RE: Adding a product from another site

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1997

It keeps the original formatting. numero = 13219
interpreted = N
texte = Chris ->A company we are making a store for wants to be able to add a product from>their web site directly into the shopping cart. I realize how this is>accomplished using the add command, but the cart is not generated. The url>I'm testing is>http://cyber1.virtualrep.com/scripts/webcatalog/photosphere/shoppingcart.tpl>?command=add&sku=PP&db=catalog.txt&cart=[cart]>I have put this link on a page that is on the store server and it works>fine, but they want to be able to add the product from their web server.Okay, I think I see the problem - since their web server is not running WebCatalog, the [cart] will not be replaced with a valid cart number, but will remain as [cart]. What you should do instead is pass in the necessary information about the product to add as variables and use an [AddLineItem] context on the shoppingcart.tpl page to actually add the item to the cart. This way, you'd use a url like:http://cyber1.virtualrep.com/scripts/webcatalog/photosphere/shoppingcart.tpl?sku=PP&db=catalog.txtand a context like [AddLineItem cart=[cart]&db=[db]&SKU=[SKU]] on the shoppingcart.tpl page to generate a cart number and actually add the item to that cart. You could even put this inside a [showif [referrer]=whatevertheURLforthepageontheirserveris] context to only add that line item if browsers are coming from that page on their server.I hope this helps,Marc EagleStarNine Technologieshttp://www.smithmicro.com/ Associated Messages, from the most recent to the oldest:

RE: Adding a product from another site (Marc Eagle 1997)

Chris ->A company we are making a store for wants to be able to add a product from>their web site directly into the shopping cart. I realize how this is>accomplished using the add command, but the cart is not generated. The url>I'm testing is>http://cyber1.virtualrep.com/scripts/webcatalog/photosphere/shoppingcart.tpl>?command=add&sku=PP&db=catalog.txt&cart=[cart]>I have put this link on a page that is on the store server and it works>fine, but they want to be able to add the product from their web server.Okay, I think I see the problem - since their web server is not running WebCatalog, the [cart] will not be replaced with a valid cart number, but will remain as [cart]. What you should do instead is pass in the necessary information about the product to add as variables and use an [addlineitem] context on the shoppingcart.tpl page to actually add the item to the cart. This way, you'd use a url like:http://cyber1.virtualrep.com/scripts/webcatalog/photosphere/shoppingcart.tpl?sku=PP&db=catalog.txtand a context like [AddLineItem cart=[cart]&db=[db]&SKU=[SKU]] on the shoppingcart.tpl page to generate a cart number and actually add the item to that cart. You could even put this inside a [showif [referrer]=whatevertheURLforthepageontheirserveris] context to only add that line item if browsers are coming from that page on their server.I hope this helps,Marc EagleStarNine Technologieshttp://www.smithmicro.com/ Marc Eagle

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