Re: minimalist shopping cart.
This WebDNA talk-list message is from 1997
It keeps the original formatting.
numero = 15510
interpreted = N
texte = >I am working on a solution in which my customer doesn't want to see his >shopping cart. Unless he specifically axes for it. When he adds an item >he will be return to his same page. That was easy enough, but, I would >like to do a lookup into the [cart] file and determine if a specific file >exists there. If it doesn't then I want to change the gif from 'buy' to >'remove'. Is the cart file like a database can I do a sub lookup into >that cart file extract a value like I would from any database?No, cart files are not databases. The exact format is documented in the online docs, but the best way to get at information inside cart files is to use [OrderFile] and [LineItems] contexts. If you want to test for the existence of any file on your hard disk (regardless of its type), then you can use the new [FileInfo] context in 2.1, or perhaps [ListFiles]Here's an example of getting some information from the order file[OrderFile cart=1234] [Header14], [ShipToState]
[LineItems] [sku], [price]
[/LineItems] [/OrderFile]Grant Hulbert, V.P. Engineering | ==== eCommerce for the Rest of Us ==== Pacific Coast Software | WebCatalog, WebMerchant, 11770 Bernardo Plaza Court | SiteEdit Pro, PhotoMaster, San Diego, CA 92128 | Typhoon 619/675-1106 Fax: 619/675-0372 | http://www.smithmicro.com/
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>I am working on a solution in which my customer doesn't want to see his >shopping cart. Unless he specifically axes for it. When he adds an item >he will be return to his same page. That was easy enough, but, I would >like to do a lookup into the
[cart] file and determine if a specific file >exists there. If it doesn't then I want to change the gif from 'buy' to >'remove'. Is the cart file like a database can I do a sub lookup into >that cart file extract a value like I would from any database?No, cart files are not databases. The exact format is documented in the online docs, but the best way to get at information inside cart files is to use
[orderfile] and
[lineitems] contexts. If you want to test for the existence of any file on your hard disk (regardless of its type), then you can use the new
[fileinfo] context in 2.1, or perhaps
[listfiles]Here's an example of getting some information from the
order file[OrderFile cart=1234] [Header14], [ShipToState]
[lineitems] [sku], [price]
[/LineItems] [/OrderFile]Grant Hulbert, V.P. Engineering | ==== eCommerce for the Rest of Us ==== Pacific Coast Software | WebCatalog, WebMerchant, 11770 Bernardo Plaza Court | SiteEdit Pro, PhotoMaster, San Diego, CA 92128 | Typhoon 619/675-1106 Fax: 619/675-0372 | http://www.smithmicro.com/
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