Dynamic Price Updater

[Chrome]

Thanks!

Forgot to mention that at present the updater isn't currently currency-aware... If there is interest I will update that

This means that if your currency symbol is anything but £ you need to open the jscript_updater.php file and set the UPDATER_CURRENCY_SYMBOL constant to your currency symbol (e.g. $)

You can also alter the displayed text by changing the UPDATER_PREFIX_TEXT constant

Dan

[HeathenMagic]

Wow! That looks great. Definitely will be an essential mod.

[Ajeh]

Looking nice ...

Have you a solution to when coming from the Shopping Cart and attributes are already set so the price isn't starting at the original base but at the settings already set in the dropdowns?

[Chrome]

Looking nice ...

Have you a solution to when coming from the Shopping Cart and attributes are already set so the price isn't starting at the original base but at the settings already set in the dropdowns?

Hey now that's a great idea... I will look into it

I'm trying to keep this mod as simple as possible (1 file, no adjustments) but I reckon that should be doable... I'll get the radio/check boxes working then I'll get onto a 'memory' for added products

Thanks for the feedback... Looks like this might be worth building on

Dan

[Ajeh]

Most definitely worth building ... many would like to see something like this work ...

[Chrome]

That's good to hear... I genuinely thought it would be one of those things that only clients of ours would want lol

Good news is I can update pre-selected attributes fairly easily... Should have that implemented over the weekend along with, hopefully, support for the other attribute types

Watch this space and thanks to all for the positive feedback (especially at this early stage)

Dan

[Chrome]

I've updated the updater to handle previously set attributes (e.g. a customer clicking from their shopping cart)... As before the updater doesn't care where its values come from; it just 'reads' the page (sorta)

One thing to note is that if you add a product to the cart then revisit that product through the normal channels (i.e. not clicking from the cart) the price will show as the starting price and the updater will not attempt to reconstruct the values in the cart... I consider this to be natural enough behaviour... A product with attributes can be ordered many times with different attributes for each shopping cart item... The updater respects this

The link for the mod is http://chrome.me.uk/PriceUpdater.zip

A working version is here http://www.studio5.uk.com/index.php?...&products_id=3 (this is always up-to-date because it's my testing ground for this)

Dan

[voltage]

I genuinely thought it would be one of those things that only clients of ours would want lol

No way! I am so glad to see this feature. Eventually this should be part of the core code as it doesn't make sense to force customers to do the math themselves (or have to add it to the cart to figure it out).

Thanks a ton. I will implement it and report my results.

On your test site, I found that if I added something to the cart (i.e. $8 base price, $30 with attributes), and then followed the cart link back to the product page, the attributes are still selected, but only base price shows until you make a new selection.