Custom ReferenceID

I have a customer that find the current reference id (generated by the cart session) silly so he asked me to create one custom using 2 letters, the current year and the order ID number.

Well I assume is not difficult and my question is also silly, but what will be the code to achieve that? I have created a new filed on the order table to store this custom reference ID

I tried this in the biding --> BI<?php echo date("Y"); ?><?php $_SESSION["BITCart_OrderID"]; ?> and it didn't work. What am i missing here?

Thank you all for the help.

Try:

<?php echo("BI" .date("Y") . $_SESSION["BITCart_OrderID"]); ?>

Ray,

Thank you very much, I go the BI, the year but no order ID.

This is in the confirm page and the Order isn't registered in the data until the submit order button is click correct? I'm really lost here...

Thanks for any help you can give me.

Yes, the orderid isn't generated until the order is placed. This should be on the checkout_success page and not the confirm page.

So I will have to add a custom update when the success page load, correct? BTW: the customer uses Payment Standard (remote payment) it will work?

Ray if I buy a Premium Ticket can you help me implement what I need for this customer?
1. IPN response to retrieve PayPal Transaction Id and store it in the order table.
2. Store the custom reference number as discuss on this forum
3. Set the success page to send an email with the order summary.

Thanks

Yes, these things can be accomplished in premium ticket.

Originally Said By: Jason Byrnes

  Yes, these things can be accomplished in premium ticket.  

Can we set this for today? Ticket issued.

Thanks

you will need to contact the sales department to set the schedule for the premiere ticket, I'm not sure if it can be scheduled for today, but it can probably be scheduled for tomorrow.