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[wooohanetworks Friend wooohanetworksJoin date: September 2008Posts: 1239Downloads:0Uploads:2 Thanks: 148 Thanked: 138 times in 41 posts]

#134245

There is bug in this module that not a lot will ever experience but some maybe, so time to expose it….:D

Problem:

15,000 VirtueMart products meet JA VM Productslide and the whole site collapses.
When the module is on, the frontend stays blank, no content is displayed no more. When disabling the module the site loads correctly again.

More Information:

15,000 just freshly uploaded Products in 608 categories are too much for JA VM Productslide.
The module recognizes all products as new products, what they are and tries to select all 15,000 as random content for the module, resulting in the mentioned blank frontend page, the site collapses, the admin still works.

Solution #1; Do not load that much into VM when you want the module to work as a “newest products” module.

Solution #2: Change the code…:D

Solution #3, my favorite: Throw away JA VM Productslide and use the hopefully newly developed JA VM Flowlist and not as “newest products” showcase

Solution #4: Wait for some time until all products are not more new for the module and turn it on…but what is when there all only old products…or when the module sees still all as new…:-* sweet module you!

Thanks, enjoy, have fun, be laaazy!!!:confused:

I just earned my 1,111st credit, soon I’ll have my developer membership! YEAH!

[mj1256 Friend mj1256Join date: June 2007Posts: 1473Downloads:10Uploads:35 Thanks: 84 Thanked: 225 times in 118 posts]

#274546

I’m not a VM master but i would never use VM for that many products, any one know what the limitations on number and products and cateories are for VM

[tonyg Friend tonygJoin date: June 2008Posts: 197Downloads:0Uploads:8 Thanks: 18 Thanked: 46 times in 27 posts]

#274567

Hi

I’m a big fan of VM and the answer to your question is there’s no limit on the number of products or categories. Having said that 608 categories with any Cart software won’t be very user friendly if not done really well, you need more like a directory.

[wooohanetworks Friend wooohanetworksJoin date: September 2008Posts: 1239Downloads:0Uploads:2 Thanks: 148 Thanked: 138 times in 41 posts]

#274618

Then I need a cart for Joomla that is simply better…when there is none, tell me with what cart I can use the templates I want from here or for Joomla in general, this is the balance I keep.

Tony, please tell me what you mean with “directory” in detail, thanks!

[tonyg Friend tonygJoin date: June 2008Posts: 197Downloads:0Uploads:8 Thanks: 18 Thanked: 46 times in 27 posts]

#274629

Hi Wooohanetworks

From my experienced with Vm, if you create 608 Top Level categories with the default product categories module you will undoubtedly end up with a very long list, which will require having to do far too much scrolling, this is why, with that amount of categories one needs to think of a way to avoid this. The mentioned of a directory; I was referring to how normally directories are formated, take Joomla’s Extension directory as an example. Personally I will look into using a different VM category module with a bit more flexibility’ start here http://extensions.joomla.org/component/option,com_mtree/task,viewlink/link_id,5087/Itemid,35/. Although I haven’t actually use this particular module it is worth checking it out, you can contact the developer first, he is very good with support, he knows VM inside out so you can explained your project and he will tell you if his module will be suitable.

[wooohanetworks Friend wooohanetworksJoin date: September 2008Posts: 1239Downloads:0Uploads:2 Thanks: 148 Thanked: 138 times in 41 posts]

#274636

<em>@tonyg 84995 wrote:</em><blockquote>Hi Wooohanetworks

From my experienced with Vm, if you create 608 Top Level categories with the default product categories module you will undoubtedly end up with a very long list, which will require having to do far too much scrolling, this is why, with that amount of categories one needs to think of a way to avoid this. The mentioned of a directory; I was referring to how normally directories are formated, take Joomla’s Extension directory as an example. Personally I will look into using a different VM category module with a bit more flexibility’ start here http://extensions.joomla.org/component/option,com_mtree/task,viewlink/link_id,5087/Itemid,35/. Although I haven’t actually use this particular module it is worth checking it out, you can contact the developer first, he is very good with support, he knows VM inside out so you can explained your project and he will tell you if his module will be suitable.</blockquote>

Thanks for your reply, Tony!

The case is, good to say, these are not 608 Top Categories but total categories, I think there are 20 Top categories that have a total of 600 subcategories.

Right, I was in his forum once and he replied to my support questions right away.

As for this I do not use CSVimproved as I work with a ERP that has a VM connector and does all the upload. The MySQL for example is now over 180 MB large and CSVi is ruled by the server limit for uploads, in my case 10MB and the CSV itself is already 15MB large. CSVI crashed all the time…

I know there are much larger CSVs like Affilinet CSVs can be up to 1GB of size but not only due that upload limitation for Joomla/VM via CSVi, also because the CSV from my wholesaler is formatted in another format than CSVi for VM, I do not use CSVi..

Next task will be to move the 15K products also to other shops that sell the same goods, this time via DB cloning to avoid the 24 hours of uploading to VM as VM is definitely slow in processing those data… This is a fact! ;):((

The “bug” is that the module wants to rock all 15,000 products at once, as all are new and there the site collapses…..:confused:
😀

[mj1256 Friend mj1256Join date: June 2007Posts: 1473Downloads:10Uploads:35 Thanks: 84 Thanked: 225 times in 118 posts]

#274725

so the module needs some logic to limit the number of products that “rock” through it

[wooohanetworks Friend wooohanetworksJoin date: September 2008Posts: 1239Downloads:0Uploads:2 Thanks: 148 Thanked: 138 times in 41 posts]

#274750

<em>@mj1256 85121 wrote:</em><blockquote>so the module needs some logic to limit the number of products that “rock” through it</blockquote>

Right, but for that this case is rarely happening, that too many products are just new, I think to disable it is the best way at all.

Like I said, I even rather want a modified JA Flowlist to display VM Products as I think the old slider modules look kind of outdated and new or large shops never have such feature. When you look at eBay for example, there is a slideshow on some countries eBay frontpages and those are kind of similar to what the Flowlist or other JA Modules can.

[Felipe Santos Friend Felipe SantosJoin date: September 2014Posts: 92Downloads:7Uploads:13 Thanks: 18 Thanked: 1 times in 1 posts]

#277673

Hi people i have the same issue.

1) how can we delimit the maximum of products on vmproduct Slider?

2) When i insert various categories, simply SOME categories doesn’t show, aleatory.

anyone have a light?

thank you

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