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[Victor D]

I'm tired a bit explaining this to everyone

Bubble and 'New products' category are not the same.
Bubble shows new products since last visit only.
It doesn't matter how many days set in your admin since this option is used for 'New products' category.

To see the bubble you need to
- open your store on other computer (in the other browser) to set the 'last visit' cookie there
- close this browser
- add new product in you current browser
- open your store on other computer one more time

Thus it works like this:
- when the customer opens your store and already has the cookie of his last visit and some products were added since then he will see the bubble with the number of these products and the link to see them.
- when he closes this bubble or follows the link he will get new 'last visit' cookie.

[ibdmanhb]

Thanks for the reply, I will try the sequence you described. Sorry for the trouble, the reviews sounded so good I couldn't wait to get it working.

Thank you again

[mrerotic]

Victor thank you.

One question is there a way of only showing new products that have a thumbnail? Let me know. THX

[mrerotic]

Victor - Also how can I make the new category in the category menu for "Whats New" look different than my other categories, this way it sticks out better?

[Victor D]

One question is there a way of only showing new products that have a thumbnail?

There is no impossible things. But this feature is time-consuming since it requires significant changes.

how can I make the new category in the category menu for "Whats New" look different than my other categories

turn 'what's new' category off by commenting the line
Code:

$smarty->assign($var_name, $wn_cats);

(replace it with)
Code:

#$smarty->assign($var_name, $wn_cats);

in the file modules/Whats_New/categories.php

And insert in your categories list (skin1/customer/categories.tpl) manually with some class specified.

You can use this link home.php?cat=0&WhatsNew=Y to show New products dialog.

[mrerotic]

1) Is there a way to not show "Bestsellers" on the whats new page if you have it enabled?
2) Also yes I can make the 'Whats New' category look different, but what if I want 2 more other categories to be up there with the 'Whats New' that look the same as it?
3) Can you make the 'Whas New' category specific for products?
4) Can you make it show products in a 3 column matrix if your main settings are set to just list products?
5) Is there anyway to give this category a description?

Thanks Victor.

[canuck]

Hi,

I installed whats new, but had to remove the bubble as it was causing server errors... I think that may be fixed in a more current release as mine is older.

But I'm also occasionally getting SQL errors:

SQL query : select count(*) from xcart_products where add_date > \"1250006896, last_visit=1250119968\" and add_date < 1250119979
Error code : 1064
Description : You have an error in your SQL syntax; check the manual that corresponds to your MySQL server version for the right syntax to use near '\"1250006896, last_visit=1250119968\" and add_date < 1250119979' at line 1
Request URI: /antibot_image.php?section=on_send_to_friend
Backtrace:
/XXX/include/func/func.db.php:180
/XXX/include/func/func.db.php:106
/XXX/include/func/func.db.php:351
/XXX/modules/Whats_New/config.php:10
/XXX/init.php:614
/XXX/antibot_image.php:40

where /XXX is my public_html directory of course...

Thoughts? Would both my problems be fixed with a current release?
I'm on XCart Gold 4.1.10

[mrerotic]

I would try the newer I had no problems... I'm on 4.2.1 though.

[Victor D]

SQL query : select count(*) from xcart_products where add_date > \"1250006896, last_visit=1250119968\" and add_date < 1250119979

please attach your modules/Whats_New/config.php here, there is something wrong there as quotes should not be escaped in this query. Moreover, it should have no quotes. This is probably related with magic quotes configuration.

I'm happy with magic quotes feature removal in PHP6.

[dwpers]

Thank you for the wonderful mod, the what's new category works great, however, the notification is not visible. I have followed the instructions to log on after creating a new product with another account on another computer, but it does not show the notification.

I followed the instructions included in the download to a 't'. Any ideas/suggestions?

EDIT: Works now, however notification bubble isn't positioning properly. I'll try to work on it.