RE: User Discount Problems

[mwatkins@lexmark.com]

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Interesting thought.  Any idea where the discount is actually calculated
and saved?  I would be willing to explore this further if I new where
minivend is handling this. (i.e. Order.pm?)

Mark Watkins

>I an interested in this also. As I suspected, you will need to get
deeper
>into how Minivend (as Mike says "magically") calculates the discount,
>subtotal, and total on both the basket and checkout.

>For all you know, Minivend may be copying the value in the return as a
>string (e.g. return($s * 0.9); to '$s * 0.9') and then recalculating it
on
>the checkout page - in your case '$s * $myper{""}' would evaluate to
>nothing. I'm not saying it is actually doing this, just that it could be
>doing somthing other that what you think it is doing.

>Christopher Thompson


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>
> I currently running minivend version 3.12beta6 and have been
> working on a way to give an individual a discount.  The userdb
> has a column added called getdiscount.
>
> The following code is from basket.html:
> [item-list]
> .
> .
>                 [if session logged_in]
>                         [if value getdiscount]
>                                 [calc]
>                                 $myper{""} += 1 - ([value
> getdiscount]/100);
>                                 return '';
>                                 [/calc]
>                                 [discount [item-code]]
>                                 return ($s * $myper{""});
>                                 [/discount]
>                                 <FONT COLOR="#FFFF80"
> SIZE=-1>User gets a
>              [value getdiscount]% discount!</FONT>
>                         [/if]
>                 [else]
>                     [discount [item-code]] return($s); [/discount]
>                 [/else]
>                 [/if]
>         </TD>
>         <TD [var HEADERBG] VALIGN=TOP ALIGN=RIGHT>
>                 <FONT COLOR="__HEADERTEXT__">[item-subtotal]
>                 </FONT>
>         </TD>
> </TR>
> [/item-list]
> The basket total shows up exactly correct.  If I change the
> number in userdb
> the total work fine.  HOWEVER, when I proceed to the checkout page.
> I get the following:
>           Durr-Walks in Beauty
>          Giclee                                       1 @ $320.00
>                   $320.00
>
>    Subtotal
>                         $0.00
>
>  Sales Tax
>                        $0.00
>             Shipping (includes $3  handling charge)
>          $6.93
>
>
>         TOTAL
>                      $6.93
>
> BUT if I put the following in for [discount]:
>
> [discount [item-code]]
> return ($s * 0.9);
> [/discount]
>
> Everything works like it should, checkout is fine the totals are fine!
> What am I missing it has been driving me nuts!
>
> Thanks in advance!
> Mark Watkins
>
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