Need help on new products page and admin/customers/create account page

[tsui3276]

Hi,

I have 2 questions about the Oscmax 2.5 beta 3.

1. When I click on the arrow button at the What's New box at the home page, it displays the products by products_date_added in descending order. The older product is displayed first. I want to display the latest added products first. I tried to modified the catalog/index.php from line 283. But nothing happened.

The original code is:
if (isset($_GET['new_products']) && tep_not_null($_GET['new_products'])) {
$new_products_sort = "products_date_added,";
} else {
$new_products_sort = "";
}

Modified code is:
if (isset($_GET['new_products']) && tep_not_null($_GET['new_products'])) {
$new_products_sort = "products_date_added," . ($sort_order == 'asc');
} else {
$new_products_sort = "";
}

The code didn't generate any errors but the sort order is not working too. My code is not correct. Can someone help me on this to sort the product from the latest?

2. At the Admin/Customers/Create Account, how can I set the default country from the country drop down list. For example, I want to set Canada as the default country.

Thanks!

[tsui3276]

I found a way to fix the problem in question 1. The correct code is

if (isset($_GET['new_products']) && tep_not_null($_GET['new_products'])) {
$new_products_sort = "products_date_added DESC,";
} else {
$new_products_sort = "";
}

I think this a good idea you can change the catalog/index.php with the above code for the next release.

For my question 2, since it's use Ajax, I have no clue on setting the default country. Can somone help? Thanks!

[ridexbuilder]

2. At the Admin/Customers/Create Account, how can I set the default country from the country drop down list. For example, I want to set Canada as the default country.

http://wiki.oscdox.com/uk_store

[pgmarshall]

The sort order is a bug - my fault forgot to put 'desc' after to my new code!

If you find something like this please post it in the bugtracker ... It is more likely to get picked up and fixed ... (especially since you have found the error and posted the code to fix it!)

Anyway ... I have switched the sort order to display in descending order (ie. most recent new product first).

Bug Fix: r1152 - oscmax2 - Project Hosting on Google Code

Regards,

[tsui3276]

Thanks ridexbuilder,

http://wiki.oscdox.com/uk_store

The link is not suitable for OSCMAX 2.5 beta 3, the catalog/includes/languages/english.php is no longer exist. And it only shows how to set default country for the front end which means before login. I need to create account from the admin.

I think I need to modify the codes of admin/includes/modules/account_details.php but just have no clue of how to change it. I guess the below 2 lines need to be modified. Any suggestions?

$countries = tep_db_query("select countries_name, countries_iso_code_2, countries_iso_code_3 from " . TABLE_COUNTRIES . " where countries_id = '" . (int)$countries_id . "' and active = 1 order by countries_name");

$countries = tep_db_query("select countries_id, countries_name from " . TABLE_COUNTRIES . " where active = 1 order by countries_name");


Thanks!

[tsui3276]

Thanks ridexbuilder. The link is a bit outdated because it's not for oscmax 2.5 beta 3. I couldn't find catalog/includes/languages/english.php. Also the method is not for the admin/create_account.php. I need to create new account from the admin area and would like to set the default country to Canada.

I think I need to modify the codes at admin/includes/modules/account_details.php. But I just couldn't figure out how. Please help!

[ridexbuilder]

english.php is now core.php (I was doing the same yesterday)
Due to 2.5 being only beta status, us guys are still updating the wiki, as well as backfilling for 2.0.25
[UK/US switching is now inbuilt, so that particular wiki article needs revamped]

[tsui3276]

I've made the change on the core.php.

I change define ('DEFAULT_COUNTRY', '223'); to define ('DEFAULT_COUNTRY', '38'); and it works only when user tries to access the catalog/create_account.php. However, when user try to access the admin/create_account.php, the default is not set. The codes at admin/includes/modules/account_details.php needs to be modified but I don't know how.

[pgmarshall]

Add:

define('DEFAULT_COUNTRY', '38');

to

catalog/admin/includes/languages/english/core.php

(Could you also add this to the bugtracker as a bug report?)

Regards,

[ridexbuilder]

I can confirm PGM's solution.

Not a bug - just requires an update to the wiki.