Changing the discount description.

In my store, discounts vary depending on the customer logged in

I have a number of discount rules, which use session values, allocated from a recordset, filtered by the current customer
This all seems to work pretty well, but I would like to alter the description of the discount rule, as it appears in the cart.
(I realise I will need to hand code this on the cart_PHP.php page and not be able to re-enter the ecart object interface)

As an example, I have a discounts rule which appears as

$this->Discounts[] = new WA_eCart_Rule(urldecode("10%25%20Summer%20Special"), true, "WAEC_cscart_10SummerSpecial");

If I replace the string 10%25%20Summer%20Special with a different string, the function WAEC_cscart_10SummerSpecial is still called, so that’s great.


So

$this->Discounts[] = new WA_eCart_Rule(urldecode("15%25%20Winter%20Special "), true, "WAEC_cscart_10SummerSpecial");

Gives me a different description


However if I try to replace the string or part of the string with say, a session value, nothing appears for the session value, which I know is set.
I have tried the following, and neither work for me

$this->Discounts[] = new WA_eCart_Rule(urldecode($_SESSION[‘'VoucherCode']."%25%20Winter%20Special "), true, "WAEC_cscart_10SummerSpecial");

$this->Discounts[] = new WA_eCart_Rule($_SESSION['VoucherCode'].urldecode("10%25%20Summer%20Special"), true, "WAEC_cscart_10SummerSpecial");

I assume I'm missing something

instead of changing the name in the cart object file, you can change how it is displayed on the cart display page.


the code that will display the discount name will look like:

<?php echo $YourCart->RuleLooperName("Discounts"); ?>

this will be inside a loop that goes through each discount and displays the name, then the discount amount.


you can display the session in front of the discount name using:

<?php echo($_SESSION['VoucherCode']." ".$YourCart->RuleLooperName("Discounts")); ?>

Hi Jason.

Thanks for the reply.

I have used your proposed solution on a previous site

showpost.php?p=65834&postcount=5

It certainly works, but i was hoping to build the description string within the ecart_PHP.php page.

If yours is the best solution, I'll stick with it.

to be honest, I haven't tried setting the name dynamically in the cart object, but if it is working on the cart display page, my guess is that the variable is not set at the time the cart object is being loaded, but gets set farther down the page.

I would use the method of setting the name on the cart display rather than setting it in the cart object it, for 2 reasons:

1) you can get this to work

2) You can still edit the eCart object.

Seem like 2 good reasons to me !

Thanks for your help.

no worries.