RE: A couple of questions :) (or translated ACK! HELP)

["Thompson-Jordan" <Thompson-Jordan@mindspring.com>]

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> Actually its going very well I have nearly gotten the store ready for
> show! (THANKS MIKE!!!!!)
>
> But I do have a couple of questions I hope the collective body of
> experince here might lend me a hand with.
>
> 1.  I want to do multible checkout pages, one to get the information
> for the shipping and billing, then go to a page that shows the latest
> calculation of the cart with the correct taxes and shipping.  I
> modified the original checkout.html by adding and changing a few
> things.
>
> I changed the line
>
> <B><INPUT TYPE=submit NAME=mv_todo VALUE="[L]Place
> Order![/L]"></B>
>
> TO
>
> <B><INPUT TYPE=submit NAME=mv_todo VALUE="Next"></B>
>
> and also changed the set function above
>
> [set Next]
> mv_todo=submit
> mv_successpage=ord/finalpage
> mv_nextpage=ord/finalpage
> mv_checkout=ord/finalpage
> [/set]
>
> Now I started out with just mv_successpage and added the others
> which didn't change anything.  I also tried to change the name of
> the button to Review Order, however this would just give an error.
>
> What happens with this is that each time I click Next it just reloads
> the current page.  I know I am missing something, perhaps
> something to do with ActionMap in the catalog.cfg but after a while
> and my brain turning to mush, how would i get it to update the
> information then go to the finalpage.html - (even a referrence I
> overlooked would help) I am sure I am missing a fundamental way
> that minivend gets from page to page.

I did this recently and there are too many details for me to recall how I
did it. Read the docs _carefully_. All of the info you need is there.
There is also a message in the archive which is a how-to of sorts. The
problem I still have is when people hit the back button in these multiple
checkout pages. My solution was to set the page expiration date to "0".

> 2.  Is it possible to add a product to the shopping cart without
> actually entering the cart, leaving the person in the search result
> page?

Just pass the page you want to display next to [order].

Christopher Thompson


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