Date Required Default Date

[nielsnorby]

I would like to have a date required field in the quanity on confirmation page. I have the field now and it defaults to the current date of the order. What I would like is for it to default a date 3-5 weekdays ahead. Purpose is I run a trophy website. www.sdtrophy.comand when people order, I need time to engrave and ship out. I don't want a customer to feel they can get it shipped the same day. Any help would be appreciated.

Cheers and Happy New Year

Niels

[TraceyG]

Hi Niels,

To do that:

- browse to your 'site' folder (usually 'c:\program files\actinic v8\sites\Site1' and open 'ShoppingCart.pl' in a text editor such as notepad
- search for:

$Date[0] = $now[3];

and replace it with:

$Date[0] = $now[3] + 1;

This will give you today plus 1 (ie tomorrow's date). Change the '+ 1' to the required number of days ahead that you want it to default to.

- save the file and update your site.

Note that this will only work with the 'Quantity on confirmation page' shopping mode as you want.

[nielsnorby]

Thank you,

That worked, one more question, is there a way to change it if it falls over the weekend. I.E. I want a minimum of + 3 working days, If they order on a Thursday with this method it defaults to a Sunday Date, I would like it to default to a Tuesday date (3 working days ahead).

Thank you again

Niels

[TraceyG]

Hi Niels,

I will have to ask our development team if that is possible as there is probably some complicated perl code that needs to be worked out.

[nielsnorby]

OK, keep me posted.

Happy New Year!
Niels

[NormanRouxel]

That would require some Perl programming. You'd have to work out what day of the week it is then set the new date accordingly. The following will set $dayofweek to be 0 through 6 (sunday through saturday).

my $dayofweek = (localtime)[6];

and this will return an delivery day offset depending on the day of the week (sunday,...saturday).

my $deliverydays = (4,3,3,3,5,4,3)[(localtime)[6]];

so you could use

$Date[0] = $now[3] + (4,3,3,3,5,4,3)[(localtime)[6]];

You should adjust that list of numbers to suit your own requirements. And forget public holidays, etc - way too complex to add in.

[nielsnorby]

The Great Norman!

I feel honored, after reading so many of your suggestions! Let me take a moment to say thank you for all the help you have given me in the past through this forum.

So it looks like what i will need to do is the following:
open up the shoppingcart.pl and post the my $dayofweek = (localtime)[6];
my $deliverydays = (4,3,3,3,5,4,3)[(localtime)[6]]; and then
$Date[0] = $now[3] + (4,3,3,3,5,4,3)[(localtime)[6]];

Is that correct?

Niels

[NormanRouxel]

You just need the one line

$Date[0] = $now[3] + (4,3,3,3,5,4,3)[(localtime)[6]];

My post above shows two methods. Firstly, how to get the day of week in case you wanted to write your own code. The final one is what to use instead of Tracy's post #2.

[NormanRouxel]

Hang on. I've just looked at Tracy's #2 suggestion. This adds one to the day and will fail if you're on the last day of the month. So will my suggestion as the 33rd of December is no use to anyone.

[NormanRouxel]

OK try this. Back up ShoppingCart.pl first.

Go to Design / Library / Variables. Right-click Other and choose New Variable.
Set the following

Name: DeliveryDays
Description: List of comma separated number of days that delivery will take. One per day starting with Sunday,,,,,,Saturday.
Prompt: DeliveryDays
Group: Other
Place of Setting: Site
Tab Name: Properties
Type: Text
Allow Empty Value: Unchecked
Inital Value: Use Parent
Top Level Value: 5,4,4,4,6,5,4

OK Out

Look in ShoppingCart.pl for the block

		my $now = time;
		my @now = gmtime($now);

Immediately below this add the lines

		my $deliverydays = (<actinic:variable name="DeliveryDays" encoding="perl" selectable="false" />)[$now[6]];		# get our delivery no of days
		$now = $now + ($deliverydays * 86400);			# multiply by seconds to create new date
		my @now = gmtime($now);

so the whole block looks like

		my $now = time;
		my @now = gmtime($now);
		my $deliverydays = (<actinic:variable name="DeliveryDays" encoding="perl" selectable="false" />)[$now[6]];		# get our delivery no of days
		$now = $now + ($deliverydays * 86400);			# multiply by seconds to create new date
		my @now = gmtime($now);
		$Date[0] = $now[3];
		$Date[1] = $now[4] + 1;
		$Date[2] = $now[5] + 1900;

When you need to alter your delivery days, go to Settings / Site Options / Proprerties / Other
and change to contain your delivery days for (Sunday,,,,,,Saturday).
Make sure you have 7 comma separated numbers.

[nielsnorby]

Norman,

That did not seem to work, it gave me an internal error and bounced me to a google search page.

[NormanRouxel]

OK. I've fixed it and amended post #10 above.

[nielsnorby]

OK,

It seemed to fix the internal error, but when I increased the delievery days by one to check, it came up with a Saturday date.

this is what I posted and uploaded:

my $now = time;
		my @now = gmtime($now);
		my $deliverydays = (5,4,4,4,6,5,4)[$now[6]];		# get our delivery no of days
		$now = $now + ($deliverydays * 86400);			# multiply by seconds to create new date
		my @now = gmtime($now);
		$Date[0] = $now[3];
		$Date[1] = $now[4] + 1;
		$Date[2] = $now[5] + 1900;

[NormanRouxel]

It is up to you to set these offsets correctly. They are the offsets to use depending on what the present day is (Sunday,,,,,,Saturday).

[NormanRouxel]

I've amended post #10 above to allow you to keep these offsets in a Variable. This way you won't have to alter the Perl when you need to change days.