Might be another stupid question

[Guest]

Is there a way that I can make my whole catalogue on special as a grand opening? Or do I have to do each item idividually?

 

 

Thanks again!

[nrlatsha]

look at the salemaker contrib.

 

http://www.oscommerce.com/community/contributions,1340

[Guest]

Ok, I've downloaded it & I have no idea how to install it. The read me file is not really clear as I am totally dumb when it comes to programing. I'm sure that if you look around, you will see that this is not my first post.

 

This is exactly what I'm looking for as a mod, but I'm never sure how to incorporate them into my store. I hope someone can "dumb-it-down" for me!

 

Thanks!

[nrlatsha]

Did you download the second one and not the first. The second one has the full install and very complete instructions.

[Guest]

SaleMaker.php 2.2MS2v1.01 2002/07/14

 

The SaleMaker contribution provides store-owners with the necessary tools for defining, managing and exploiting StoreSales.

It was written/tested using version 2.2 MileStone 2 (2.2MS2) of the osCommerce software dated july 12th 2003 .

 

osCommerce:

Open Source E-Commerce Solutions

http://www.oscommerce.com

Copyright © 2003 osCommerce

Released under the GNU General Public License

 

SaleMaker:

Contribution to OScommerce providing the tools for defining, managing and exploiting StoreSales.

http://www.hmcs.nl

Copyright © 2003 HMCservices, Marcel van Lieshout

Released under the GNU General Public License

 

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* This contribution would never be possible without the creativity of "BirdBrain"  *

* and my other friends at the "OSC Think Tank and Tangents".    *

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Purpose:

Provides store-owners with the necessary tools for defining, managing and exploiting StoreSales.

 

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Change Log:

2.2MS2v1.01:

International dates were handled incorrectly. Fixed.

 

2.2MS2v1.00:

First release to the OScommerce community.

 

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Languages:

Following OSC-software conventions, the contribution is fully multi-language capable. As I only use English in

my admin, English is the only language included.

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Changes to OSC-software :

An overview of the installation-changes:

 

Database:

  Table salemaker_sales added

 

Changed files:

  admin/includes/database_tables.php

  admin/includes/filenames.php

  admin/includes/stylesheet.css

 

  admin/includes/boxes/catalog.php

 

  admin/includes/javascript/spiffyCal/spiffyCal_v2_1.js

 

  admin/includes/languages/english.php

 

  catalog/specials.php

 

  catalog/includes/database_tables.php

 

  catalog/includes/boxes/specials.php

 

  catalog/includes/classes/shopping_cart.php

 

  catalog/includes/functions/general.php

 

  catalog/includes/modules/new_products.php

  catalog/includes/modules/product_listing.php

 

New Files:

  admin/salemaker.php

  admin/salemaker_info.php

 

  admin/images/thinktank.jpg

 

  admin/includes/languages/english/salemaker.php

  admin/includes/languages/english/salemaker_info.php

  admin/includes/languages/english/images/buttons/button_new_sale.gif

 

 

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Precautions:

As always: BACKUP YOUR DATABASE AND FILES BEFORE ATTEMPTING TO INSTALL THIS CONTRIBUTION.

 

New Installation:

Database:

  Execute the changes contained in salemaker.sql. The easiest way to do this is by using phpmyadmin.

 

Changed files:

  DO NOT COPY THE CHANGED FILES IN THE CONTRIBUTION TO YOUR STORE, THE FILES ARE NOT COMPLETE.

  The Changed files have the extension .chg (eg. database_tables.php.chg). I've put the directions to

                make the changes in these files. There should be enough information to merge the changes into

  your store's files.

 

New files:

  Copy them to the correct directories in your store.

 

Update from previous versions:

2.2MS2v1.00 -> 2.2MS2v1.01:

  admin/salemaker.php    copy file

  admin/includes/languages/english.php  re-apply changes

 

  A new define has been added to the language-file. The setting might be different for each language.

  A few examples:

  US-English: define('DATE_FORMAT_SPIFFYCAL', 'MM/dd/yyyy');

  UK-English: define('DATE_FORMAT_SPIFFYCAL', 'dd/MM/yyyy');

  Dutch  : define('DATE_FORMAT_SPIFFYCAL', 'dd-MM-yyyy');

  German    : define('DATE_FORMAT_SPIFFYCAL', 'dd.MM.yyyy');

 

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Activation:

Go to the "Catalog/SaleMaker" section of your Admin-module. Here you will see the new SaleMaker managementmodule.

Play with it for a while to learn the in and outs of all the settings. Your catalog will respond dynamically

to the Sales you define. If you like the catalogtree in the managementmodule to use the 'AutoCheck'-feature,

set the 'define' at the top of admin/salemaker.php to 'True'.

 

 

Questions, suggestions, comments, critics, compliments, ... : [email protected]

 

Cheerio!

 

Marcel van Lieshout

 

 

 

This is what is in the readme file. Like I had mentioned, it doesn't tell me what to do. I have no idea how to work in myphpadmin....