Sending a Quantity to the Shopping Cart

[gigi]

Hi, I use zen cart a little different than most people. I create my own sites, and only use the shopping cart portion of zen cart. It usually works well, but right now I am trying to send the quantity of the product to be purchased to the shopping cart, but when you get to the shopping cart, no matter what the user selects, the quantity remains 1 in the shopping cart. The site I am having problems with is:
http://www.dvrkits.com.

The page I am working on is http://wwwldvrkits.com/test.php. I am feeding different prices to the shopping cart according to the quantities they choose. To do this I added a pricing table, but I will also need to feed the price to the shopping cart. I am looking for a file that takes the information from the form. I think this is application_top.php, but before I start fooling with the pricing, I would like to get the quantities to feed right to the shopping cart. The is, if the customer choosed a quantity of 7, I would like the shopping cart to reflect that. For now the pricing doesn't change because I haven't added that to the code yet.

[kobra]

I looked at your site....

Is there a reason that you can describe as to why this has worked before and now not? Is there something different?

JMO You are spending some time trying to do your link thing when you could spend this time making ZenCart look like your site. You would then enjoy the benefits afforded from the ZenCart script, like inventory controll, customer information, emailing your customers, and many more.

If you have not used the new almost tableless version 1.3.X you owe it to yourself and or clients to have a look.

[gigi]

I do have a site that uses zen cart fully, but I don't really want that for this site. I am making modifications to the zen cart code because it doesnt have everything I need. For example, I want to have different prices for the same item depending on how many items you order. I don't see how I could do this with zen cart, but I dont want to reinvent the wheel and have to create a shopping cart from scratch, so I'm trying to use as much as I can from zen cart. I don't want a percentage off either. Each product has 3 different pricing levels. Perhaps I might end up having to build a shopping cart from scratch. Changing one function means having to change many files and sometimes it is difficult to figure out what to change.

Anyways, thank you for your help,

Gigi

[kobra]

For example, I want to have different prices for the same item depending on how many items you order. I don't see how I could do this with zen car

For this See 'Quantity Pricing' in the admin > catalog > Products Price Manager > towards the bottom you can add Qty discounts

Edit the information min qty > discount value in $?.?? > select insert or update(?)
You can add multiple Qty Discounts

Now look at the item in your store.

I hope this is what you were refering to??

Now sit back and ponder why you are not using the full cart???