Only can go forward if a certain item is selected?

Hello I am working on a site that you can be a professional or a student, if you are a professional you need to purchase a local membership also but if you are a student you dont need to purchase one. But I have had professionals that have been selecting student so that they skip local membership. How can I put a code in that only someone who selected student in the first part can select student in the second part.

First is an add to cart button, then they use a drop down to determine where to go but if they select student then they go right to the checkout page. Here is the drop down coding


<select name="selecter" class="text" id="selecter"
onChange="if(this.selectedIndex>0)document.location.href=this.options[this.selectedIndex].value">
<option value="" selected>Select Local Membership</option>
<option value="../forms/-tlanta.asp">Atlanta - Atlanta, Georgia [and surrounding area]</option>
<option value="../forms/-A.asp">B - Birmingham, Alabama [and surrounding area]</option>
<option value="../forms/-MA.asp">Bos - Boston, Massachusetts [and surrounding area]</option>
<option value="../forms/-OMA.asp">DC - Washington, DC [and surrounding area]</option>
<option value="../forms/-A.asp">H - Houston, Texas [and surrounding area]</option>
<option value="../forms/-MA.asp">i - Illinois Chapter [and surrounding area]</option>
<option value="../forms/-OMA.asp">Los Angeles, California [and surrounding area]</option>
<option value="../forms/-ORLANDO.asp">ORLANDO - Orlando, Florida [and surrounding area]</option>
<option value="../forms/-Phila.asp">Phila - Philadelphia, Pennsylvania [and surrounding area]</option>
<option value="../forms/-SF.asp">SF - San Francisco, California [and surrounding area]</option>
<option value="../forms/-NY.asp">NY - New York [and surrounding area]</option>
<option value="../forms/-NW.asp">NW - Pacific Northwest [and surrounding area]</option>
<option value="../forms/-detroit.asp">Detroit - Detroit, Michigan [and surrounding area]</option>
<option value="../forms/-STL.asp">STL - St. Louis, Missouri [and surrounding area]</option>
<option value="../forms/-regions.asp">Can&rsquo;t Find My Chapter</option>
<option value="../forms/member2.asp">Student Chapter</option>
</select>

maybe there is something i can put on the checkout page that checks the names or something, please let me know.

Thanks,
Randy

It would be possible to limit the student option but how you will do this depends on what you would like the user experience to be like. Will you have special registration codes for the students to use to register? This is the first step, you must determine what criteria you would like to use to determine if the user is a valid student or not.

Once you know how you would like to make this determination you can then proceed to implement the solution. Please describe how this should work from the perspective of the user or student and we will gladly help you with whatever we can.

Hi Eric,
I would like to check the id of the item in the cart to see if it is the student national membership. ID for student membership is 0401130r. Any idea how i could do that.

Thanks,
Randy

You could do something like this by checking on the id of the item that is in the cart.

If student memberships have one id versus another that is used for professional then you could do a custom check to see if it is the student membership that has been added to the cart by checking for the id like this:

if($eCart1->InCart("123")){

//do something

}

or you can check if it is not in the cart like this:

if(!($eCart1->InCart("123"))){

//do something else

}

ok im using the asp coding, any ideas there?

There is a similar function that you can use with asp but it depends what flavor you are using, here are examples in VBscript and JS:

VBscript

if WA_eCart_InCart(WA_eCart, "123") then

'do something

end if

JS

if(WA_eCart_InCart("123")){

// do something

}

Thanks Eric I really appreciate it. This is what i did

<% if WA_eCart_InCart(WA_eCart1, "0401130r") then
response.redirect "member.asp"
%>

Thanks, I just couldn't figure out how to check the id.

Randy

Thanks for posting back with your specific implementation, I'm sure that others will benefit from the example.