passing parameters from poduct info page to shopping cart.

[gmartakis]

Hi,
I want to pass some parameters to shopping cart page. More specifically I want to pass productId from product info so the link when it goes to shopping cart changes something like that:

index.php?main_page=shopping_cart&cPath=36_42&products_id=103

instead of

index.php?main_page=shopping_cart

Could you please tell how to accoplish this?
Thank you

[RodG]

Hi,
I want to pass some parameters to shopping cart page. More specifically I want to pass productId from product info so the link when it goes to shopping cart changes something like that:

index.php?main_page=shopping_cart&cPath=36_42&products_id=103

instead of

index.php?main_page=shopping_cart

Could you please tell how to accoplish this?
Thank you

Sorry, but I'm not quite following what you are trying to do.

Exactly what is the problem that you are trying to solve?

Cheers
Rod

[gmartakis]

I'm trying to pass the product id parameter to http://www.domainexample.com/index.p...=shopping_cart in order to do same changes to the cart. I cannot get the Product id with $_GET[products_id]; or with a different way like $_SESSION[products_id];. Therefore I'm trying to find other ways to accomplish that. Could you help me?

[RodG]

I'm trying to pass the product id parameter to http://www.domainexample.com/index.p...=shopping_cart in order to do same changes to the cart. I cannot get the Product id with $_GET[products_id]; or with a different way like $_SESSION[products_id];. Therefore I'm trying to find other ways to accomplish that. Could you help me?

Apologies. I understand what it is you are asking for, the problem is I don't quite understand exactly why you feel/think there is a need to do this.

Feel free to tell me to mind my own business, or say it isn't important that I know, I don't have an problem with that.

It is simply because this is a very unusual request, that I can't help thinking that there may be another option open to you, something that doesn't require code hacking, and it would be amiss of me to help you down a path to possible further problems if there is no need to do so.

Cheers
Rod

[gmartakis]

Hi Rod,
I'm using a module stock by attributes my site is www.sellisbike.gr/demo and I would like to display for every option availability you can see my product info http://www.sellisbike.gr/demo/index....roducts_id=102 this is how I display my product_info page. I would like to do the same for my shopping cart but I cannot accomplish that if can pass the product id variable to the tpl_shopping_cart_default.php. Simple what I did is to copy a piece of code from the stock by attribute code and transform it the way I want to.

Now what I want from you is to tell me how I could pass product Id variable to shopping_cart page.
Please Reply ASAP.
Regards
Ioannis

[RodG]

Now what I want from you is to tell me how I could pass product Id variable to shopping_cart page.
Please Reply ASAP.
Regards
Ioannis

I've just taken a *very quick* look at the variables, etc available on the product_info page and didn't spot anything there that would be useful to you.

I do have another suggestion for you though, since you can't (apparently) pass this value *to* the shopping cart page, you could modify the shopping_cart page itself and perform a check on the HTTP_REFERER variable, which would read something like
http://yourdomain.com/index.php?main...roducts_id=102

You can then extract the product_id from the path and use it as needed.

I've no idea what repercussions you may experience as a result of what you are trying to do... For all i know there may not be any. I guess you'll find that out for yourself when the time comes. :)

lemme know if it does work though, because I'm somewhat curious. I really didn't see the point when you 1st asked, but now I've seen your page(s) I see where you are heading.. It could be useful if it works as expected.

The biggest 'problem' I see is that this will only work for the product as it is added to the cart.

Cheers
Rod

[gmartakis]

Thanks for the quick prompt Rod,
I will try this....I'm not sure how I'm going to do it. Anyway I have another problem that it's bothering me a lot since I created this site...
I'm trying to display manufacturer filter in product listing. But even if I enable it from the admin panel...the alpha sorter filter is showing what ever I do. I tried to fix it but with no luck.....any suggestions?
Regards
Ioannis

[RodG]

. I tried to fix it but with no luck.....any suggestions?

Sorry, none at this time.

Cheers
Rod.

ps. It might pay to open a new thread for this question. More people are likely to see it.

[gmartakis]

I did print what you said to my tpl_shopping_default.php page echo $_SERVER['HTTP_REFERER'];
it prints the URL of the product_info page....it's good...Well I dont know how to extract this values from this URL any advice would be great my friend...
Regards,
Ioannis

[gmartakis]

any advice here would be crusial here.
Thanks again
Regards
Ioannis