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

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Thu Oct 10 10:36:00 2002


John Allman writes: 

> racke@linuxia.de wrote: 
> 
>> John Allman writes: 
>> 
>>> 
>>> 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:
>> $lastitem->{quickorder} = 1; 
>> 
>>> push($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?
>>  
>> 
>> Don't try to invent ITL :-;, give [item-field quickorder] a shot.
>> You may need AutoModifier quickorder in the configuration.
>> Bye
>>     Racke 
>> 
> Ok - i'm getting places. i have the following in the page for the quick 
> catalog order: 
> 
> [set altercart]
> [perl]
>        $Session->{carts}->{main}->[$Tag->nitems(main)-1]->{quickorder}=1;
> [/perl]
> [/set] 
> 
> and later:
> <input type=hidden name=mv_check value=altercart> 
> 
> i found that if i put the code in mv_click it wasn't executed before the 
> item was added to the cart - but this way seems to work. [dump] reveals 
> the following in the  ##### ###### SESSION ##### bit: 
> 
> 'carts' => { 'main' =>  [ { 'spprice' => undef, 'userdiscount' => undef, 
> 'quickorder' => 1, 'mv_ip' => '0', 'code' => '0115163400', 'size' => 
> undef, 'mv_ib' => 'products', 'quantity' => 1, 'color' => undef } ] } 
> 
> so it looks like quickorder has been added and assigned the value 1. good 
> stuff so far. 
> 
> however i'm having difficulty getting it back out in the basket page. 
> [item-field quickorder] returns nothing. i added a line AutoModifier 
> quickorder into the catalog.cfg but that doesn't appear to improve matters 
> either...

Hm, then try [item-modifier quickorder]. 

Ciao
       Racke 


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