RE: Problems with shopping cart

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1997

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texte = Paul ->The problem that I have is that with the products that are in my>database. Some of them have more that one price, ie if you order 1 of>that particular item you are charged X amount of pounds and if you order>100 of that particular item you are charged Y pounds.>>Now, I have a shopping cart that has say 3 items in it and each one has>more that one price as explained above. What I want to do is set up a>[show if] statement so that webcatalog goes through each of the items,>checks the quantity and display's the correct price.Sure - you can use any WebDNA commands you like in the [price] formula in your formulas.db file to generate different prices based on quantity (or date, or whatever). The current price formula just looks up the price field in your product database, I believe, but you could have fields like 'price1' 'price2' 'price3' etc. in your products database, and then use [showif] for the price formula in formulas.db to look up price1 if quantity is up to a certain amount, price2 if it is above that amount, and so on.Alternatively, instead of adding fields to your database, you could have the price formula generate a discount based on quantity, so that if the quantity is above a certain amount, the [price] is multiplied by .9, and so forth.I hope that makes a bit of sense,Marc EagleStarNine Technologieshttp://www.smithmicro.com/ Associated Messages, from the most recent to the oldest:

RE: Problems with shopping cart (Marc Eagle 1997)

Paul ->The problem that I have is that with the products that are in my>database. Some of them have more that one price, ie if you order 1 of>that particular item you are charged X amount of pounds and if you order>100 of that particular item you are charged Y pounds.>>Now, I have a shopping cart that has say 3 items in it and each one has>more that one price as explained above. What I want to do is set up a>[show if] statement so that webcatalog goes through each of the items,>checks the quantity and display's the correct price.Sure - you can use any WebDNA commands you like in the [price] formula in your formulas.db file to generate different prices based on quantity (or date, or whatever). The current price formula just looks up the price field in your product database, I believe, but you could have fields like 'price1' 'price2' 'price3' etc. in your products database, and then use [showif] for the price formula in formulas.db to look up price1 if quantity is up to a certain amount, price2 if it is above that amount, and so on.Alternatively, instead of adding fields to your database, you could have the price formula generate a discount based on quantity, so that if the quantity is above a certain amount, the [price] is multiplied by .9, and so forth.I hope that makes a bit of sense,Marc EagleStarNine Technologieshttp://www.smithmicro.com/ Marc Eagle

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