo.

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i also wanted to mention that the order number is cast to an (int) all over the place in the code. I had to take out most of these occurances before i finally ended up taking the letters out of my random order number. i'm all too sure that this is the cause of at least a few people's problems.

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Yes, I couldn't get this to work when using 2 letters before the order number. I would get Order Does Not Exist in my admin panel. So I changed the code to 10 for the first few digits and it all seems to work now...

 

Change $ordernum line to:

 

$ordernum = '10'.$t1.$r1;

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I have read all 9 pages - and got some useful tips, but no matter what I do, I ALWAYS get 'ORDER DOES NOT EXIST' error if trying to edit order status etc.....

 

I am using only numbers in my order number, I have changed order_id to VARCHAR in all applicable tables....

 

Please help me.

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Further to my above post - I have done a complete new install on a different server, and done the random order number modification only. I did this as I though maybe other mods on my original installation was causing a problem. Anyway, brand new install, made the changes, and still Order does not exist problem.

 

I then changed the tables back to original (INT(11)) and orders table to Auto_increment and went back to edit and now it all functions properly ie: no order exist errors. But of course now, the tables are not set correct to maintain these random numbers......

 

please help me....and I have been battling with this for about 6 hours now....back and forth....backuping up original, editing, searching for the problem....

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I originally couldn't get this working either - like others, orders were not being found. Mine does now work, and follows a similar logic to fasteddie's solution:

Yes, I couldn't get this to work when using 2 letters before the order number. I would get Order Does Not Exist in my admin panel. So I changed the code to 10 for the first few digits and it all seems to work now...

 

Change $ordernum line to:

 

$ordernum = '10'.$t1.$r1;

Instead of removing $l1 and $l, I just changed the $input array to use the nine singular digits, instead of the 26 letter characters

 

Mine now simply looks like this:

$t1 = date("mdy"); 
srand ((float) microtime() * 10000000); 
$input = array ("1", "2", "3", "4", "5", "6", "7", "8", "9"); 
$rand_keys = array_rand ($input, 2); 
$l1 = $input[$rand_keys[0]]; 
$l2 = $input[$rand_keys[1]]; 
$r1 = rand(0,9);

$ordernum = $l1.$l2.$t1.$r1;

 

Which generates order numbers like so: 781031038

 

Hope that helps!

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Sigh, I'm stumped - why can't I use a different (more logical) date format? If I use

$t1 = date("mdy");

then the orders exist and can be viewed/invoiced etc. If however, I change the date string to ymd, or Ymd, or anything with year at the front, then the order fails to exist - why?!

 

This is really, really bugging me.

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did this ever get resolved -have been working with all the comments throughout these posts for several hours with no success - my issue however, similar to some, is that no order # is actually posting - so it appears when a second order is placed that a duplicate entry is trying to post because again no order # is posting....

 

thoughts?

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This is what I did to get this working

 

 

1. Change orders_id type from INT(11) to VARCHAR(17) in the following tables:

 

orders

orders_products

orders_products_attributes

orders_products_download

orders_status_history

orders_total

 

Turn Auto_increment OFF in orders table

 

 

2. Paste the following script right before this line in checkout_process.php

 

// load the before_process function from the payment modules

 

 

$t1 = date("mdy"); 
srand ((float) microtime() * 10000000); 
$input = array ("1", "2", "3", "4", "5", "6", "7", "8", "9"); 
$rand_keys = array_rand ($input, 2); 
$l1 = $input[$rand_keys[0]]; 
$l2 = $input[$rand_keys[1]]; 
$r1 = rand(100,999); 

$ordernum = $l1.$l2.$t1.$r1;

 

3. Change the following code:

 

$sql_data_array = array('customers_id' => $customer_id,

 

to the following code:

 

$sql_data_array = array('orders_id' => $ordernum,

'customers_id' => $customer_id,

 

4. Change this Code:

 

$insert_id = tep_db_insert_id();

 

to the following code:

 

$insert_id = $ordernum;

 

This produces a random order number like 25100202599

 

 

If you are having problems editing your orders do the following::

 

In edit_order.php CHANGE all instances of

 

(int)$oID

 

to

 

$oID

 

 

I also have the MANUAL ORDER ENTRY CONTRIBUTION installed and had to do the following steps as well:

 

1. In create_order_process.php after:

 

    include(DIR_WS_LANGUAGES . $language . '/' . FILENAME_CREATE_ORDER_PROCESS);

?>
<?php

 

ADD:

 

$t1 = date("mdy"); 
srand ((float) microtime() * 10000000); 
$input = array ("1", "2", "3", "4", "5", "6", "7", "8", "9"); 
$rand_keys = array_rand ($input, 2); 
$l1 = $input[$rand_keys[0]]; 
$l2 = $input[$rand_keys[1]]; 
$r1 = rand(100,999); 

$ordernum = $l1.$l2.$t1.$r1;

 

 

2. Change the following code:

 

$sql_data_array = array('customers_id' => $customer_id,

 

to the following code:

 

$sql_data_array = array('orders_id' => $ordernum, 
'customers_id' => $customer_id,

 

3. Change this Code:

 

$insert_id= tep_db_insert_ id();

 

to the following code:

 

$insert_id = $ordernum;

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Hey gus,

 

You have to fix /admin/orders.php as previously suggested:

 

Change:

(int)$oID

 

To:

(int)$oID

 

And you have to fix /admin/classes/order.php also:

 

Change:

(int)$order_id

 

To:

$order_id

 

I was having similar problems, but this solved it.

 

Good luck.

 

KS

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I've read all the posts and the problems that happen in the download.php, editing orders, and viewing order history and status.

 

There is a simple SOLUTION. All the problems happen because the default oscommerce version assumes the 'order_id' is an interger (int). So when all the columns in the table are changed from 'int' to 'varchar', you have to go through the pain of changing the script and renaming varibles ( e.g. (int)$oid to $iod ). And trust me it gets complicated and causes problems in various other pages.

 

Instead:

 

(1) DO NOT include any HYPENS or LETTERS in the random order number, just simple INTEGERS.

 

(2) Change the column 'order_id' in TABLES orders, orders_products, orders_products_attributes, orders_products_download, orders_status_history and orders_total to BIGINT(20). So you DO NOT HAVE TO ALTER ANY SCRIPTS! The column is still considerd an integer.

 

(3) Place whatever algoritham you want to use to generate your order number in checkout_process.php right before:

// load the before_process function from the payment modules

 

*** NOTE make sure that the algoritham does NOT have any hypens or letters... only integers.

 

For example:

 

srand ((float) microtime() * 10000000);

$r1 = rand(1000,9999);

$t1 = date("yzHis");

 

$ordernum = $t1.$r1;

 

(4) Change the following code in checkout_process.php:

 

$sql_data_array = array('customers_id' => $customer_id,

 

to the following code:

 

$sql_data_array = array('orders_id' => $ordernum,

'customers_id' => $customer_id,

 

(5) Change this Code on the same page:

 

$insert_id = tep_db_insert_id();

 

to the following code:

 

$insert_id = $ordernum;

 

So, now you get a number like 5781838173280.

 

'5' being the year 2005 (It is NOT '05', b/c as a BIGINT the first '0' is dropped)

'78' being the number of the day in the year

'18' being the hour (24-hour)

'38' is minutes

'17' is seconds

'3280' random number

 

Now you wont have any problems either in your other pages, and you dont have to alter anything else... very simple.

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also the files

1. account_history.php

account_history_info.php

 

chould be corected.

 

ad1.

insted of

(int)$history['orders_id']

shuld be

$history['orders_id']

 

ad2.

istead

(int)$HTTP_GET_VARS['order_id']

should be

$HTTP_GET_VARS['order_id']

 

and if you use varchar(11) or varchar(17)

insted of the line about 19

if (!isset($HTTP_GET_VARS['order_id']) || (isset($HTTP_GET_VARS['order_id']) && !is_numeric($HTTP_GET_VARS['order_id']))) {

should be

if (!isset($HTTP_GET_VARS['order_id']) ) {

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