TreasureChest: MODx eCommerce solution.

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thehen Reply #211, 16 years, 11 months ago

Hi thanks for the reply.

Yeah I figured it would be in the Jquery but I can’t for the life of me see how to modify it to my needs - it seems to be uber compressed beyond customisation.

This seems to be controlling the classes:

|tc_cart_view_text|tc_cart_count|tc_count|tc_cart_empty|

But I can’t work out what these correspond to?...

Any ideas, or is there a non-minified version floating around?

Thanks!

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French Fries Reply #212, 16 years, 11 months ago

Yes I have seen for sure an unpacked version somewhere on modxcms.com forums but can’t exactly remember where.

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thehen Reply #213, 16 years, 11 months ago

Cool I found an unpacked version here:

http://modxcms.com/forums/index.php?topic=24529.0

It pretty much works apart from the fading but changing this:

    cartCount);
    $(cart_el).animate({
        opacity: '0.9'
    },
    'fast').animate({
        opacity: '1.0'
    },
    'normal');
    $(a).animate({
        opacity: '1.0'
    },
    'fast').animate({
        opacity: '1.0'
    },

to this:

    cartCount);
    $(cart_el).animate({
        opacity: '0'
    },
    'fast').animate({
        opacity: '1.0'
    },
    'normal');
    $(a).animate({
        opacity: '0'
    },
    'fast').animate({
        opacity: '1.0'
    },

makes it work fine!

Thanks for the help!

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dubbs Reply #214, 16 years, 10 months ago

Has Treasure Chest been revived? Last I heard it was no longer supported? Does it work with UK Paypal? How is the post of details handled? via a URL string? or via a POST / GET? Am conscious of security of the transaction menthod.

Cheers

dubbs

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Jul Reply #215, 16 years, 10 months ago

Has Treasure Chest been revived? Last I heard it was no longer supported?

There is a tentative to help those interested in adding new features to TreasureChest.
Read this if you don’t fear to get your hands dirty wink

http://modxcms.com/forums/index.php/topic,42276.0.html

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anonymized-26931 Reply #216, 16 years, 10 months ago

Hey Jul,

There is a tentative to help those interested in adding new features to TreasureChest.
Read this if you don’t fear to get your hands dirty

why not rather jump in on Shopkeeper which has great potential and is actively developed?
http://modxcms.com/forums/index.php/topic,42337.0.html
http://modxcms.com/forums/index.php?topic=41806.0

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Jul Reply #217, 16 years, 10 months ago

Hey Sharkbait,
I ignored the Shopkeeper projet. I’ll have a look at it. Thanks.

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thomasgrant Reply #218, 16 years, 10 months ago

I have become extremely frustrated and disappointed with some of the MODx "extras" available here. I hate to knock anyone, but it’s very annoying to have to spend entire day to piece together something that doesn’t seem like a difficult task at first glance.

I started with KiweeCommerce, the installer for that refused to complete successfully for me. I was unable to find any valuable support within a reasonable amount of time. I did submit my issue to the GoogleCode page for that project. I was most interested in that initially due to the fact it mentions it worked with Authorize.Net.

When that did not work out for me, I decided to give TreasureChest a try. I was skeptical seeing that it was written by the same person as who wrote FilePE - yet another MODx extra that I have struggled with to get working previously. It works (kinda). There is one problem that I posted to the support forum topic but still haven’t received support whatsoever.

I really don’t want to hate on Scotty as I don’t even know the guy, but I have an entire day wasted on something without a working product.

He self-admitted to being poor with writing documentation. This has to be my number one pet peeve with open source applications. The documentation that he has presented is very clear, but it seems to be lacking. He also seems to not include any working examples. Granted, he has a demo, but that’s only half of what you need to see to get it going.

Problems that I have/am encountering with TreasureChest:

1. Installer seemed to complete successfully. However, I was getting a blank page when selecting TreasureChest from the Modules menu within the manager. I found one thread concerning this problem with a Google search, but contained nothing of use to me. I poked around inside of "index.php" for TreasureChest to see what steps it took in the installation process that may have been missed. Sure enough, I noticed the following lines near the bottom:

rename('dummy.html', 'index.html');
rename(MODX_BASE_PATH.'install/', MODX_BASE_PATH.'assets/snippets/treasure_chest/');

I noticed that "install/" was not renamed/moved, nor was "dummy.html". So I took the liberty of doing that myself. That gave me the correct screen that I was looking for when I clicked on "TreasureChest" under the Modules menu.

2. I was able to make changes within the TreasureChest module just fine. So I can check that off the list. But what about displaying the "cart" page that the documentation asked me to create? What about displaying a "product" page once I created that as the documentation asked me to? They both came up blank. Am I doing everything correctly I wonder. Is it my fault? Is it the fault of the installer?

So I poke around within this support thread and find someone giving additional code to display the details for an item. This was to be included in the "product" page, in addition to what is listed in the documentation. When I view that, it displays almost everything it should based on the parameters and placeholders used. I’m starting to understand how the pieces fit together now. But, this documentation is just not very thorough. Not enough to get someone started without headaches.

To recap, I can now make changes to the configuration, the cart page is not displaying anything, the single product page that I have created for the only product that I have displays some things.

If there is anyone out there who could please help me with this one, I would very much appreciate it! PLEASE!

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Jul Reply #219, 16 years, 10 months ago

Hi Thomas and everyone,

I agree that setting up a first TreasureChest cart is not ultra-easy.

Terry’s notes on TreasureChest helped me a lot and TC works fine for me. You can find them easily as a Word document if you type "Terry notes on TresureChest" in a good search engine. Terry also has a working TreasureChest demo on his website.

TreasureChest, although limited, has the merit to be stable.
I think that in comparison Kiwee e-commerce has remained like a prototype, but I must admit that I did not really tried it myself.

My company can also install TreasureChest for you, in either English/French/German/Spanish/Italian/Greek language and configure it as well as PayPal. Currently, I have only done a French translation but others are possible. You can contact me by email if interested.

Regards.

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mconsidine Reply #220, 16 years, 10 months ago

I had not tried to install TreasureChest before so I was curious about the above discussion. Nor had I seen the notes referred to above (e.g "Terry’s...") So I pulled down the ZIP file and the document and gave it a shot, adding to Terry’s notes as I went along.

I got it installed, it shows products, the cart and punches out to Paypal for processing. (But since I don’t have a Paypal Business account and haven’t yet figured out how to setup the Paypal sandbox, I couldn’t go "full circle" on a test transaction.)

I have placed my edited version of "Terry’s" notes here in the hope they are helpful :
http://www.considine.net/mac/Notes_on_Treasure_Chest_20091121.doc (3.6MB, MSFT Word doc)

Can anyone who has set this up with "Sandbox" Paypal testing outline what needs to be done on that end?
MattC
PS My notes are in bold red, ending with my initials and the date. Also, the test was done on an Evo 1.0.0 site