MVS, QPBPP, and File Feature, Conflicting RC version and contributions mashup

[Jeff Fillian]

For any of you who have been wrestling with oscommerce for any time I would expect that the title alone is enough to instill fear and dread. over the last week and a half I've

• worked with 2.2RC2a
• dropped back to 2.2MS2
• Installed File Feature V8
• Installed QPBPP
• Installed UPS Shipping module
• Found myself scratching my head on MVS
• loaded OSCMAX to see it if already had that stuff installed - No

Does anyone have experience getting all theses contributions working together in wonderful harmony. I am finding not only do they step on each other in pretty significant ways but they don't necessarily work on the same revision of oscommerce.

I've learned more about the cart in the last week than in the previous 3 years of deploying it. I'm tired of learning and need to deliver. Has anyone gotten these to work together or am I just nuts and barking up the wrong tree.

I need to provide

• a per order file upload
• allow for drop shipping to customers from disparate locations within the same order and calculate the UPS shipping correctly
• allow for a free text attribute for products
• provide numerous quantity price breaks and Oh by the way
• enforce a minimum quantity order for some orders.

Whew!

Thanks ever so much.

[MindTwist]

Only thing I can tell you is that QPBPP can easily be installed on a default OSCMAX installation (some minor problems because OSCMAX comes with SPPC which touches some parts of code QPBPP also touches, but no big deal).

I do not even know what contributions are MVS or File Feature, sorry.

[michael_s]

Yes, if you want help on the different contributions, you should post links to them so people know what you are referring to.

[Jeff Fillian]

mvs - osCommerce Community Add-Ons
QPBPP - osCommerce Community Add-Ons
File Upload Feature - osCommerce Community Add-Ons

[Jeff Fillian]

I'm not sure everyone needs to know but I found the MVS contribution, which I think was one of the most complex to incorporate a line at a time. Since I am working on a fresh copy of the cart I was able to drop the new files on top.

Multi Vendor Shipping - osCMax - osCommerce Maximized


I am going to work backwards from where I started the first time.
1) mvs
2) QPBPP
3) File Upload Attribute.

It seems to be going more smoothly this time.

[MindTwist]

No clue on MVS, so I do not know how many or what files it changes from default OSCMAX, but if you already have it modified to work with OSCMAX; go for it the first.

From what I see QPBPP and File Upload should not be a problem.