Attributes HOW-TO

[Kim]

Greg-

Zen Cart is not designed to be used piecemeal for taking orders. It is designed to *be* the ecomm site.

[westin]

Hi Kim,

So if I set things up so the Zen Cart is not used piecemeal, but is managing the whole site, is there a way to get it to do what I want (arbitrarily priced gift certificates, based upon user input)?

Thanks,

Greg
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[Kim]

Not at this time.

[Ajeh]

You could get trick with the product_info page ...

Make the Product a Gift Certificate for $1.00

Make the spot where price normally shows to read something else or blank when products_id = the Gift Certificate

Make the Add to Cart read something different than the current text so it looks more like you are selecting a Gift Certificate amount than a qty ...

Again, you are making changes based on products_id = XX

Then, the product _info page runs one way for regular products and another for other products ...

If you do the Listings ... you would need to adjust the display for those too based on products_id

Takes a bit of work, but you can use the overrides for most all of this ... :)

[magistrate]

I read through this thread and couldn't find anything that specifically addressed my problem...

I'm using Zen Cart as an event registration system, and so far I've been able to do almost everything I need to do with it. (These forums have been a tremendous help ^_^.) But I'm still running into a problem I can't seem to resolve.

For the even we're testing this for, we need the registrants to agree to a set of terms and conditions. The idea we've been working with is to have a checkbox attribute alogn the lines of "I have read and agreed to the terms and conditions" and putting the actual terms in the product description -- as is shown here. However, the bit we added to the end ("My checking the box (above) verifies that I have read an agree to the terms stated above. I understand that un-checked entries will not be accepted.") is pretty clunky, and gives me a headache when I think about charges going through without terms being accepted.... Is there a way to require that the box be checked so that the order will not be placed otherwise?

Thanks!

Anna

[Ajeh]

You could try using the TEXT as required ...

This does not guarantee they said yes but the had to mark an x in the box or something to add the product to the cart this way

[westin]

Ajeh and Kim,

I think that what I'm going to do to work around this limitation is to set up the gift certificates as being priced at $0, with price attributes $1, $2, $3, $5, $10, $20, $30, $50, $100, $200, $300, $500, $1000. Then I can write a script that takes user input of any amount (up to $2221, I guess, unless I add more attributes), selects which attributes need to be selected, and submits that to Zen Cart. Perhaps I should do all of this within the Zen Cart framework, but that framework really doesn't fit my site.

Thanks for the help, again. Hopefully at some point I'll be back in the fold, using Zen Cart as it's meant to be used, and having it do what I want.

Greg
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[magistrate]

Originally posted by Ajeh@Feb 7 2006, 01:03 AM
You could try using the TEXT as required ...

This does not guarantee they said yes but the had to mark an x in the box or something to add the product to the cart this way

I think that's what we'll do, then, and validate by hand.

[monkeymadness]

Yay I reached the end of the thread!! woohoo... but totally in shock my issue isn't covered..

...How do I change the colour of the attribute comment?...(bright red at the moment)

Ive searched through my stylesheet.css but can't seem to find anything..and I cant even view my own source (!?!) to find out what its classed as (know its off topic but if anyone could point me in the right direction for viewing my source i'd really appreciate it!!

thanks in advance to all you lovely experienced zenners

[sydney@scrappingdesigns]

Hi All...I swear I searched, I did :) I made it thru 22 pages of replies before I skipped thru a few pages and Im stumped. My deal is this:

I have a site that is for scrapbooking. Until I get better at it, ALL of my stuff will be free. I have uploaded images and set up products and created attributes for them. I've uploaded my zipped file to the /download directory and I have a green circle in front of my filename, so all is good.

After doing all of this, no link shows up on my page. I've gone thru the step by step procedure here: http://www.zen-cart.com/modules/xoopsfaq/i...php?cat_id=8#71
and Im still at a loss.

On a side note..is there no way to have a direct download of a free product, without going thru the shopping cart?

Thanks for ANY help, I appreciate it,

Sydney