[ic] forms, profiles, checkout

[Stefan Hornburg Racke]

Jurgen Botz <jurgen@botz.org> writes:

> Forms, profiles and checkout seem to be the most poorly documented part
> of IC, or at least I couldn't find very much info on them.  So I have
> some questions...
> 
> 1) The profiles of the foundation store use a variety of IC tags.  Are
>    there any restriction on what you can do in a profile?  Should I be
>    able to manipulate all the session state?  [userdb save] doesn't
>    seem to work for me in a profile.

Basically any tag will work, but you have to be aware that a profile
has a different parsing scheme then a page (see docs).

> 
> 2) &final triggers the actual order processing, right?  Can that be
>    inside a conditional, i.e. can I say something like...
> 
>      [if value user_checked_box]
>         &final
>      [/if]
> 
>    ..?  And in general, how do these &thingies work, are they just 
>    subroutine calls and sure to be processed sequentially?

That'll work. First the profile is interpolated, than the profile
is parse again sequentially for &thingy etc.

> 
> 3) In a profile, is there any difference between...
> 
>      &set=some_value 123
> 
>       ...and...
> 
>      [value name=some_value set=123]   ...?

Certainly, see above.

> 
> 4) After &final processing, what is the state of the session?  Does
>    $Values get reset?  What about $Scratch?

The cart will be dropped after the order is finished, but this at
a later point.

Ciao
        Racke

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