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Submit form data to the cart

Thread began 3/01/2013 7:32 am by elewis93815 | Last modified 3/01/2013 8:42 am by Jason Byrnes | 1554 views | 3 replies |

elewis93815

Submit form data to the cart

Hello,

We have a client that has a personalized product that will require certain data to submit with the cart e.g. A piece of artwork that is personalized based upon the data in the form. How would I accomplish this? Here is the link that we are working on: wian.php

Thank you,

Jackie

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Jason ByrnesWebAssist

For each field (First Name, Middle Name, Last Name, etc...), you need to add a column to the eCart object.

then in the add to cart button, set those columns to be up-dateable from a text box. This will create the text boxes on the page for the add to cart button and add the text entered in those fields to the corresponding cart column.

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elewis93815

Thanks Jason!
Is there a way to combine all of this data (first name, middle name, last name, and paper selection) into one column (possibly the Description column) or have the columns hidden unless this item is being purchased? My reason for asking is I believe that the order display page will be quite wide with the additional data, causing data to roll over??? Any thoughts would be greatly appreciated!

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Jason ByrnesWebAssist

You could combine the columns into one using the calculations tab.
Crate a new calculation, set they type to Text, then concatenate the columns together:


[FirstName] . ' ' . [MiddleName] . ' ' . [LastName] etc

you can then add the binding for this calculation to one of the existing cart display columns like the products name column.

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elewis93815

Hi Again Jason,

I added the columns for just "WIAN" and "Paper" which I think is all that is relevant at this point. I also set these two new columns as text boxes which works great, however, when the item is added to the cart, the paper field shows the price and the WIAN field shows a "0". I'm sure I did something incorrect but I am unsure what???? I've attached the files, any help is appreciated.

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Christopher WestCommunity Expert

Hi Jackie, Have you checked out WebAssist tutorial on ecart product options that may give you more of an idea on what you want to accomplish?

product_options.php

With the ecommerce website I coded I got help with setting up product options in a different way using a combination of adding a column to the ecart object as well as storing all the product options in a single session array using delimiters to separate the content you wish to store and passing that onto the ecart object single column (rather then setting up many columns).

then to access this later (to show on a confirm page or order page etc you would explode the content of the session array: here is a reference if you want to learn more about that:
function.explode.php
function.implode.php


Chris

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Jason ByrnesWebAssist

Jackie, the code in the page looks correct, i will have to debug this directly on the server.

I have created a support ticket so we can look into this issue further.

To view and edit your support ticket, please log into your support history:
supporthistory.php

If anyone else is experiencing this same issue, please append to this thread.

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