[Pro] Add Quantity to cart Mals Ecom with php

SteveB · March 10, 2010, 11:51am

Hi All,

I’ve been having a bit of trouble getting a quantity field to add the quantity to the cart on mals.

I’m not using any of the Shopping actions as the products details are all held on the server in a couple of databases and are downloded to the webpage using a combination of php, MySQL and the php block action to build the table of products on the page. The quantity field is in this block with the Name field set to “myQty” and the Value field to “$myQty”.

The product details, price, return url etc. are added to the cart via the url to the cart, each product has it’s own unique data which is set up in a “Buy” link via php as in this example:

<A HREF='http://ww5.aitsafe.com/cf/add.cfm?userid=00000000&product=$myPartnumber%20$myDescription&qty=$myQty&discountpr=$myDiscprmat&units=$myWeight&return=$return' TITLE='Add to Order - $myPartnumber $myDescription $myQty'> Buy </A>

The page with the test set-up is here:

http://www.cotswoldengineeringsupplies.co.uk/2010-dev/Test_Discount/testproductpage.php?item=WDHCZP&inthere=&line=JCS%20Hose%20and%20P%20Clips

On Product and Section pages and only these menu sections/items have been set up to work on the pages:
JCS Clips, Hydraulic Adaptors (up to Metric Male > Locknut) Gates Hose, Gates Hydraulic (up to & incl Megacrimp Flat Face).

These pages also test the discount structure that you can see on the page (under List Price & Quantity Disc).

If you input 10 into the qualtity colunm and press the buy button, only 1 will be added to the Shopping Cart.

Try as I might, I can’t seem to get it to work correctly if at all. It probably is something simple, but at the moment my brain doesn’t work in simple mode, (no chance for complex then!).

Any suggestions gratefully received.

Best wishes,

Steve.

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SteveB · March 10, 2010, 4:10pm

Hi,

Me again!

Still can’t get this to work…

All I want to do is get the quantity input in the browser to attach to the “Buy” url link to mal’s shopping cart, so that it is included with the other variables.

At the moment unless I set the quantity variable to 1 in the php block action it doesn’t send anything to the cart because the variable qty is empty. You can change the quantity but it doesn’t update on the link.

I need this to work so that customers can input the quantity they want before they press the “Buy” link.

Any thoughts gratefully received…

Thanks in anticipation.

Steve.

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Tim3 · March 10, 2010, 8:47pm

Hi Steve,
There are a couple of things that are missing here for this to work
properly;

The text link has no way of getting to the quantity value the user
has entered for the product without first submitting the page. You
‘could’ get the figure using javascript but that would be at best a
hack and would be prone to failure.
For GET requests like text based buy links you need to make sure
that your data is correctly encoded. This means using urlencode in PHP
to make sure the spaces and any other special characters are all
encoded before you use the data.

Having said all of this I would recommend that you swap your buy text
links for forms. They are just as easy to set up as text links, are a
bit easier to read (and therefore debug) and can use the user
specified values for the product quantities.
Have a look at the following example HTML page. It should give you an
idea of how to lay out your forms.
http://www.freewayactions.com/code/?f=mals-example.html

Regards,
Tim.

On 10 Mar 2010, at 16:10, SteveB wrote:

All I want to do is get the quantity input in the browser to attach
to the “Buy” url link to mal’s shopping cart, so that it is included
with the other variables.

At the moment unless I set the quantity variable to 1 in the php
block action it doesn’t send anything to the cart because the
variable qty is empty. You can change the quantity but it doesn’t
update on the link.

I need this to work so that customers can input the quantity they
want before they press the “Buy” link.

Any thoughts gratefully received…

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chuckamuck · March 10, 2010, 10:16pm

Holy frejole! Freeway.com code store? Awsome!

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waltd · March 10, 2010, 10:24pm

Tim Plumb FTW!

Walter

On Mar 10, 2010, at 5:16 PM, chuckamuck wrote:

Holy frejole! Freeway.com code store? Awsome!

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Tim3 · March 10, 2010, 10:40pm

I initially read that as WTF!
I’m uncertain which of these meanings is correct in this context;

… although I suspect it’s ‘Feel the Wind’!

The code store started off as this simple PHP code listing script;
http://www.freewayactions.com/code/?f=phpsourcecodelister.php

As I’ve had time to extend it I’ve added the features that I’ve found
useful for myself (downloads, url shrinking and print style sheets)
and have a to-do list as long as my arm of things that I can learn
about while tinkering with it.
My grandfather was an engineer and although he didn’t like driving
much he was never happier than when he was pulling his car to bits.
Regards,
Tim.

On 10 Mar 2010, at 22:24, Walter Lee Davis wrote:

Tim Plumb FTW!

Walter

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waltd · March 10, 2010, 10:45pm

For The Win. Meaning, “Advantage, Mr. Plumb.”

Walter

On Mar 10, 2010, at 5:40 PM, Tim Plumb wrote:

I initially read that as WTF!
I’m uncertain which of these meanings is correct in this context;
FTW - Definition by AcronymFinder
… although I suspect it’s ‘Feel the Wind’!

The code store started off as this simple PHP code listing script;
http://www.freewayactions.com/code/?f=phpsourcecodelister.php

As I’ve had time to extend it I’ve added the features that I’ve
found useful for myself (downloads, url shrinking and print style
sheets) and have a to-do list as long as my arm of things that I can
learn about while tinkering with it.
My grandfather was an engineer and although he didn’t like driving
much he was never happier than when he was pulling his car to
bits.
Regards,
Tim.

On 10 Mar 2010, at 22:24, Walter Lee Davis wrote:

Tim Plumb FTW!

Walter

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SteveB · March 11, 2010, 11:27am

Hi Tim,
I like the freewayaction.com code page, another resource!
Thanks for the info and your thoughts. I was leaning to that
conclusion to use forms.
I replaced the Buy link, which was a mark-up item, with all the form
details in the same mark-up item, replacing the “hard wired” bits with
php variables.
A bit of tweaking with some of the variables to take out the url
encoding and also enclose the php variables in single quotes, all now
works!
Just need to find out the best way to centre the form bits in the mark-
up item, and to style them as I want…
You can see the result here:
<http://www.cotswoldengineeringsupplies.co.uk/2010-dev/Test_Discount/testproductpage.php?item=WDHCZP&inthere=&line=JCS%20Hose%20and%20P%20Clips

Best Wishes,
Steve.

On 10 Mar 2010, at 20:47, Tim Plumb wrote:

Hi Steve,
There are a couple of things that are missing here for this to work
properly;

The text link has no way of getting to the quantity value the
user has entered for the product without first submitting the page.
You ‘could’ get the figure using javascript but that would be at
best a hack and would be prone to failure.

For GET requests like text based buy links you need to make sure
that your data is correctly encoded. This means using urlencode in
PHP to make sure the spaces and any other special characters are all
encoded before you use the data.

Having said all of this I would recommend that you swap your buy
text links for forms. They are just as easy to set up as text links,
are a bit easier to read (and therefore debug) and can use the user
specified values for the product quantities.
Have a look at the following example HTML page. It should give you
an idea of how to lay out your forms.
http://www.freewayactions.com/code/?f=mals-example.html

Regards,
Tim.

On 10 Mar 2010, at 16:10, SteveB wrote:

All I want to do is get the quantity input in the browser to attach
to the “Buy” url link to mal’s shopping cart, so that it is
included with the other variables.

At the moment unless I set the quantity variable to 1 in the php
block action it doesn’t send anything to the cart because the
variable qty is empty. You can change the quantity but it doesn’t
update on the link.

I need this to work so that customers can input the quantity they
want before they press the “Buy” link.

Any thoughts gratefully received…

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