Automatically Add Products to the cart via URL?

[jonhurlock]

Hi,

I was wondering if there is a way so, if one of my customers, is browsing through another part of my site. e.g. a wordpress blog, they can click a link, which would automatically add a product to cart, and forward them to the products page or the checkout.

Any Help would be appreciated.

Regards

Jon

[sanguisdesign]

I happen to have answered that question ealeir today here http://www.zen-cart.com/forum/showpo...08&postcount=8

[yellow1912]

If it's a product with no attribute, you dont need a form, just a link is fine

like:

http://linktostore.com/index.php?action=buy_now&products_id=1

[sanguisdesign]

awesome I have been school and learned something

[quixotic]

This doesn't seem to work. At least with my products. I'm guessing it's because they have attributes (ie. size/color). Anyway to do this via URL for products with attributes?

[MattyMatt]

This doesn't seem to work. At least with my products. I'm guessing it's because they have attributes (ie. size/color). Anyway to do this via URL for products with attributes?

You could embed a hidden form in your HTML like

<form id="form_1" action="http://linktostore.com/index.php?main_page=product_info&amp;cPath=22&amp;products_id=44&amp;number_of_uploads=0&amp;action=add_product" method="POST">
<input type="radio" name="id[1]" value="16" id="attrib-1-16" />
</form>

and then make a link

<a href="javascript: document.getElementById('form_1').submit()">Buy this in blue.</a>

You need to go to your shop page, grab the HTML for the form of the item you are interested in, put in the attributes you want selected by looking for radio or <select . Then make sure the link refers to the correct form, so you are the one naming the form with an id, in this case form_1

Matt

[DrByte]

########################## answered the same question in post #2 above.

[moosesoom]

http://linktostore.com/index.php?action=buy_now&products_id=1

You're adding a product to cart by products_id, what I have to do is adding a product by products_model. Is there an easy way to do it or I have to read some php/mysql tutorial?

[sanguisdesign]

You're adding a product to cart by products_id, what I have to do is adding a product by products_model. Is there an easy way to do it or I have to read some php/mysql tutorial?

You would have to make custom code to use the model.
The reason that the product id woks is because thats how zen cart figures out what product to do and action with (display, add to cart .ect)
YOu would have to do more then read one manual you would have to know php and understand the Zen Cart Code base

[moosesoom]

It was a joke, I know PHP programming, I think I'll write a new page that receive model # from the remote configurator, than execute a query on products table to find that model# (just in case I can test if there's more than 1 record with it and return a warning message, or launch advanced_search page to list all products found), then extract the right products_id and finally add it to shopping cart.