Free sample product request with product listing

[johnabs]

I am developing a website for a wallpaper retailer. The site is hosted and everything is working fine.

Now my client need to add a Free Sample Request feature with each product. They will charge say 50p for each sample. Adding an additional product for each product and setting the price individually is not practical. So I am trying to implement this feature.

Is there any suggestions please guys. I am almost lost! I am using Actinic Business Ver 9.0.4. I was thinking of using some PHP scripting or even javascript to re-write the cookie for the shopping basket. I know it is not the proper solution.

Any thoughts are highly appreciated.

Thank you guys.


John

[Chunkford]

Is it free, or not? you can't charge 50p and say it's free.

If it's free then you can just create a form to send an email.
If you are charging then it needs to be a product, or an attribute which will require further work. Have a look at csv importing, that should ease the burden.

[NormanRouxel]

even javascript to re-write the cookie for the shopping basket

The shopping cart isn't held in a cookie (that's just a summary of the item count and total) but is held in a .session file on the server. It's not likely that you'll be able to tinker with this file without considerable experience of how the megabyte or so of Perl cart scripts work.

You may be able to do this by importing a file that adds this capability to your existing products. Try making a product that has the feature the way you want it. Then export the catalog and look at the file generated and compare what's output for that product against a plain one.

[NormanRouxel]

I remembered that I'd done this before and it can be done fairly simply without Perl or importing.

I've posted it as a separate thread as it may be of use to others.

[johnabs]

Hi NormanRouxel,

Thank you for that..!! That work great on the test environment. Still to apply on the actual production. Thanks a lot for the quick solution.

John

[johnabs]

Is it free, or not? you can't charge 50p and say it's free.

Sorry about the confusion. The existing solution was email based.

The solution 'NormanRouxel' suggested worked great.

Thank you for your feedback.

John

[Chunkford]

Glad you got it sorted!