Conditional code - how to?

[twdhosting]

Let me try and explain what I am trying to achieve...

I want 2 different "contact us" buttons per product - number1 will be for general product queries on products that have the status "add to cart" and number2 will be a "order a free sample" button that will be for items marked "call for price".

I plan to clone the "Ask Us a Question" MOD in order to achieve this...

So I will have ASK_A_QUESTION1 and ASK_A_QUESTION2

I want to be able to call either button depending on the products status (add to cart or not) the current code which is global is:

</ul>
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<br />
<span id="productQuestions" class="biggerText">
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<b><?php echo '<a href="' . zen_href_link(FILENAME_ASK_A_QUESTION, 'products_id=' . $_GET['products_id']) . '">' . ASK_A_QUESTION . '</a>'; ?></b>
</span>
<br class="clearBoth" />

How would I make it so that FILENAME_ASK_A_QUESTION was shown for cart items and FILENAME_ASK_A_QUESTION_SAMPLE was shown on "call for price items".

Thanks!

Tony

[hem]

</ul>
<br />
<br />
<span id="productQuestions" class="biggerText">
<br />
<b><?php echo '<a href="' . zen_href_link(FILENAME_ASK_A_QUESTION, 'products_id=' . $_GET['products_id']) . '">' . ASK_A_QUESTION . '</a>&nbsp;'. zen_href_link(FILENAME_ASK_A_QUESTION_SAMPLE, 'products_id=' . $_GET['products_id']) . '">' . ASK_A_QUESTION_SAMPLE . '</a>'; ?></b>
</span>
<br class="clearBoth" />

Should do it- make sure you define your FILENAME_ASK_A_QUESTION_SAMPLE and ASK_A_QUESTION_SAMPLE variables.

[twdhosting]

Thanks for that but it doesn't seem to working quite right..

Firstly the ASK_US_A_QUESTION_SAMPLE is appearing on the site as text and not a link and secondly it doesn't seem to be conditional depending on "add to cart" or "phone for price"?

You can see better here http://www.valcarr.co.uk/website/ind...roducts_id=278

The "Ask a Question about this product" link is 100&#37; correct - this is for general product enquiries and should only show on products that can be added to the cart, but the second link is text and should only show on products that are marked as "phone for price" - if you see what I mean!

Thanks

Tony

[twdhosting]

Okay - I fixed the link problem as follows:

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<center>
<br />
<span id="productQuestions" class="biggerText">
<br />
<b><?php echo '<a href="' . zen_href_link(FILENAME_ASK_A_QUESTION, 'products_id=' . $_GET['products_id']) . '">' . ASK_A_QUESTION . '</a>&nbsp;<a href="'. zen_href_link(FILENAME_ASK_A_QUESTION_SAMPLE, 'products_id=' . $_GET['products_id']) . '">' . ASK_A_QUESTION_SAMPLE . '</a>'; ?></b>
</span>
</center>
<br class="clearBoth" />

There was a missing <a href=" - no problem but the conditional thing has me stumped?

[twdhosting]

There must be a simple way of doing this with an IF statement - my php is fairly poor - so any help would be appreciated! :)

[Ajeh]

If you peek at the available functions, in the:
/includes/functions/functions_lookup.php

you would find a handy dandy function that can look up any field in either the products table or the products_description table ...

 * Return any field from products or products_description table
 * Example: zen_products_lookup('3', 'products_date_added');
 */
  function zen_products_lookup($product_id, $what_field = 'products_name', $language = '') { 

You might use this to evaluate the field: product_is_call

this would return the 2 possible values of:
0 NO
1 YES

See if that doesn't help you out ...

[hem]

Let me check the "Call for price" logic and get back to you in the morning

[hem]

First off lets make an obvious break between the two links. Change the code at

</a>&nbsp;<a href 

to

</a>&nbsp;|&nbsp;<a href 

Though am I right in thinking that you only want one or the other link to appear depending on whether it is a "Call For Price"???

[hem]

Okay, new code block:

</ul>
<center>
<br />
<span id="productQuestions" class="biggerText">
<br />
<b>
<?php
if($_GET['product_is_call'])
 echo '<a href="'. zen_href_link(FILENAME_ASK_A_QUESTION_SAMPLE, 'products_id=' . $_GET['products_id']) . '">' . ASK_A_QUESTION_SAMPLE . '</a>'; 
else
 echo '<a href="' . zen_href_link(FILENAME_ASK_A_QUESTION, 'products_id=' . $_GET['products_id']) . '">' . ASK_A_QUESTION . '</a>';
?></b>
</span>
</center>
<br class="clearBoth" />

I'm guessing that $_GET['product_is_call'] is accessible- sorry don't have the mod you do but do a copy and paste and see if it works. If it doesn't I'll look at the code required to access the 'product_is_call' field.

[DrByte]

I'm guessing that $_GET['product_is_call'] is accessible- sorry don't have the mod you do but do a copy and paste and see if it works. If it doesn't I'll look at the code required to access the 'product_is_call' field.

... or look at Ajeh's post ...