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@nickon It looks like the module just works with thirty bees, not prestashop.

Generally people just guess. I have never seen a system where people import shipping costs from their drop shippers.

@datakick We tried a few ways of saving the url history, that proved problematic, especially changing back and forth several times. The problems and use cases we could not over come were things like changing a product name to another name. Eg, changing /computer to /old-computer, then adding a new product called /computer that would crash the system. You end up reserving urls and need a method to dump them. I am one of the people that thinks that there is very little value in the actual url, that changing them for the most part is pointless. I see what we rank for with thirty bees, half the keywords we rank for are not in the URLs.

See the issue with this becomes two-fold. The redirects for speed need to be in the htaccess file, up until a point. Say you have 100 redirects, htaccess is where they need to be, this will bypass the application totally and will be redirected on the server level, keeping things fast. But you hit a point, lets say 10k redirects, at that point they need to be in the database. Because loading the htaccess file is going to be time consuming and since it is really based off regex searches it will take even longer. For the best speed, everything needs to be in the httpd.conf (if you are using apache) but we cannot write to that location. This is something I have done quite a bit of testing on in the past couple of years and there really is not a one size fit all solution.

Hey, would you be willing to add the module to our module store? Its quick and free.

It will be, it is just a notice because of how the module is written, it needs some more variable checks added to it.

Turn error reporting off. It should never be on in production.

It will be in the next couple weeks, we are just trying to figure out how to handle the cookie issue.

Honestly, for the amount of time it will take to program in, there are more important bug fixes and features. This might be a great idea for a 3rd party module though.

We have considered this, but this can grow quickly and slow the site down.

@DavidP Ok, I have changed the code paypal generates to make it a pointer now.

Likely not, its just a javascript trick that google optimize does so the page does not flicker. You can disable the module and test tho. It means google trackers user by an id that your shop generates.

Since they are not logged into GH, GH only has the download by ip address. They are logged into our shop, but our shop does not save the download information.

Interesting. Piwik generally can hold more information than the shop itself. We set it up so we can see all the products a customer views by name, all purchases they make by products, ect.

Strange, do you have mysql pdo enabled in php?

I have a random question about this as well. I know people do not really like the idea of having to register on our store to download the free modules, but we require it anyhow. However, we don't actually track it with their account. Ie, if you download a module we don't know it was you that downloaded it. We use the build / download stats from GH to keep track. What does that open us up to?

Does that mean services like Piwik aren't included?

I would check the error logs on your server to see what errors are being picked up on the page loads / saves, that is likely the best way to solve the issue.

Because the databases have changes.

It sounds like you merged a PrestaShop and thirty bees shop, not migrated it.

What version of mysql are you running? And php.

My thought is export the data and then set the account where it is pending delete and the user cannot be log in again. As a side note, everyone in the EU is open to huge liability because of this law. If I use a system like this to get my data out of the shop, then file suit against your company because you run Apache and did not give me the Apache log entries, what is likely to happen? Am I likely to win?

@DRMasterChief I am getting most of my information from places like this, http://ec.europa.eu/justice/smedataprotect/index_en.htm which says " Let people access their data and give it to another company." Which to me by the wording means that people need to be able to export it, not that the shop as a whole needs to be able to export it. Having people able to export it makes it easier on the shop owner as well.

See @DRMasterChief your answer highlights the frustration of my problem with this. The law calls for easy to export data, I know this much. What you are recommending is not in accordance with the law, it is just what you want. When we develop this out we need to follow the law.

I am pretty sure this would be a breaking change if we made it.