Order Receipt Hide link if the item category was not purchased

Hi Jason,

I have a link that appears on the order EMAIL receipt that sends the customer to a page on the site if they purchased an item within a certain item category. Specifically this would be ItemCatID = 6.

How can I hide this link if they did not purchase something that was in that category?

thx
Eric

you would need to have a column in the cart that stores the ItemCatID.

then use a loop through the cart items, to see if that column has any items that equal 6.

If there are, set a variable to true, and use that variable in an if statement around the link, for example:

<?php

$catSix = 0;

while (!$eCart1->EOF())      {

  if($eCart1->DisplayInfo("ItemCatID") == "6") { $catSix = "1"; }

  $eCart1->MoveNext();

}

$eCart1->MoveFirst();

?>

<?php if($catSix == "1") {?><a href="http://www.mydomain.com/page.php">LINK</a><?php } ?>

Hi Jason,

Does it matter where this is placed on the page?

<?php

$catSix = 0;

while (!$eCart1->EOF()) {

if($eCart1->DisplayInfo("ItemCatID") == "6") { $catSix = "1"; }

$eCart1->MoveNext();

}

$eCart4->MoveFirst();

?>

it needs to be in the email message where you want the link to show.

NOTE:
eCart1 is the name of the cart object, you will need to change this if you use a different cart name. My code was a sample of how it could be done and is not supported.

Okay, got that working! For some reason the sessions is not getting dumped and the order numbers are staying the same per different orders.
Then when the link appears for the public download page it shows the correct info, but the download button does not work.

Confused :)

thx
Eric

add the following code to the checkout success after the closing </html> tag:

<?php

// Initialize the session.

// If you are using session_name("something"), don't forget it now!

@session_start();



// Unset all of the session variables.

$_SESSION = array();



// If it's desired to kill the session, also delete the session cookie.

// Note: This will destroy the session, and not just the session data!

if (ini_get("session.use_cookies")) {

    $params = session_get_cookie_params();

    @setcookie(session_name(), '', time() - 42000,

        $params["path"], $params["domain"],

        $params["secure"], $params["httponly"]

    );

}



// Finally, destroy the session.

@session_destroy();

@session_regenerate_id();

?>

in the download behavior, set the trigger to use the Submit button pressed instead of current page submit.

Okay, for the checkout success page I added the kill session code. In the database Orders table it inserted the OrderReferenceID as the same number on the previous order (62672818535e9c0a53127e3a72d74d20).

I guess the session is not getting killed somewhere.

thx
Eric

did you load the success page at least once after adding the code?

if you just add the session destroy code to the success page, and don't load it, it wont destroy the session, it needs to load at least once after it has been added before you test an order.

Yes, I cleared the browser cache and did a test to complete an order and then moved from that success page to the login area and it had killed my login session.

I also did a another test in a different browser and the same results but nothing is showing up on the download page after the order is placed. I am getting the email order receipt with the correct link to the download page.

thx
Eric

I'll need to troubleshoot directly, see the private message section.