Add items to shopping cart from Flash ?

[fatalparadox]

I need to add an item to the shopping cart from a flash file.
Any ideas on what to use within my getURL statement ?

ZenCart Newbie Here sorry.

[DrByte]

You'll need to tell your flash app to POST the products_id and cart_quantity to your Zen Cart product page, with &action=add_product on the URL.

[fatalparadox]

I understand what you mean, but I do not know the full URL I would use.

My customers site is:

https://www.lillyscollection.com/ZeCart/

Thanks for your help !

[kuroi]

Your client's images are in desperate need of optimization. At circa 2MB each, they are roughly 1,000 times the size thumbnails should be and thus take 1,000 times the time to load and 1,000 times both your client's and their visitors bandwidth to be viewed.

[fatalparadox]

Yeah the customer added them, we are going to delete them all and optimize them.

The URL I am using to try and add things to the shopping cart from flash is:

http://www.lillyscollection.com/ZenC...d=12&quanity=1

Doesn't work though

[DrByte]

You'll need to tell your flash app to POST the products_id and cart_quantity to your Zen Cart product page, with &action=add_product on the URL.

The URL I am using to try and add things to the shopping cart from flash is:

http://www.lillyscollection.com/ZenC...d=12&quanity=1

Doesn't work though

You need to POST the values, not pass them on the URL as GET values. Only the action belongs in the URL.

[fatalparadox]

Sorry I don't understand. Could you give me an example ?

[kuroi]

I'd recommend that you look at some of the product listing pages and product_info page to get a sense of the sort of data that needs to be passed in the URL. In particular note that the page is generally product_info rather than shopping cart. Zen Cart will determine for itself (based on an Admin switch) whether it is appropriate to invoke the shopping cart after adding items to it, or whether it should go onto the page that you specify.

However, DrByte's point is that even if you get all the parameters passed in the URL correct, that won't be sufficient. You will still need to pass the cart_quantity and products_id via the $_POST variable (please note that "s" in products_id).

Not being a Flash expert, I can't tell you how to do this, or even whether it can be done (though I would be very surprised if it couldn't).

[Kim]

And this is probably a silly question, but why do you think you need to use the flash?

[fatalparadox]

We are building a Build-A-Bag section that is designed in Flash, the customer chooses a bag, uploads their picture and it emails the design to the client. It also needs to add a custom bag to the shopping cart.