Attention [checkout] users: version 0.4.2 beta

Actually it isn't, I just wanted to get your attention.

Could a few volunteers please test the latest (4.2 beta) version of checkout:

New features: records a "special instructions" field along with each order, from the order page, so customers can input some free text that will be included in the order record

Has a "View Cart" system link, and an "Admin Orders" one (for administrators).

Records and displays the times that orders were cleared/completed/etc.

The upgrade involves some dicking about with the checkout transaction tables in the db, so I'd appreciate it if a few people could try the upgrade first, preferably on a disposable installation or one for which you have a backup. I've upgraded my (live) installation, and it works in tests, but ... wouldn't like any hidden glitches to catch anyone unprepared. (The worst outcome is that you have to uninstall/reinstall checkout.)

Oh, and because of the new Special Instructions field, a few of the templates have changed. So don't forget to re-make anything in your local/ directories.

Please report here problems with (only) this 4.2 beta release.

Thanks

Hallo Alec,

Argl, gulp...!...okay (this sounds like a serious threat) I will test it today substantially (never had I thought you would use such *words) and report after that, immediately. I have to upgrade Gallery first (I guess, I should) to 2.3.

Until later, nice greetings, Dirk.

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Yes, the same with me, after uploading the checkout folder, this, checkout-4-2.png (see below), is shown in the admin section, clicking "upgrade" opens a page displaying this:

Nice greetings, Dirk.

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www.galerie-der-fotos.de

Okay, great Alec,

(oops, error: Alec`s last posting is gone, try again) I have uploaded the checkout folder and overwritten the existing checkout 4.2, because I couldn`t find any buttons, links to deinstall. When clicking on "upgrade" (to 4.2) the (may be exactly) same error messages came like I posted before.

Then deleting the checkout folder before uploading 4.2 and clicking "upgrade" went wrong, also, same messages.

Then installed 4.1, uninstalled 4.1, installed 4.1, 4.1 seemed to be running well, uploaded 4.2 folder, refreshed "Plugins" page or went to "Plugins" page, clicked "upgrade", this displayed:

Do not know, what I might be missing.

Nice greetings, Dirk.

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www.galerie-der-fotos.de

Okay Alec,

I`ll wait here, take your time.

Couple of code changes mean that an update to checkoutdownload is probably required:

Hi Dirk,

I think you have to copy the old version back, uninstall, reinstall, then upgrade with the new code.

hi Dirkii,

You have to uninstall checkout completely. Then delete the checkout directory. Then refresh the get-more-plugins page. Then download 4.1. Then configure and activate it. Then download the new code. Then hit the upgrade button.

Hi Dirkii,

I've run it through that procedure twice on each of two installations now, and I think the upgrade works ok. But I'd still like someone else to try it - thanks for having another go.

Hi Dirkii

Please post the error message that you get (don't just say "same as last time")

thanks

Hi Alec,

Just installed the 4.2beta and it is running smoothly... The only problems i seem to have is, I can't configure the paper and postage options? I have attached a screenshot of the Checkout Configuration page..

Many Thanks

Sorry I think I was receiving those errors because I hadn't upgraded correctly, but now when I try to upgrade I receive the following error:

Error Detail -
Error (ERROR_STORAGE_FAILURE)

* in modules/core/classes/GalleryStorage/GalleryStorageExtras.class at line 959 (GalleryCoreApi::error)
* in modules/core/classes/GalleryStorage.class at line 507 (GalleryStorageExtras::execute)
* in modules/checkout/module.inc at line 561 (GalleryStorage::execute)
* in modules/core/classes/GalleryModule.class at line 175 (CheckoutModule::upgrade)
* in modules/core/PluginCallback.inc at line 230 (GalleryModule::installOrUpgrade)
* in modules/core/PluginCallback.inc at line 67 (PluginCallbackView::handleCallback)
* in main.php at line 450 (PluginCallbackView::renderImmediate)
* in main.php at line 104
* in main.php at line 88

I've found a minor defect with the 4.2 code. Anyone using it will need to add the following:

checkout/classes/CheckoutTransactionEventHelper.class, line 288: from

     }

to:

 	    } else {
		$toAddress = $recipient['toAddress'];
    	    }

Hi Steven,

Hurrah. Thanks for letting me know.

Please make the mod in the post above though - otherwise emails go wrong.

Additional point: it may be necessary to clear the template cache on upgrade, as the admin page template has changed. Otherwise the email and postage/paper options don't appear.

4.2 is fine, as a new install. It's the upgrade from an existing 4.1 installation to 4.2 that I want people to test. The upgrade code creates some new table columns, copies data into them then deletes the old columns. It also transfers the email addreses, paper details and postage settings into new formats. Because of the template change, a template cache delete is required.

The 4.2 code is now in the repository, so no need to download it from this thread (I'm removing it). I'm starting work on 4.3, which will have a new 'accessories' feature that you can use to offer things like frames and mounts with every order.

Yes, that's fine. Might be a template glitch on the module - have you deleted your template cache?

I tried to upgrade from 0.2.1 to 0.4.1 and now I get nothing but errors AND now my uninstall option is gone. My hope was that I could do a manual install of 0.4.2 and clear up the problem, but I don't see a link for it anywhere on this page. HELP! My checkout is hosed and it seems like my hands are tied. Replacing the directory with the original 0.2.1 doesn't work either. The only other thing I can think to try is to restore my entire site from backup, but that would undo my gallery 2.3 upgrade. I can successfully update, configure and install checkoutpaypal and I have tried installing that fixed CheckoutPaypalHelper class, but none of that affects checkout.

Any help would be greatly appreaciated.

Here are my errors in case that's helpful:
Error (ERROR_STORAGE_FAILURE) : Error trying to run query: ALTER TABLE g2_CheckoutTransaction ADD g_security NVARCHAR(32) NOT NULL
in C:\Inetpub\wwwCIGAC\gallery2\modules\core\classes\GalleryStorage\GalleryStorageExtras.class at line 1707 (GalleryCoreApi::error)
in C:\Inetpub\wwwCIGAC\gallery2\modules\core\classes\GalleryStorage\GalleryStorageExtras.class at line 1363 (GalleryStorageExtras::_executeSql)
in C:\Inetpub\wwwCIGAC\gallery2\modules\core\classes\GalleryStorage.class at line 768 (GalleryStorageExtras::configureStore)
in C:\Inetpub\wwwCIGAC\gallery2\modules\checkout\module.inc at line 370 (GalleryStorage::configureStore)
in C:\Inetpub\wwwCIGAC\gallery2\modules\core\classes\GalleryModule.class at line 175 (CheckoutModule::upgrade)
in C:\Inetpub\wwwCIGAC\gallery2\modules\core\PluginCallback.inc at line 230 (GalleryModule::installOrUpgrade)
in C:\Inetpub\wwwCIGAC\gallery2\modules\core\PluginCallback.inc at line 67 (PluginCallbackView::handleCallback)
in C:\Inetpub\wwwCIGAC\gallery2\main.php at line 450 (PluginCallbackView::renderImmediate)
in C:\Inetpub\wwwCIGAC\gallery2\main.php at line 104
in C:\Inetpub\wwwCIGAC\gallery2\main.php at line 88
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Gallery version 2.3
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Hi Softco,

As you're upgrading to 4.1, not to 4.2, can you open a new thread with this issue and I'll try to help there.

Hi Swampy:

I need to know about the errors on your upgrade to 4.2 - but it's too late now, as you've uninstalled.
checkoutdownload has also been updated, please download new code for this. Also please be specific about the problem with the delete orders - describe in detail what you do, and what happens (or doesn't happen) and what you see on screen. Thanks.

Hi Paul,

Thanks for the update. Hmmm... 2 versions of the PDF section? I'd ask if you have the module installed twice, but (and I've had to to go through this myself) that won't work unless you change quite a lot of the code. Let me think about that one.

Hi Swampy,

Sessions and transactions are not the same thing. Sessions are what's in people's carts, and handled by the Gallery session-handling code. If you start deleting them then people will have to log-in again (if they were logged in), lose their cart contents, language preferences (as if they'd had their browser's cookie cache deleted.) The "session" features of checkout are a bit cheeky, as far as I know checkout is the only module to allow you to alter other people's session contents. There's no checkout method for deleting sessions.

Transactions are created when you go to the final checkout page. They're entirely different to sessions, and entirely under the control of checkout. There's no change to the transaction-handling code between 4.1 and 4.2.

Also you should know that the version number doesn't tell you everything you need to know about the code - you need to look at the code revision number, in the plugins update page. Even if you have the latest 'version' number, you may still need to update.

@sessions: no need to delete them, all gallery installations have a long session table. Gallery core has the code to remove them when they age - there's no point worrying about them. I have about 1000 sessions with carts in at any one time, all created by various search bots visiting random "add-to-cart" links. Don't sweat it.

What else is a problem?

4.1 doesn't have a download button until after you complete the checkout process. That can be before you pay (if you tick the box in the checkoutdownload admin page) but you do need to go through the checkoutemail or checkoutpaypal or checkoutgoogle process first.

A long time ago there was an option for a download *before* checkout, but it was removed in, I think version 0.2.x.

Add this code to your confirm.tpl file:

{g->callback type="checkoutdownload.downloadInfo" transactionId=$tpl.id}
<div class="gbBlock">
<h3>
{g->text text="Download Information"}
</h3>
{if $block.checkoutDownload.downloadTest == 'permit'}
 <form action="{g->url}" method="post">
{g->hiddenFormVars}
<p>{g->text text="Please use the button to download your items."}</p>
<input type="submit" class="inputTypeSubmit" name="{g->formVar var="form[downloadZip]"}" value="{g->text text="Download Items in ZIP format"}"/>
<input type="hidden" name="{g->formVar var=transactionId"}" value="{$tpl.id}">
<input type="hidden" name="{g->formVar var="verify1"}" value="{$block.checkoutDownload.verify1}">
<input type="hidden" name="{g->formVar var="verify2"}" value="{$block.checkoutDownload.verify2}"> 
<input type="hidden" name="{g->formVar var="controller"}" value="checkoutdownload.BuildDownload"/> 
<br/>
<p>{g->text text="No. of times downloading has been attempted:"}{$block.checkoutDownload.downloadAttempts}</p>
{elseif $block.checkoutDownload.downloadTest == 'empty'}
<p>{g->text text="This order does not include any downloadable items."}</p>
{elseif $block.checkoutDownload.downloadTest == 'outOfTime'}
<p>{g->text text="The time period for downloading items in this order has expired."}</p>
{elseif $block.checkoutDownload.downloadTest == 'notPaid'}
<p>{g->text text="Items in this order can be downloaded when payment is cleared."}</p>
{elseif $block.checkoutDownload.downloadTest == 'tooManyDownloads'}
<p>{g->text text="The limit on the number of times this order may be downloaded has already been reached."}</p>
{else}
<p>{g->text text="Oh wie!"}</p>
{/if}
{if $block.checkoutDownload.downloaded > 1}
<p>{g->text text="The last download attempt was at"} {g->date timestamp=$block.checkoutDownload.downloaded style = "datetime"}</p>
{/if}
</div>

The last update to checkoutdownload changed the way downloads are created, by always building them from the original image so that they could be resized (so you can have different sized downloads at different prices.) That means, however, that there's no longer a way to have a watermark added to the downloaded image.

It would be possible in future to extend checkoutdownload so you can have a watermark added, including per-user watermarks, watermarks with the date of download, or other exciting stuff, but it would be a lot of work.

Alec,

Maybe this is not specific to this version but,
I'm getting a regular number of orders where people opt to pay by cheque then enter no details (pressing a CR on the enter details page I assume. Is there any way to fool-proof this?

Hello,

I installed checkout 0.4.2 and checkout e-mail 0.4.0 with 4 other languages but it remain alwais in english. In fact in modules/checkout/po there is no other languages. Where can I found this missing files? When I uninstall and install again nothing changes.

Thanks

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