Configuring an item

[ladylara]

I have a website where my customers can order business cards. At the moment they go on to the site, fill out some form fields which in turn creates a print ready pdf and saves it to my server using there email address as a unique identifier. This is done using a combination of php and a mysql database.

How can i have a product in actinic (business cards) and then a link to configure the cards at the above website and tie it all up at the end so i know what card goes with what order.

Im guessing i will need to pass some kind of variable to the business card site which can be saved in the mysql database ?

Any Thoughts ?

Many Thanks

[NormanRouxel]

The problem with what you suggest is that Actinic doesn't know who the customer is until they start to check out and enter some personal details.

What might be worth investigating would be opening your PHP page as a popup within Actinic and when the card is complete using some JavaScript to populate a field back in the Actinic product page (via opener). You could use the Other Info field (change it from type=text to type=hidden) to hold the PDF ID for that product.

When you call the popup with your card designer, pass it the name of the Other Info field so it has a reference to store the result in.

[ladylara]

Thanks fo the advice, ive got it working now in a test situation. Just a quick question though. I want my popups to be in a different directory to the main site on my server but i cant seem to be able to put "\" in the popup file name box. Anyideas ?

[wjcampbe]

\ changes to / on a web address.

[NormanRouxel]

Actinic will never upload files anywhere but the acatalog directory. If you want Actinic to manage these files, you'll have to put up with this.