Re: Shopping Cart Problem
This WebDNA talk-list message is from 1998
It keeps the original formatting.
numero = 16564
interpreted = N
texte = >Web-Catalog Gurus: > >We are finding an interesting feature (dare I say bug) that is occuring >in our shopping cart system. It also happens in all of the examples >shipped with Web Catalog. > >The problem occurs when a user adds something to the shopping cart, and >then changes the quantity that they want and then they decide they want to >Shop Some More.Do the quantities actually get changed?>When they click on that link, we pass the [cart] info >along, and everything is fine until they visit their shopping cart again. >All of the products that they ordered are there, but the [quantity] and any >other custom tags that we have there are either blank or at quantity=1. > >Is there a way to force Web Catalog to remember what the quantities should >be? I see two ways of doing this, but am not quite sure how to implement >either: > >1) Pass all of the quantity and other custom info to through the Shop Some >More link, and all subsequent pages (this seems REALLY clumsy)This won't work, URL's cannot pass that much data, plus it won't be changing the data in the shopping cart anyways ...>2) Somehow write the quantity and custom info to the actual Shopping Cart >file, but I have yet to figure out how to do this.It's supposed to be doing this already, how have you changed your templates?Sincerely, Ken Grome 808-737-6499 WebDNA Solutions mailto:ken@webdna.net http://www.webdna.net
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>Web-Catalog Gurus: > >We are finding an interesting feature (dare I say bug) that is occuring >in our shopping cart system. It also happens in all of the examples >shipped with Web Catalog. > >The problem occurs when a user adds something to the shopping cart, and >then changes the quantity that they want and then they decide they want to >Shop Some More.Do the quantities actually get changed?>When they click on that link, we pass the
[cart] info >along, and everything is fine until they visit their shopping cart again. >All of the products that they ordered are there, but the [quantity] and any >other custom tags that we have there are either blank or at quantity=1. > >Is there a way to force Web Catalog to remember what the quantities should >be? I see two ways of doing this, but am not quite sure how to implement >either: > >1) Pass all of the quantity and other custom info to through the Shop Some >More link, and all subsequent pages (this seems REALLY clumsy)This won't work, URL's cannot pass that much data, plus it won't be changing the data in the shopping cart anyways ...>2) Somehow write the quantity and custom info to the actual Shopping Cart >file, but I have yet to figure out how to do this.It's supposed to be doing this already, how have you changed your templates?Sincerely, Ken Grome 808-737-6499 WebDNA Solutions mailto:ken@webdna.net http://www.webdna.net
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