Php - Performing A Calculation In Actinic

[davie_ne1]

I know that in v8 you can now use php when generating a page

IS it possible to use php to do a calculation with a custom variable that I have created ?

For example

I have created a custom variable
<actinic:variable name="CUST_UNITS_PER_OUTER" />
Which is the number of units per product

For each product I want actinic (when generating the site) to divide the retail price by the number of units in the product.

i.e

sales price = £10
Number units = 5

Cost per unit = £2

[NormanRouxel]

Something like

<actinic:block php="true">
$units = '<actinic:variable name="CUST_UNITS_PER_OUTER" encoding="perl" selectable="false" />';	// load as string in case variable empty
if ( $units != '' ) 
  {
  $cost = '<actinic:variable name="TaxInclusivePrice" encoding="perl" selectable="false" />';	// load as string in case variable empty
  $cost = preg_replace('/£|,/', '', $cost);					// remove any £ and ,
  $unitcost = $cost / $units;							// do the arithmetic
  printf(' Unit Cost £%.2f', $unitcost);
 }
</actinic:block>

You may need to change TaxInclusivePrice to TaxExclusivePrice, depending on your setup.

[davie_ne1]

Thanks for the quick reply Norman

Your solution just returns a value of £0.00

tried changing to tax inc & tax ex but same result.

I am using no tax in my pricing if this helps

I also tried just to diplay the values of

<Actinic:Variable Name="TaxExclusivePrice"/>
<actinic:variable name="TaxExclusivePriceAlt" />
<actinic:variable name="TaxExclusivePrice" />

But they all display nothing .... where am I going wrong

[davie_ne1]

update:

I changed the variable to

actinic:variable name="ProductPriceRaw"

and it works great - thanks

Am I right in thinking that I would not be able to do the same function but instead of the standard retail price I want to use customer specific pricing

I only use 1 pricing group for the trade account holders called "trade"

[NormanRouxel]

It works for me. You have to put it in the correct place. I tested my code within the Layout: Product Price Including Tax.

You can add echo statements to the code to output some diagnostic info.

E.g.

echo 'XXX' . $cost . 'XXX';

then search the source of the generated page for XXX to see what was generated.

[NormanRouxel]

If you use ProductPriceRaw you won't need the line

$cost = preg_replace('/£|,/', '', $cost); // remove any £ and ,

As to trade pricing. This is generated at run-time by Perl scripts. You won't have access to these at page generation time with PHP. You'd need to use a client-side JavaScript system in that case.

[davie_ne1]

As to trade pricing. This is generated at run-time by Perl scripts. You won't have access to these at page generation time with PHP. You'd need to use a client-side JavaScript system in that case.

Thanks for the info norman

How do I use a client-side JavaScript system ???