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

[interchange-users@icdevgroup.org (Ed LaFrance)]

At 09:47 AM 10/11/2002 +0100, you wrote:
>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

No, [modifier-name ...] is only used in cart iterations, much like 
[quantity-name]. For what you want, use:

         <input type=hidden name=mv_order_quickorder value=1>

- Ed L.


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