Getting but now button to show up and function in sidebox

[ctcentralinfo]

Greetings folks,
I created a add to cart button in my specials sidebox on the the right right under best sellers sidebox.

My site: www.cooltechcentral.com

I can't get it to function, I was wondering if someone could help with getting the button to work better yet getting the buy it now button to show up and work instead.

[Ajeh]

This is some code that was for Featured Products to get buttons or add to cart with quantity box ... and had the built in safety to attributes to be more info ...

    if (zen_has_product_attributes($featured_products->fields['products_id'])) {
      // show a more link for attributes
      $lc_button = '<a href="' . zen_href_link(zen_get_info_page($featured_products->fields['products_id']), 'cPath=' . ( ($_GET['manufacturers_id'] > 0 and $_GET['filter_id']) > 0 ? zen_get_generated_category_path_rev($_GET['filter_id']) : $_GET['cPath'] > 0 ? zen_get_generated_category_path_rev($_GET['cPath']) : zen_get_generated_category_path_rev($listing->fields['master_categories_id'])) . '&products_id=' . $featured_products->fields['products_id']) . '">' . MORE_INFO_TEXT . '</a>';
      $lc_button2 = '<a href="' . zen_href_link(zen_get_info_page($featured_products->fields['products_id']), 'cPath=' . ( ($_GET['manufacturers_id'] > 0 and $_GET['filter_id']) > 0 ? zen_get_generated_category_path_rev($_GET['filter_id']) : $_GET['cPath'] > 0 ? zen_get_generated_category_path_rev($_GET['cPath']) : zen_get_generated_category_path_rev($listing->fields['master_categories_id'])) . '&products_id=' . $featured_products->fields['products_id']) . '">' . MORE_INFO_TEXT . '</a>';
    } else {
      // show an add to cart choose one or the other
      $lc_button = '<a href="' . zen_href_link($_GET['main_page'], zen_get_all_get_params(array('action')) . 'action=buy_now&products_id=' . $featured_products->fields['products_id']) . '">' . zen_image_button(BUTTON_IMAGE_BUY_NOW, BUTTON_BUY_NOW_ALT, 'class="listingBuyNowButton"') . '</a>';
      $lc_button2= zen_draw_form('cart_quantity', zen_href_link(zen_get_info_page($featured_products->fields['products_id']), zen_get_all_get_params(array('action')) . 'action=add_product&products_id=' . $featured_products->fields['products_id']), 'post', 'enctype="multipart/form-data"') . '<input type="text" name="cart_quantity" value="' . (zen_get_buy_now_qty($featured_products->fields['products_id'])) . '" maxlength="6" size="4" /><br />' . zen_draw_hidden_field('products_id', $featured_products->fields['products_id']) . zen_image_submit(BUTTON_IMAGE_IN_CART, BUTTON_IN_CART_ALT) . '</form>';
    } 

echo $lc_button or echo $lc_button2 will show the results once you have the variables and such set for the specials ...

See if any of that helps get you on the right track ...

[ctcentralinfo]

I used both, but I get

http://www.cooltechcentral.com/index...o&products_id=

which each time generates:

Sorry, the product was not found.

instead of

http://www.cooltechcentral.com/index...t&products_id=

[Ajeh]

You need to look in the immediate code that you are in and see how the variables/arrays are referenced ...

If the products_id is often $products_id ... you might need:
$featured_products->fields['products_id']

as in the example I gave ...

But, you are in specials ... so it probably will be different ...

Code examples just need a little bit of adapting for use in other places or other files ...

[ctcentralinfo]

I am not sure what you mean, This is what I did:

$content .= '<div>' . $lc_button = '<a href="' . zen_href_link($_GET['main_page'], zen_get_all_get_params(array('action')) . 'action=buy_now&products_id=' . $specials_products->fields['products_id']) . '">' . zen_image_button(BUTTON_IMAGE_BUY_NOW, BUTTON_BUY_NOW_ALT, 'class="listingBuyNowButton"') . '</div>';

I am not sure what you mean.

[gjh42]

$content .= '<div>' . $lc_button = '<a href="' . zen_href_link($_GET['main_page'], zen_get_all_get_params(array('action')) . 'action=buy_now&products_id=' . $specials_products->fields['products_id']) . '">' . zen_image_button(BUTTON_IMAGE_BUY_NOW, BUTTON_BUY_NOW_ALT, 'class="listingBuyNowButton"') . '</div>'; 

For starters, pasting the whole $lc_button = ... statement into the middle of the $content assembly won't work.
You need to let $lc_button be built and then add it to the $content.

$lc_button = '<a href="' . zen_href_link($_GET['main_page'], zen_get_all_get_params(array('action')) . 'action=buy_now&products_id=' . $specials_products->fields['products_id']) . '">' . zen_image_button(BUTTON_IMAGE_BUY_NOW, BUTTON_BUY_NOW_ALT, 'class="listingBuyNowButton"')
$content .= '<div>' . $lc_button . '</div>'; 

Actually, you probably want the whole snippet posted by Ajeh above, followed by

$content .= '<div>' . $lc_button . '</div>';

and you might need to alter some of the code as she described.

[ctcentralinfo]

I tried using both lines of code:

$content .= '<div>' . $lc_button = '<a href="' . zen_href_link($_GET['main_page'], zen_get_all_get_params(array('action')) . 'action=buy_now&products_id=' . $specials_products->fields['products_id']) . '">' . zen_image_button(BUTTON_IMAGE_BUY_NOW, BUTTON_BUY_NOW_ALT, 'class="listingBuyNowButton"') . '</div>';


$content .= '<div>' . $lc_button2= zen_draw_form('cart_quantity', zen_href_link(zen_get_info_page($specials_products->fields['products_id']), zen_get_all_get_params(array('action')) . 'action=add_product&products_id=' . $specials_products->fields['products_id']), 'post', 'enctype="multipart/form-data"') . '<input type="text" name="cart_quantity" value="' . (zen_get_buy_now_qty($specials_products->fields['products_id'])) . '" maxlength="6" size="4" /><br />' . zen_draw_hidden_field('products_id', $specials_products->fields['products_id']) . zen_image_submit(BUTTON_IMAGE_IN_CART, BUTTON_IN_CART_ALT) . '</div>';

but I get the same error message

[Ajeh]

Try this and stick $lc_button where you want the buy now button to appear:

    if (zen_has_product_attributes($random_specials_sidebox_product->fields['products_id'])) {
      // show a more link for attributes
      $lc_button = '<a href="' . zen_href_link(zen_get_info_page($random_specials_sidebox_product->fields['products_id']), 'cPath=' . zen_get_generated_category_path_rev($random_specials_sidebox_product->fields['master_categories_id']) . '&products_id=' . $random_specials_sidebox_product->fields['products_id']) . '">' . MORE_INFO_TEXT . '</a>';
    } else {
      // show an add to cart choose one or the other
      $lc_button = '<a href="' . zen_href_link($_GET['main_page'], zen_get_all_get_params(array('action')) . 'action=buy_now&products_id=' . $random_specials_sidebox_product->fields['products_id']) . '">' . zen_image_button(BUTTON_IMAGE_BUY_NOW, BUTTON_BUY_NOW_ALT, 'class="listingBuyNowButton"') . '</a>';
    } 

[ctcentralinfo]

That did the trick, thanks.

[Ajeh]

Thanks for the update ...

I thought the original code I posted could help you peice together the parts you needed, but it can get a little confusing at first ...

Glad that you have it working now ...