using javascript to add item(s) to cart

I am playing around with jquery, using sortable with connected lists - to drag and drop elements into a list which I want to use as a 'pre-cart' so that when I add an add to cart behavior to my page, it takes all elements from my list and adds them to the cart.

I can store the 'pre cart' elements in a js array, and also store them in a cookie, but haven't worked out how to add them to the cart.

I guess that clicking the add to cart button will reload the page, so I need to store the elements in a cookie or session variable, (haven't worked the session variable bit out yet, but I can store a cookie ok).

Then I guess that when the page reloads, I take my cookie/session string values, and pass the values into the cart using a do while loop ?

Is this a sensible approach ?

Grateful for any ideas/advice

it'll take a good amount of hand coding to accomplish this.

use JQUERY to store the items ID in a session array.

see this thread for details on saving to a session using jquery:
setting-a-php-sessionvar-using-jquery


create a recordset that will use the Session to return the selected items, and use the Add to Cart get contents from recordset to populate the cart with the selected items.

thanks for the reply Jason.

I got it working, (with a cookie for now), I am passing the selected id's back as a filter into a lookup recordset and the items are added to the cart in a loop.

Only thing is, with the ecart get from recordset server behavior, there is no option (i can see) if an item is already in the cart.

I tried adding _AddIfIn=0 manually, but this doesn't work, whatever I do, i can only add one of each item to the cart

The quantity would need to be set on the cart display page.

Ok good enough.

Thanks for your help

I have a number of elements, stored in a session variable, which I am using to build up a filter criteria string.
This seems to work ok.

I can then use the resulting recordset to populate the cart using ecart get from recordset server behaviour.

What I also need to do is count the number of each itemid in my string or array, so that I can use this to put the appropriate quantities of the respective id’s in the cart.
I appreciate this will take a bit of hand coding, but need a shove in the right direction.

For example, my filter criteria may say something like
“SELECT ItemID, `Description`, Colour, Price FROM tblitems WHERE ItemID = 2 OR ItemID = 5”

But I may have 3 instances of itemid 2 and 1 instance of itemid 5 to add.

I can extract this information from my session variable by manipulating the string or array, but can’t work out how to add these values to the cart.

the get contents from recordset behavior uses a recordset loop.

inside the loop, you will need to add code to check which ID is currently being added, look up the count of times that id occurs in your string, then use that value to set the quantity.


the first few lines look like this:

<?php

// WA eCart Get Info From RS

if (eCart1->IsEmpty() && isset($totalRows_recordsetName) && $totalRows_recordsetName > 0)     {

  $Redirect_redirStr="";

  do     {

    $eCart1_itemID = floatval("".$row_recordsetName['ProductID']  ."");

}

$row_recordsetName['ProductID'] is the current ID being added, use that to look up the quantity in the session

thanks Jason, I'll look at that tomorrow.

One final question with respect to this.

my add to cart button now has 2 functions, on click it fires the javascript to set the session value, then posts the form.

it works, but I wondered, is this intrinsic behavior, will the javascript always fire before the form is posted or do I need to set this behavior.

since your using onclik event, yes, it will always trigger the JS before the form is submitted. the click action happens first, the onClick action is otherwise known as the onMouseDown action. onMouseUp is the action that submits the form.

thanks Jason.

I'm really starting to get into jquery now, appreciate the help.