Populate Cart Item

I'm creating a step by step process for creating a photo book online. On the last step I want them to upload their photos and when they hit submit go to the cart.php page with their photobook already in their cart so they don't have to hit "add to cart" and can go ahead and select the quantity and pay. Is that possible?

This is no different than adding a regular item to the cart, expect that you will be referencing values that are either static or already entered. You just need to add in an add to cart server behavior to the final page in the process, then set the redirect page to the cart display page. You can then have some text on the page or even rite above the quantity column that lets the user know to adjust the quantity here.

I added the "Add to Cart" behavior but nothing is added to the cart when I click the button. Also, the page doesn't redirect to the cart.php page so I'm obviously doin something wrong. I've attached the page, can you point me in the right direction? thanks

here's the url
quote_thank_you3.php

The problem is that there is no initial quantity so the add to cart code is not being executed fully. You will need to default the quantity to at least 1 in order for the item to be added to the cart. You can do this with a hidden form element in your form like this:

<input type="hidden" name="WA_Store_Cart_1_Quantity_Add" id="WA_Store_Cart_1_Quantity_Add" value="1" />

When the item is added, it is like a new product is being created instead of pulling the product from the database. I set the ID to the item I want it to add, but it doesn't pull the price, description, name, options, or image for that product. How do I get it to add one of the products I've already created? I've attached the page...thanks

To get the details of an item to appear on a particular detail page you will need to filter the recordset for that specific product. You would normally do this with a URL parameter like the items id. You would have the recordset crafted and filtered on this value, then wherever you use the bindings for this recordset on the page it will show the details for that specific item.

The add to cart should make use of these recordset values and add them to the cart. Please describe how you have the page setup in this regard and the exact result that you are getting. Also post back with a link where I can see the issue and make sure that I have the current version of that page available. If it is in the current zip archive you have attached then just let me know.

Yes, it's in that zip folder. By url parameter do you mean I need the whole url such as domainname.com/Products_Detail.php?ProductID=7 for the id setting in the add to cart setup? All I have right now is the number "1" for the ID.

Yes, this is precisely what I mean by URL parameter. The details page should be filtering a recordset based on the id or some other unique value to ensure that you have only a singe record coming back. You can then use the bindings from this recordset wherever you need the details for that item.

I'm not understanding exactly what the problem is that you are currently experiencing. Please post back with a link where I can see this along with the precise steps that I should take to see the behavior. Having a detail page show the details for a particular item is not a very difficult task and it seems there is a fundamental misunderstanding either about the situation or the result that you are getting.

I'm not going to the detail page, I'm trying to go straight to the cart.php page. The add to cart function right now doesn't pull an item from the database, it just creates a new item based on the input you in the bindings tab of the add to cart behavior. I would like it to populate the item from the database along with the product image, price, weight, options..etc. I've attached the page where I added the behavior and a screen shot of the selections. I put Products_Detail.php?ProductID=1 where the ID goes, but it still doesn't work how I would like it to.

The url is quote_thankyou.php if you click the deposit link you should have a product populate in the cart but it doesn't have the settings of the product I'm trying to pull from the database. There's no description, no image, no options, and the price is wrong.

Ok, thanks for explaining that. You are missing some parts for this. Firstly you will need to add another recordset to this page to pull the details for the item. You should add in a recordset and have it filter by the id for the item. If you have only the one then you can just hard code the filtered value.

Once you have the recordset created you can then go into the add to cart server behavior and bind the cart columns with their corresponding values from the recordset. When you do it like this you will be adding the item to the cart, and the details will be coming from your db based on the id that you filter the recordset on.