Add To Cart Button

I must be missing a peice of information....Why is that when I go throught the steps required for adding a Dynamic Add To Cart Button, as specified in the getting started guide, I am not given a choice to select the particular product I want, for instance In Steps 12-20 I go through the process of binding the columns in the Bindings Tab to the Columns of the recordset I defined for the page. When I do this & test the buy button on my page - the item which winds up in the cart is always the first item I have listed in my database - At what point do I tell the Add To Cart Button that I want the product with a certain ID such as cmc-0203 or ttlm-09x06?

your add to cart button should be in a repeat region to create a button for each record returned from the recordset.

Pardon me, I do not see that explained in either the help menu or the getting started guide. could you please elaborate on that step.

before starting with eCart and adding the add to cart buttons, you need to have set up the stores catalog.

the catalog displays the items that are available for sale on your site.

this is the note at the top of the eCart getting started guide:

  NOTE: eCart does not create your complete online store. It only creates the shopping cart and checkout functionality that must be applied to your website, in order for customers to make purchases, and for your website to process credit card details. You should probably have already set up your product catalog, or the page that you will use to advertise your products.

For more information on creating a product catalog, see the DataAssist Getting Started Guide  

I'm sorry, I'm very confused, I am not currently using DataAssist to create the site, I created web pages & all navigation pages for my products using dreamweaver, In terms of setting up my product catalog I am using the PHP my admin to enter in all the neccasry Product Information...All i want to do is drop a simple buy now button on a standard dreamweaver generated page. I am unclear why DataAssist is needed....I must admit, I am getting frustrated & lost in all of the steps...

  All i want to do is drop a simple buy now button on a standard dreamweaver generated page.  

but that is not what you are asking about, you are asking about adding an Add to cart from recordset button, and why it only adds the first item.

  In terms of setting up my product catalog I am using the PHP my admin to enter in all the neccasry Product Information.  

My reference to your catalog is not terms of how you are entering it, but rather how you are displaying it.

when using a database driven catalog, you generally have a a search page, a results page that displays a collection of records from your products table and detail page that displays a singlle product.

you can add the eCart add to cart button to the results page or the detail page.

you can create these pages manually in Dreamweaver, or you can use DataAssist to create them.


for details on creating this in Dreamweaver see the following pages from the DW Help:
help.html?content=WScbb6b82af5544594822510a94ae8d65-78aa.html

help.html?content=WScbb6b82af5544594822510a94ae8d65-78aa.html

To clarify & hopefully simplify, I am simply asking when I am trying to drop an Ecart Add To Cart Button on a page that I created myself, how do i specify which product I'm refering to?

also, I note, all navigation on the site happens with links I created my self, there is really nothing too Dynamic about these pages, they are all bassically simple HTML style pages that people use to navigate with links I created myself, the only aspect of the database that I interact with is for adding the Buy functionality, not any of the navigation at all...these pages are all created already, not dynamic at all.

you need to filter the recordset to return the product for that page.


the problem you are having is that you are using a database for the add to cart button, but the pages are static.

normally the pages would be dynamic and the navigation would filter the recordset by passing the product ID as a querystring variable.



since your pages are static, you need to filter the recordset on the page so that it returns the correct record.

can you point me to the directions for how to do that in ecart? I don't see any instructions for filtering a recordet in the getting started guide.