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

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On Thu, Oct 10, 2002 at 02:34:57PM +0200, racke@linuxia.de wrote:
> John Allman writes: 
> 
> >Mike Heins wrote: 
> >
> >>As with most IC things, it is just a perl data structure.
> >> $Session = {
> >>               carts => {
> >>                   main => [],
> >>                   newcart => [
> >>                        { code => 'foo', quantity => 1, mv_ib => 
> >>'products' },
> >>                       ],
> >>               },
> >>            etc => 'etc.',
> >>       }; 
> >>
> >>  
> >>
> >Hi - just a quick query here. I posted this a few hours ago under a 
> >different thread, but since it is in fact a different issue i though i 
> >should start a seperate thread. sorry if this annoys anyone! 
> >
> >Am i right in thinking that if i want to add a new key and value to the 
> >shopping cart data scructure it is pretty straightforward? I am 
> >considering going with a one shopping basket solution and just having 
> >something on the basket page to indicate that an item ordered was ordered 
> >via the "quick catalog order" option. I'm thinking that it should be 
> >possible for me to put something like quickorder => 1 in the perl 
> >structure and then access it on the basket page with [item-quickorder]. Am 
> >i right in thinking this and if so could you tell me the correct syntax? 
> >
> >i'm thinking maybe something like 
> >
> >$lastitem = pop($Session->{carts}->{main});
> >$lastitem->{'quickorder' => 1};
> 
> I doubt that is valid Perl syntax. Try: 
> 

It looks valid to me, though it might or might not give the
desired result.  :^>

> $lastitem->{quickorder} = 1; 
> 
> >push($Session->{carts}->{main},$lastitem);
> 
> Or in the shorthand: 
> 
> $Items->[$#$Items]->{quickorder} = 1 
> 
> >
> >could something like that work and could i access it with 
> >[item-quickorder] on the basket page? is there a better way to do what i'm 
> >looking for?
> 

How are we supposed to guess what you are looking for?  :-)

If you are more comfortable with straight perl than the tags, use
perl.  IC is written in perl and mostly aimed at non-programmers
that don't know perl.  That doesn't stop people who know perl from
doing all sorts of nasty things to it late at night.


> Don't try to invent ITL :-;, give [item-field quickorder] a shot. 
> 
> You may need AutoModifier quickorder in the configuration. 
> 
> Bye
>     Racke 
> 
> 
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