[ic] Re: adding extra information into the shopping cart structure

[interchange-users@icdevgroup.org (John Allman)]

Ed LaFrance wrote:

> At 05:47 PM 10/10/2002 +0100, you wrote:
>
>> Ed LaFrance wrote:
>>
>>> At 04:24 PM 10/10/2002 +0100, you wrote:
>>>
>>>> Jerry Brady wrote:
>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> I use:
>>>>>
>>>>> <INPUT TYPE="checkbox" NAME="[modifier-name hotdip]" value="Y">
>>>>>
>>>>> in one of my checkout pages to set a modifier to let me know if 
>>>>> the item
>>>>> is needed urgently by the customer.  This works in within the 
>>>>> context of
>>>>> the [item-list] directive and will automagically get the form 
>>>>> field name
>>>>> so that your modifier value gets set upon submit or refresh of the 
>>>>> page.
>>>>>
>>>>> - Jerry
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> Hmmm - i dont appear to have a [modifier-name] tag. i put it in my 
>>>> page and looked at the source and i could see <input type=hidden 
>>>> name=[modifier name quickorder] value=1>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>                                                 ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
>>>
>>> That's a typo - if that is what you actually have on the page, then 
>>> there's your problem. Should be:
>>>
>>>         <input type=hidden name=[modifier-name quickorder] value=1>
>>>
>>> - Ed L.
>>>
>> That was a typo. I do have
>>
>> <input type=hidden name=[modifier-name quickorder] value=1>
>>
>> on the page. when i view the source of the page i see precicely this 
>> - [modifier-name] does not appear to have been interpreted by ic.
>>
>> thanks
>>
>> John
>
>
> It will only work when enclosed in an [item-list][/item-list], and 
> there needs to be at least one item in the cart, and presumably it 
> would need to have an existing value for quickorder, and UserModifer 
> quickorder needs to be in catalog.cfg (and the catalog needs to be 
> reconfiged). Have you met all those condititions?
>
> - Ed L.

No - I haven't. It is not enclosed in [item-list][/item-list]. But 
there's no need for an item-list tag on my quickorder page. Perhaps i'm 
missing something. I want a form to order a product (which i've got) and 
at the same time set the value of the quickorder modifier to 1 (to 
indicate that it was not ordered by the usual process). at the moment i 
have some perl in mv_check which sets quickorder=1 for the newly added 
item. Is this a situation where i can/should use modifier-name?

thanks

John