Display quantity in cart on product pages?

[robmackley]

Hi all

My customer has asked if their site can display the quantity of each product currently in the cart, next to each product on the site - apparently the Tesco shopping site works like this so you know whether the product you are looking at is in your cart already.

My immediate thought on this was no way as the product pages are static. However, it occurred to me that even though the pages are static they can still show live cart summary information.

So my question is, can (possibly using the same technology as the cart summary) you display next to each product on the site, something along the lines of '’$quantity’ of these in your cart'.

I'm pretty sure this can't be achieved with Actinic but I just wanted to ask the question before telling my customer.

[TraceyHand]

you could perhaps take a look at Kermy's minicart instead of the standard Actinic cart summary.
http://www.gbradley.co.uk/actinic
This would display actual orderlines in the cart rather than just totals.
It might be an option if no one comes up with a method of doing what your client is asking.

[robmackley]

Hi Tracey. Thanks for this.

You're right this would be an option (not ideal admittedly) if no can come up with solution.

Any other ideas much appreciated!