[josh401]

Got a little sidetracked. Putting final touches on tonight. Will send you an email sometime tomorrow.

Thanks!

[josh401]

Super Fantastic!

Have you ever noticed the closer you get to finishing code.. the more crap you realize you have left to complete? It’s like your mind skips over all the little stuff when you’re nearing the finish line.

Be back very soon…

[josh401]

Hello again, my friend!

– I was hoping you would feel that way!

It’s almost done. Just a few more tweaks and tests.

I think by Saturday.. I will have something final for you. Perhaps we can communicate via email and explore our options together?

[josh401]

Thanks!

I had already come across that in my travels. BBPress is great, I’m sure. But, adding more ‘bulk’ in order to achieve this feature was very undesirable by the client. However, thank you very much for the suggestion!

Well, I think you guys might be interested in what I have developed.

Here are a few screenshots: (sorry, I’m excited to show this off

I would love to hear some feedback… and perhaps even get my hands on a few of your beta testers

[josh401]

That makes complete sense. Sheesh… backwards compatibility… makes my head hurt just thinking about it!

Well, I’m happy! The emails are now perfect… so I’m gonna leave ‘well enough’ alone. I mean, it works perfectly as it stands… I was just going for some extreme output of the email (basically an email template with all the bells and whistles).

Perhaps an option to use an external email template?? It could use placeholders in the document.. that then get replaced with the actual email tags. (I know, I know… more work… I’ll stop thinking out loud now

Lastly.. the licensing we were discussing on the other thread is now working. Man, this thing is awesome!! Your plugin is amazing.. and the ability to tweak it further makes it an ace in my pocket!

I think the wife is contemplating killing me if I don’t take a break from the computer. So, I’m gonna take a couple of days, and give to the family. Afterwards, I’d like to make the licensing system a plugin.. and perhaps you could include it in you addons section

Take care.. and I’ll catch you again soon!

[josh401]

Yup! That’s exactly what I did to get the email output how I wanted.

BUT… if you switch over to ‘visual’ and back to ‘text’… you lose much of the formatting.

This has been a HUGE burden for me with my plugin, Ultimate Tinymce.

Are you using the wp_editor() function to create the tinymce textarea?

Which filters are you using on the output?

(If you wanna point me to a file.. I’ll take a look)

[josh401]

Well, that one sends it as plain text. That option works dandy!

However, the option to send email as HTML from the ’email settings’ page, seems a little odd to me. It’s adding break tags everywhere, and the resulting email has a lot of extra white space.

I wonder if it is a filter the plugin applies to the content of the email?

After successive test emails to myself, I do have the final output how I like. But if I use actual HTML tags.. it blows it up with extra white space.

For example.. if I insert:

<h2>Thank You!</h2>

<p>Sentence One</p>

<p>Sentence Two</p>

The html markup of the email is like so:

h2>Thank You!</h2><br />

<p>Sentence One</p><br />

<p>Sentence Two</p><br />

Which ends up with something like this (can’t get the forum to duplicate the extra white space):

Thank you!



[imaginary space]



Sentence One



[imaginary space]



Sentence Two

[josh401]

Okay, it works great in version 6.9.9.1.

One request… it would be a HUGE timesaver if there were a way to send a test email. You could use the admin email account as the “To:”.. and the content as the subject. (Maybe use dummy variables).

I’m trying to tweak out the email sent.. but the option of HTML or Plain Text is not playing nicely. There is a LOT of extra white space in the email that is sent.

In order to test, I have to go through an entire purchase on my sandbox. It would be AWESOME to have a button to send a test email.

You guys freakin ROCK!!

[josh401]

Got it. Thank you!

You are FANTASTIC!! If there is anywhere I can go to vote, rate, testify… please let me know!

[josh401]

Is this still the case? Does the “Product Specific Instructions” area not accept email tags?

For example, I have many different digital download items. One of them will require activation. In the purchase email, I would like to include the activation details (trans id, email, serial number, etc). But, I don’t want the buyers of my other (non license) products to also receive the license instructions.

Just one measly persons opinion… but it seems counter-intuitive to not accept email tags in this section. Is there a particular reason for this logic?

If this is the case, is there a simple way I can add this into the plugin?

Thank you, kindly!!

[josh401]

Got it! Thank you! I will let you know as I near closer to that step.

I’m still going over in my head the best approach to plugin implementation. But, having an option to customize the database entry would certainly solve that issue.

I’ll post back soon!

[josh401]

Thanks again for your time with all this!

Well, I only found one program which generates keycodes. I’m looking to generate keycodes in batches of 1000. The program uses this format for keycodes xxxx-xxxx-xxxx-xxxx. So.. splitting at the hypen gives me a headache just thinking about it.

Then… what if a user where to include hypens in their product name, like My Product - Variant One. This would create issues.

I’m thinking it will be better to use the serial key in it’s entirety, and then trim() it’s whitespace. This will ensure the code is immune to variations.

….. Making progress

[josh401]

Got it. Thank you. I didn’t see it specifically mentioned in that post, so I figured I’d ask to make sure I didn’t break something along the way.

One last question, and I believe I’ll have a working version. Very exciting!!

The serial key which gets stored in the database gets preceded with the item name.

Thus, if a serial key of 001 gets pulled from the options; for a product named Product 1; the valued stored in the db is Product 1 - 001.

While this is a nice feature, I would prefer just storing the serial key that is entered into the options; without being preceded by the product name.

Is there a hook or filter? Or would it require direct edits to a core file? If so, which one please?

Again, Thank you!!

[josh401]

You are absolutely right. My approach was all wrong.

I have a much clearer approach now.

One question:

Does each serial key get removed from the available pool of keys (in the options menu) once it has been used in a successful purchase?

[josh401]

Well, you might be a step ahead of me.

I see all relevant info is stored in the wp_eStore_customer_tbl table (email, license key, trans id, etc.).

However, I’d like to use the 3-rd party script (working beautifully, thank you) to process the info and store it into a new secure database; solely for handling licenses.

Everything is working nicely so far, except one thing:

1. I create the licenses for the product.

2. I am able to send it in the buyer email via {serial_key} tag.

Now, can I also pass this key to the PayPal IPN info? I don’t see it being added in the returned $_POST data.

Thank you, so much!

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