$products_name

[IATIA]

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On the main product page (tpl_modules_main_product_image.php), I have a 360 view of a toy via a cluged Image Handler4. This is referenced through ZenCart's "$products_name" or the mysqlDB via ZenCart's "products_id". No problem.

I could not get any 'EZ-Pages' to play with php properly so, I had to cluge together my own setup.

I have a link (echo '<a href="Large360view.php">Larger 360 View</a>';) to a 'Large360view.php' file and I cannot get "$products_name" or "products_id" to come over and play, ergo I have been forced, at this time, to brute force my way to the information in 'Large360view.php' through;

$page = $_SERVER['HTTP_REFERER'];
$ID = substr($page, strrpos($page, "&products_id=")+13); 

It is working, but it is definitely not a clean and durable line of code.

Surly there is a better way?

I have tried $_SERVER, $_GET, $GLOBALS, global, $SESSION, etc..

Everything is "NULL" when I am in Large360view.php. I get nothing to follow me.

Any help would be appreciated.

link here

[mc12345678]

If you have to href your way to the other software, then attach the parameters already available onto your link, which would be better generated using zen_href_link.

Ie:

<a href="<?php echo zen_href_link(FILENAME_LARGE_360_VIEW, zen_get_all_get_params(), $request_type); ?>" ><?php echo TEXT_LARGER_360_VIEW; ?></a>

With a new file in your includes/extra_defines that has a define for FILENAME_LARGE_360_VIEW to your filename.

Then when the link is generated, it will include the get parameters that existed before clicking the link.

If there are any expected that are also known to not be included, then add them to an array as a parameter to the zen_get_all_get_params function.

Then, once in your php file, read the $_GET['products_id'] validating that it is set and then when using the value cast it to integer. Then can use ZC functions if you have included: includes/application_top.php above the use of the function in your file.

[IATIA]

So, enter the code exactly as is and make sure FILENAME_LARGE_360_VIEW and TEXT_LARGER_360_VIEW are defined.

(i don't know how many times i have entered code to find out i had to rewrite everything but the structure)

[mc12345678]

As is in "html space" meaning, the a tag is html. If using a variable to set that "line", then would need to quote and as necessary escape quotes so that they remain as desired on the page source.

But yes, the php provided should keep what you have from the product page and make it accessible in your 360 file. I was thinking that perhaps the zenid shouldn't be passed with the other parameters, but then if a customer chose the product_info page as their landing page, the link may not have the zenid in it as would be expected for each first link. Hmm, maybe on second thought since zen_href_link evaluates the need of adding the zenid, perhaps it should be excluded. So
zen_get_all_get_params() probably should be:
zen_get_all_get_params(array('zenid')) unless you have some very specific need to have zenid on the get/url that won't be handled/addressed by the remainder of ZC processing...

[IATIA]

I think this is going to do it. I get a status on the link. Right now, the page "Large360view.php" cannot be found. Where should it be located?

~Store/index.php?main_page=Large360view.php&cPath=14_15&products_id=20

[mc12345678]

Sorry, glad you did ask before, wish I had reviewed the zen_href_link function further.

Need to make it a static link and the filename needs to include the extension of '.php' (without the extra single quote:

<?php
define('FILENAME_LARGE_360_VIEW', 'Large360view.php');

Then the zen_href_link call:

zen_href_link(FILENAME_LARGE_360_VIEW, zen_get_all_get_params(array('zenid')), $request_type, true, true, true);

[IATIA]

Got it! Thanks!

[IATIA]

Went from this;

$page = $_SERVER['HTTP_REFERER'];
$ID = substr($page, strrpos($page, "&products_id=")+13); 

To this;

$ID = $_GET['products_id']; 

[DrByte]

Unless you need the attribute-hash on the products_id, use this for better security:

$ID = (int)$_GET['products_id'];

[IATIA]

Unless you need the attribute-hash on the products_id, use this for better security:

$ID = (int)$_GET['products_id'];

Done, Thanks!