techtech Posted January 14, 2014 Share Posted January 14, 2014 Using 1.5.6.1: I enjoy coding upgrades/fixes when using Prestashop however Prestashop (1.5.6.1) is lacking so many "easy user functions". I can imagine most people choose an ecommerce platform to get a site up quick, use easily add/remove options, and use lots of module/addon integrations. Prestashop has me digging into the code for every remove change needed on the cart side. Two in particular are Date of Birth or Gender fields. These are unnecessary for my site and I can imagine confusing to millions of Prestashop site users. I have a list of code tweaks now to the Prestashop software which I can imagine 1,000s have done which means 1,000s of hours of user coding has been necessary. Do people feel like Prestashop is advancing with quality or just "bells and whistles". Thanks for reading. Input is appreciated. I'm worried I need to go Magento again. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Burhan BVK Posted January 14, 2014 Share Posted January 14, 2014 Prestashop has been downloaded more than 2 million times, a 1000 does not make a significant user base, makes about 0.05%. And as far as I know gender and birthdate are not compulsory, customers can leave them blank. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
techtech Posted January 14, 2014 Author Share Posted January 14, 2014 I used "1,000" so people wouldn't fixate on a number of users editing .tpls. The real story is that novice to advanced users must "dive into" the code to customize about 20 possible default cart variables. I'm a little shocked Prestashop has not understood this for the cart experience. (Example: Apple computers still has Iphone users "keep" icons they want removed from their screens. Google wins the phone customization game by allowing all variables to be added/removed. Great user experience.) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Burhan BVK Posted January 14, 2014 Share Posted January 14, 2014 The thing is, every user does different edits. You used "1000" because you do not have any actual data, you just made it up. I don't think you can back that number. I doubt you can find even 100 people, willing to pay even one dollar for such an edit. Everybody thinks whatever they need is very important, that it is needed by thousands of people. The forum is filled with people posting more or less the same thing you wrote, each talking about a specific feature they wanted and how so many people would need it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
techtech Posted January 15, 2014 Author Share Posted January 15, 2014 I understand everyone using Prestashop is looking for edits of some form or another. No complaints about that. I was referring to defaults by Prestashop. If defaults are difficult to remove then Prestashop is basically stating they are to be there. This is lack of "creativity" and "easy customization". This is not "against" Prestashop, just that it's odd they have defaults that need hand coded changes. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Electronixbarn Posted January 15, 2014 Share Posted January 15, 2014 Techtech, I too want to get rid of the "birth day" field on the registration page. With identity theft running rampant I don't want to store this on my server and have to worry about it getting hacked and my customers getting screwed by some goons. I currently use the built-in "one-page checkout" and haven't been able to find the proper place to edit to remove the input fields for the "birthday". Can you please share how you fixed this on your site? I've already altered the authentication.tpl file in the themes directory and removed both instances of the birthday code as I saw in a previous thread, but the fields persist on the checkout page. SOS, HELP, Come on PrestaShop help us fight identity theft and make this easier to change. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
techtech Posted January 17, 2014 Author Share Posted January 17, 2014 @electronixbarn, Yes, DOB and other customer information like this might appear "NSA" like. Try commenting out large chunks of code then slowly narrowing it down to remove the DOB. (I don't do specific code changes here as so many templates and updates would be different in the future for users reading this.) If using windows, search in your folder structure for the words you want. Windows will look inside files for those words. Use " " around words to really narrow it down. Comment out those pages, test, then narrow the commenting focus until satisfied things run the way you wish. Best! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sharak Posted January 17, 2014 Share Posted January 17, 2014 I agree, Prestashop feels unfinished, especially when they release 1.5.6.0 Final version with so many bugs to fix. Many modules are outdated on my opinion. I expect at least 2-3 another releases before 1.5 can be described as final. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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