Re: text input on browse page?

[Larry Leszczynski <larryl@furph.com>]

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Hello Roddy -

> i'd even be satisfied with a text-input field on the shopping-basket
> page. but am told that's not possible either.

Repeat after me:  Anything is possible with MiniVend.  Anything is
possible with MiniVend.  Anything is possible with MiniVend.   :-)

I've got a client site that allows clothing items to be imprinted with
custom text, and a text input field on the basket page is supplied for
each item that is imprintable.  It's at: 

   http://www.brodysonline.com/cgi-bin/brodys

(Note: It loads pretty slow, but they *love* those FrontPage mouseover 
       buttons and won't let me change them - go figure...)


Steps:

1) In catalog.cfg:

   UseModifier color size imprinttext
                          ^^^^^^^^^^^
   This allows the "imprinttext" attribute to be attached to items in the
   cart and not be discarded when the cart is updated, etc.

2) In products.asc:

   Add a field called "imprintable".  Set it to "yes" for items that can
   be imprinted, leave blank otherwise.

3) In ord/basket.html, within the [item-list]:

   [item-accessories size]
   [item-accessories color]
   [if-field imprintable]
      Imprint: <input type=text name=[modifier-name imprinttext]
                                value="
                        [perl interpolate=1]
                           my $value = q{[item-modifier imprinttext]};
                           $value =~ s/"/&quot;/g;
                           $value;
                        [/perl]
                                      ">
   [/if-field]

   The whole [if-field]...[/if-field] is actually on one line of text, I
   split it up here for clarity.  The extra [perl] bit in the the value
   part allows for the user to type quotation marks within the specified
   text.  I suppose you could also filter out invalid chars, trim to a max
   length, etc.  I suppose that [perl] tag could actually be a [calc] for 
   sake of speed, now that I think about it...

4) In ord/checkout.html, ord/receipt.html, ord/report.html, within the
   [item-list]:

   [if-modifier color]
      ([item-accessories color, display])
   [/if-modifier]
   [if-modifier size]
      ([item-accessories size, display])
   [/if-modifier]
   [if-modifier imprinttext]
      (Imprint: <b>[item-modifier imprinttext]</b>)
   [/if-modifier]




Larry Leszczynski
larryl@furph.com
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