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Add to Cart Button (Dynamic)

Thread began 5/27/2010 10:21 pm by mora398588 | Last modified 6/07/2010 2:32 pm by Eric Mittman | 1753 views | 5 replies |

mora398588

Add to Cart Button (Dynamic)

I am currently using your Free eCommerce MySQL database to input data about products my business is looking to sell. At this time, I have all the data, including pricing, entered in the DB. I am now at the point where I need to create add-to-cart buttons for my web page.

I would like to create dynamic buttons, but I am uncertain how to create them while making sure they are pulling the correct data for each of my items. I have reviewed your solution recipes and getting started documentation; however, when you get to the point where you're adding the default values to the columns, how do I know that the button is accurately pulling the correct information for the product? I understand that I will be setting the value for the product ID, but how does eCart know which product to reference without letting it know which item?

I am not using repeat regions. I need to create separate buttons. Can you clarify the procedure for me?

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Eric Mittman

If you are not adding these buttons to a repeat region and have individual pages for the items then you do not need to do anything special. You just need to add a recordset to the page that will pull the details for the given item. Once that is on the page you can then add a regular 'add to cart button' on the page and in the bindings tab use the lightning bolt icon to select the values from your recordset.

This will ensure that you are adding the details for this item to the cart, if the details are updated in the db the dynamic references to the data will reflect this.

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mora398588

I have followed your last instructions. Though the "add-to-cart" button is pulling the data, it is not differentiating between the items in my DB.

For example, I added a separate "add-to-cart" buttons for two different items. When I tested the first button's functionality, I noticed that the correct item was displayed in the shopping cart. When I click on the second button, the same information was displayed. In other words, two of the same items were pulled from the database.

I am uncertain how to alter the binding's tab in the "add-to-cart" button so as to differentiate between the various items in my DB.

Thank you for your time in helping me with this issue.

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Eric Mittman

The reason that you are getting the same item added to the cart is because the same record is used in the add to cart server behavior. If you want to have multiple add to cart buttons on a page at once there are two choices.

You can either have a single recordset and use a repeat region around the add to cart form on the page or you can have multiple recordsets and multiple add to cart server behaviors on the page.

Which way would you like yours to be? Please post back with some details and include a copy of your current page.

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mora398588

Thank you for your assistance. I was able to work it out.

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Eric Mittman

Glad to hear that, did you end up going with a repeat region listing of the products or did you use filtered recordsets?

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