Ubercart

The uc_multibuy.install file should be deleted from the tarball - it contains routesearch_install() and routesearch_uninstall(), which aren't part of this module.

Hi there,

Firstly thanks for a great module - invaluable for what I'm doing.

With the release of Ubercart 5.x-1.3, your module doesn't work anymore, even when reapplying the patch.

In the new version of Ubercart, the Catalog display type is missing, and a "View Grid" checkbox has been introduced.

If you get round to adapting your module, that would be great!

Thanks...

Hi Dubs,

I've got it working on 1.3, but I think I manually applied the patch (because I'm using several other patches as well). There are instructions for manually applying patches on drupal.org. If you patch it successfully (on clean uc_catalog.module v1.3 code) could you generate and post an updated patch here?

Hi Oliver,

I've got it working too - I did not apply the patch correctly last time (using GNU32 tools) but it's fine now!

Thanks again, and here is the uc_catalog file for 1.3.

Dubs

Hey,

Great module. Works great with the patch. I was wondering is there anyway to make the quantity field into a checkbox (so customers can only purchase one of each product)?

But of course fabulous is not *quite* good enough . . I've spent half a day trying to rearrange the elements in the tapir table . . How would I output my table as:

[quantity=0] [weight] [sell_price] [title] ?

Many thanks for this heretofore-only-dreamed-of functionality.

#5: Providing an option to make the quantity field into a checkbox is a great idea and would be fairly easy to implement. However I'm pressed for time so can't afford to do this unless someone wants to fund it!

#6: Is [quantity=0] [weight] [sell_price] [title] the order you'd like columns to appear in a multibuy table layout?

Update: And are you using 5.x or 6.x?

I don't know if I'm simply kludging a solution or not, but put in a support request here.

Your module has already resolved several issues, particularly when combined with complicated requirements and a mix of product attributes, so thank you.

#6: Is [quantity=0] [weight] [sell_price] [title] the order you'd like columns to appear in a multibuy table layout?

I'm using D6 with UC2. I sell soap. I want my users to see:

col1 | col2 | col3 | col4
[ 0] 4 oz. bars, $5.95 each. Product Name
[ 0] 4 oz. bars, $5.95 each. Product Name
[ 0] 5 oz. bars, $6.95 each. Product Name
--------------------

[ADD ALL TO ORDER]

Is there any documentation for this contrib? A user guide?

Great contribution! Seriously-this is a life saver!! (And in this economy, proving to be a job-saver as well!)

I have a couple quick questions:

1. I've created a donation product via uc_donation, but I haven't been able to figure out how to add the donation product to the multi-buy display. In the donation content type, there isn't an option for choosing a catalog. Any ideas?

2. I don't need the product title to link back to it's node - how would I go about disabling the link?

Thanks for the help!!

Hi Melanie,

I don't remember having any trouble getting donation products to display in the catalog, I don't remember but it might be necessary to manually add the donation content type to the list of content types the catalog vocabulary can use.

I don't think there's an option to make the title not a link, wouldn't take much to make this an option but I don't have time to look at it now unless someone wants to pay me I'm afraid as I'm very busy with other work (paid, university, NFP stuff, children, etc!)

[In reply to a PM asking about teasers not working]: Regarding product teasers, it's been so long since I looked at that that I can't remember how it works, but I seem to remember it might have been a bit of a fudge to get it to work with a custom teaser cck field rather than the one generated by Drupal. Are you using Drupal 5 or 6?

Glad to hear this module is so useful to you! Donations welcome

The new version, 6.x-2.2, fixes a compatibility issue with UC-6.x-2.x-rc3. This updates multi-buy to work with the modified theme_uc_product_price method in rc3 and resolves the error message about invalid operands on line 85 of uc_price.inc when viewing "multi-buy list format" catalogue pages.

This patch does three things:

• Fix "call-by-reference deprecated" warnings,
• adds a default quantity box, and
• adds a checkbox for "view cart after add".

The changes are provided as individual patches in the Issue Tracker. The patch attached here is for convenience sake, putting all three together.

Here's a patch from our team member, Aaron Wolfe.

The patch removes the required setting for attributes (in our case, the description) and amount only on the multibuy form. It checks to make sure that both values exist for an item if either value does. This allows these values to remain required in other places like checkout and cart update where they are necessary.

Thanks,
LJ

On line 276, the call to uc_attribute_form_alter must be changed to reference uc_attribute_uc_form_alter

garethsprice - Just wanted to clarify how you got this to work with ubercart-6.x-2.0...

I am assuming that you are using

ubercart-6.x-2.0
current version of Multi-buy
old patch to for new uc_catalog files

I tried this and it isn't working for me. The patch didn't seem to work for the new version of ubercart.

I would appreciate any advice.

Thanks

First I must say that this is a great tool for shopping carts. Especially for wholesale, so thank you in advance to anyone who is contributing to this.

I opened /module/ubercart/uc_catalog/uc_catalog.module

I copy and pasted the code on the patch section into this file and saved it.

I also installed uc_multibuy into my modules folder then enabled it in my modules. Everything has green and says Multi-buy is apparently on.

I navigate to /admin/store/settings/catalog/edit/multibuy and make sure that everything is checked.

However I'm not really sure where the fields are supposed to show up. I'm assuming they normally are part of the attributes side of things but I'm not seeing them. Any help would be appreciated enormously.

I've spoken with Oliver who created this module. He can get it updated for Ubercart 2.0 for a fee of 260AU. Anyone want to take up a collection to help pay for it? Message me if so, I can pay for a majority.

Any takers yet on the contributions? I will donate a bit.

$237 (I think)

http://www.x-rates.com/calculator.html

I will contribute.

I have private messaged the two posters above. I will collect all I can and then send to Oliver. He said he could have it done in within 2 weeks.

I have been looking to see if it will work with UC Node Checkout and I don't think it will. So, it will not work for my current use-case. Sorry but I can't fund currently.

Is there any update on this? I've tried installing multibuy 6x2.2 with Ubercart 6x2.2 and patching. It's half working. My multibuy product grid doesn't include all the information it should (no quantity, no product teasers).

Multi-Buy appears to be broken in all Ubercart versions above 2 rc3. Oliver would upgrade it but I couldn't afford it without more contribution help.

working on is complete...and this year, it's something that could benefit from some multi-buy parts, but Multi-Buy alone won't work for the client.

...tho...maybe I can contact Oliver and see if he can help; I ~can~ pay a bounty on my current project, and that may provide folks with something they could use too...etc. etc.

I'll ping Oliver; hopefully, this'll all cascade together nicely into a symphonic harmony (vs. a cacophony of insanity).

Thanks for your replies. Great, let's hope we get somewhere with this, the module would be really useful for me. I already sent a message to Oliver, before you guys replied, to ask what the status was, whether he could work on it and how much he'd ask for. Happy to contribute btw.

Hi all,

I'm glad so many people have found this module so useful (would be nice if something like this makes it into core).

I've offered to upgrade MultiBuy to work with the latest version of Ubercart (now 6.x-2.2) for a fee (as I'm no longer using it and I'm very busy with other paid and volunteer work). My hourly rate is AU$90, I estimate the job would take no more than 4 hours at most and more likely 2 hours. I can offer a fixed price of AU$270 (3 hours) or charge for the number of hours it takes with a limit at 4 hours. I'd ask for 50% upfront before beginning work. I accept payment through PayPal, or if you happen to live in Australia then I accept direct bank deposit.

Cheers,
Oliver

OK, I can donate 150 USD towards this. Can others make up the rest?
Also Oliver, how quickly would you be able to get it done?

I can give $50 USD. AU$270 is ~$240 USD for those who need to know.

Can anyone make up the remaining 40 USD?
Oliver, assuming we get the money together, when would you be able to work on this?

I could donate 40$ but I need know if it feets my needs... I've performed my product list with Views (because then I can show other fields like weigth, taxonomy terms, stock level, etc.). In other words, I don't use the official catalog module, and I don't know if this module is only a patch of it or it is suitable for Views editing...

Regards

calbasi, I don't think the module integrates with views, though that would be nice
Exactly which fields do you need to be able to add to your form?

I don't know for sure. At he moment, stock level and weight (and probably I'll try to put there a price/kg). But I like Views way to make my catalog because I can always edit the "view", and uc_catalog module (and this, I think) are "not configurable" modules... I don't like it (or, better, it don't feet my needs ).

A multibuy module is a pretty addon, and maybe I could "forget" to include stock level, but weight is necessary for me... And for this reason I had thought to get the "fast way" through AJAX cart and not through multibuy module... But I'm still working on it

Regards,

Joan

We could do the remaining $40. Oliver originally did a lot of this work for one of our projects. It's time for an upgrade, so we'll need the patch soon.

Thanks,
Leila

Good! I've send a message to Oliver to ask when he'll have time to work on it.

Haven't tried the older version of multibuy (just getting my first drupal site online) but this kind of thing would be damned handy for my site.

What would make it really perfect would be views integration, because then we'd be able to do things like bring up "may we suggest..." related products multibuy forms.

Right now I could see a way to do it using a grievous views hack -- 3 views; the first sets up the form but doesn't close it, the second mungs the fields to be bare amount textfields or checkboxes, and the third closes the form. But much better would be a views module that does the encapsulation and also provides the textfield/checkbox field type.

Hi all,

Yes, I've always wished Ubercart had used views to present their catalog in the first place! The multibuy module doesn't have Views integration. I haven't developed much for Views (only little hacks here and there), but I think the way it would be done with Views 2 (for regular or multibuy type catalog pages) would be to create a Views style. Which I definitely don't have time for right now.

I can begin work on the update some time in the next couple of days and have it done by Monday 11th Jan if half the payment is deposited into my paypal account (oliver@e-geek.com.au) in the next couple of days. Assuming we're going with the fixed AU$270 price this is AU$135.

Thanks,
Oliver

I will send Oliver my $50 once everyone else can confirm they are sending. This is going to be a mess if a bunch of us send him money, but hopefully we can get it organized.

I hadn't put myself down for a definite amount, but just sent him US$25.00

I've sent $AU115 to Oliver. So we've now paid just over 50% of overall fee (25 USD is 27 AUD).

Ok Great! I will wait to send my $50 USD until its finished then.

Hi all,
Thanks very much for your contributions, will get started on it and hopefully finish it today!
Cheers,
Oliver

Thanks for the contribution. Not sure what happened but it's reported as US$23.85 in my paypal account, which is just over AU$25. Is that what it says on your end?

If it is my contribution you are talking about, I sent you US$25.

You probably received less because of PayPal fees, currency conversions etc.

R

I'm having a lot of issues setting up the multi-buy module in drupal 5 with ubercart 1.x. But I'm willing to pay anyone that can help as soon as possible, preferably in the next couple of hours. I'm in the US,(Arizona) so if anyone can help me out, just PM today and I can pay you today.

Hi all,

Please find attached version 6.x-2.3 for UC 6.x-2.2.

The patch at http://www.ubercart.org/issue/4936/a_hook_catalog_renderers#comment-48652 is also updated for UC 6.x-2.2, there are no functional changes to it so if you've already applied it manually then it should be fine.

Of course, let me know if there are any issues.

Thanks again to all those who have chipped in or are chipping in for this upgrade!
Oliver

Oliver,

It would be extremely helpful if you could take the time to document exactly how multi-buy should be configured, and what the options do.

It took me 30 of random flailing (for example) to determine that you needed to enable the buy-it-now *button* in catalog settings to get the quantity fields to appear.

Also, there appears to be a bug with the multi-buy list table option. I got everything working on grid view, then switched to list view -- It just displays a list of the products, with no quantity fields.

I'm just getting a list of products for the list table display too. It's the same problem I was having before Oliver's update, I thought it was due to version incompatibility, but the problem is still there.