Attribute Values

[fairestcape]

What are you trying to do with that value. i see it is a numerical value. are you trying to use it to perform some additional calculation(s)?

[maxell6230]

What are you trying to do with that value. i see it is a numerical value. are you trying to use it to perform some additional calculation(s)?

Hi I need the values to calculate X x Y to get a price and display in the cart, I have got everyhting else to work I just need to get the figures from a text attrribute field.

maxell

[fairestcape]

Hi I need the values to calculate X x Y to get a price and display in the cart, I have got everyhting else to work I just need to get the figures from a text attrribute field.

maxell

Get in touch with SWGUY (Scott Wilson). He has developed better systems for calculating values using attributes.

If you use a TEXT input, then the value will be recognised as text. If a customer puts an alpha character into the field, or a "string" that is not strictly a number, then you will get errors, and probably confuse your customers. As it is a TEXT field, designed to accept both alpha and numeric input (which it interprets as TEXT anyway), you risk the result of a NaN occurrence (Not a Number) in your subsequent calculations.

[maxell6230]

I have seen the software guys stuff, the thing is the mod is so close to working. If I use drop down boxes it gets the value fine and works really well. It just if I use a text box the value does not seem to be in shopping_cart.php. Regarding the NaN error, the user cannot continue to the checkout until a correct numerical value is entered, so this would not be an issue. The reason I need the value in shopping_cart.php is because to display the correct price based on X x Y I have to make a calculation other wise the value in the unit column is incorrect but as I say this all works fine when using dropdown boxes, I must be able to get the value of the text box from somewhere.
Maxell