Like said the update 1.8 is on WordPress.org now.
Nothing big got changed since my last post, just a few bug fixes and improvements.
Im working on the new website currently, it has a few cool features.
We’ve now three new languages: French, Turkish and Russian.
The first two are almost finished (for 1.7) and russion is really far too.
Many thanks to Rémy Perona (french), Demokrasi (Turkish) and Murat Akhmetov (russian)!
They’ll get a gift at modules release for sure.
As alway report bugs and say what you think 🙂
feryaz
easyReservations 1.8 – 15.04.2012
- Three new languages: France, Russian and Turkish!
- Forms
- New validation:
- Errors are displayed below the incorrect field/select
- Error checking at sending
- Box above form as overview of errors
- Included min/max nights/persons in live validation
- Name, eMail and Custom fields gets checked for emptyness before sending
- Better name validation
- Focus field on click on the error
- Select title and message of error box
- Custom fields get refilled like other fields
- Show price width & no other content
- Show price new option before amount text [show_price before=””]
- Name function for room numbers
- Export
- .csv and .xls use the same function
- No errors with .csv files
- Custom fields
- Reserved
- Roomnumber
- Improvements
- Custom prices can be per persons and night now (price*persons*nights)
- Improved Module Installation alot
- Set text after succesfull edit in userCP
- Custom prices in email
- Trash reservation from edit
- Rewrote email generation script
- New infomations in emails: paid, reserved ago, custom prices
- Update notifier
- File loading
- Day and Month names everywhere translatable with just one string each
- Calendar show posted room instead of default room after widget or other redirect
- Filter table improved and name included
- Overview selection stays at change overviews date/days
- Security improvements
- Bugs fixed
- Editlink
- Many email releated bugs
- Calendar selection
- Offer discounts
- The first unavailable day from filters can be depature day now
- Date unavailability
- Display price zero
- Custom prices at view reservation
One bug:
Custom forms not displayed in page/post. Even that it seems that custom forms are saved (e.g. single-room) they are not displayed in page/post with shortcode [easy_form single-room style=”none” submit=”Reservation successfull send” price=”1″] instead being displayed always the standard form.
fixes, thanks 🙂
It’s possible to have a checkbox or something on settings page to set ‘show_in_menu’ value to true, fom rooms (/lib/fuctions/both.php line 30).
Or maybe you know an override funtions in my theme functions.php for that.
I need to have it on the menu, but with updates, I lost the configuration.
Thanks!
Ill do. For what do you need it?
Beacuse I have lot of categories and subcategories, and that way you can filter and so on.
Also, it’s possible that the calendar (easy_calendar) doesn’t work good on 1.8?
When I select a date in the future, no matter which, it says “The arrival date has to be in future” and “At least 1 nights in *** Depature before arrival” on the date fields of the form.
Link to page please.
http://ideas-factory.com.ar/projects/draftba/?easy-rooms=armenia-2100&lang=en
Another small bug:
I’ve noticed that the datepickers are not shown in sidebar widget form for other pages than those that are containing a reservation form. I know that calendar could be used but doesn’t look so good for a 200px wide sidebar. Not a big deal however.
Currency converter:
http://www.doctort.org/adam/general/currency-calculation-in-php.html
I’ve found this little piece of php script that I can use to display the rooms price in two currencies in template files for the custom field “reservations_groundprice”.
Would be interesting to implement it only for [show_price] such way to have the price shown in an international currency like euro or usd, that is useful for paypal payments, but also in a local currency. What do you think ?
If I’ll have some time in the next period I could setup I demo website having nice design (custom theme), various room types, various and stylized forms, etc. It’s ok for you ?
Sorry for late answer, was away the last day.
Bug is fixed.
I have a list of things that I want to make somewhen, but need more inputs and needs of users to even start. Thats one of em 😉
The problem that I have are the different rates in the systems. Yahoo != Paypal != Real and so on.
To be honest I dont have any clues how multiple currencys get used in real. The BurgerKing here just change his Dollar price once per week for example.
I ended that the only real working way is that the user can define the exchange rate on its own. But that would be alot of work. Or choosing from which source it should come, but how many users know the differences if even I dont?
Next point is how should the script know which currency should get displayed to the user? Maybe i can regognize where he maybe comes from. Or showing multiple currencys at once?
Not one of the options feels right for me.
Of couse you can and I would use it if you allow me, but I want to do one as well in about two-three monthes. With automaticly restore and maybe multiple blogs ect. To train my skills on these topics.
For what do you want to do it?
Greetings feryaz
Regarding the currency converter my opinion is that should be something like this: in easyreservations settings: select main currency (EUR or USD) à select local currency (optional, only informal) and a simple function in php (or maybe in js) to display both values (thing that I did with the method above mentioned for the template files). The rate could be taken from google or yahoo api and implementation could be only in forms [show_price] field and maybe in body e-mails. I don’t see the point to display the second currency all over the plugin (reservations, resources, offers) as should be only informal for customer.
I’m interested to promote wordpress solutions among hospitality businesses (hotels, guesthouses, B&B) as I saw a lot of weak websites in this field and an integrated solution in wordpress (nice custom theme, seo optimization services and affordable self booking module) would be I nice thing to do in order to make them switch to a wordpress website.
As long you dont sell my work as yours or resell the modules later on im more as okay with it 🙂
Dont expect such a function in the next updates, there are plenyt of more important things to do. But its on my list for a long time and I want to do it sometime.
Of course that I will not sell your product, I’ll just encourage my customers to use it and to buy paid modules if fit their needs. I totally understand the concept of free plugins and GPL licence.
OK, I understand that are other things to do. First of all I think that you should reach a stable and fully functional (no bugs) version of your plugin and then to release the paid modules.
Completly bug free is unfortunatly impossible, there isnt a software without a bug in this world.
The next update will be 2.0. This surprise myself, cause i planed to go far > 1.10. But i managed to realize the more as big function that should form 2.0 just now. Was planned for end of the year 🙂 really proud.
The plan is to release a beta of it in the middle of next week and only doing bug fixing for maybe a week. In this time I’ll try to finish the new website and new documentation. And with the release of 2.0 the first one or two modules get released for testing the new websit and the paypal script. With 2.1 or even before the other modules get released.
My only problem is how to tell the customers that the payment way needs to get tested too without fearing them to lose their money, which is impossible due to paypal. The worsest thing that can happen is that they dont get an email or the account creation fails.
Im really exited 🙂
can’t wait for this 2.0 😀
is beta for everyone ?
yes, but it will be the last beta available for all 🙂