Full Cart Summary workaround

[Kermy]

David,

I'd like to be able to add this functionality at some point, but at the moment I have too many other things to work on! Hopefully this patch won't be required for v8 (whenever it transpires), but we'll have to wait and see - but that still leaves a lot of v7 users who won't want to upgrade. I agree with you though, it would be a worthwhile alteration, and I'll notify you of any future changes.

[acshop]

VAT issue

Hi Graham,
Thanks for the reply - hopefully Actinic will get back soon!
Chris

http://www.homestyleshop.co.uk

[Bruce]

Kermy,

Would the information here help you ... http://knowledge.actinic.com/acatalo...ut.html#aKB729

Kind regards,

[Kermy]

Bruce

I have no idea why I've not realised its that simple. I've used that script change before, just forgot it contains VAT info as well as shipping. Couldn't see the wood for the trees, obviously

Cheers for pointing it out, I feel stupid but you've saved me a lot of head-scratching! Will look to get VAT working over the weekend.

[Goders]

Hi Graham,

After a manic week at work I've finally had time to work on the shopping cart. After susing out the custom pages that I'm using and a few tweaks here and there it seems to be working a treat!!

There is just one thing I have noticed which I would like some advice on. When the cart is empty I get "No items in basket" immediately followed by "View Basket" and "Checkout". Any Ideas how I can lower "View Basket" and "Checkout" without causing a large gap when products are added?

Many Thanks again for your help with getting me this far - its looking really good!!

[ambersoft]

My wife breaks everything...

Hi Graham,

Spent most of the day installing and customising this. It's great and many thanks for your efforts in creating it

However, my wife was doing some testing tonight and noticed that when she put a certain item into the cart the whole cart list dissappeared.

Looking at the item she entered it had " (double quotation marks) in it, used to signify inches.... when these items are removed from the cart the list appears again

Would it be possible to change the functionality to recognise these or is this just going to be a limitation of the code?

Thanks again for the code.

Garry

[Kermy]

Garry,

Not quite fair to blame your wife! My fault entirely. I'll patch it when I'm fixing the VAT issues this weekend.

Marc,

Find this line in actinicextras.js:

var emptyLine="No items in cart.";

Replace it with:

var emptyLine="<div style='margin-bottom:10px'>No items in cart.</div>";

That should create a 10 pixel gap between the message and the buttons - change the value to get the right height.

[Goders]

Hi Graham,

Thanks for looking at this again.

I was using an earlier version of the modified actinicextras.js so don't actually have the var emptyLine="No items in cart."; to modify.

None the less I modified it to include all the new changes and it works correctly, until I add items to the cart then remove them. After that it behaves as it used to with no spacing. I have also noticed that after the removal of items I generates error's complaing that '1' i null or not an object.

Is anyone else getting problems with adding and removing items?

[Kermy]

You'll have to change your perl files to the newest version aswell, for it to work correctly. Do this, upload and try again.

[Goders]

Hi,

I thought I had already, but re-done the changes again from my original backups then uploaded as suggested and now it is working fine. Funny how things don't always go to plan first time.

All I need to do now is fix the the sizing issue when the price reaches £1000.00+ and I'll be more than happy. Do you know if the price can be fixed not to push too far to the right?

Thank you very much, this really has made a difference to the site!!

[Goders]

Hi Graham,

I've been thinking about the display layout. How easy would it be to code the layout to be seen as follows:

2x £xxxx.xx
Product Description

I'm thinking this way it will be alot easier to control the width of what is being displayed an allow a much more meaningful description name and allow for various price lenghts.

Just an idea that I'd like to explore - all I need is the javascript expertise.

[NormanRouxel]

You don't need JavaScript expertise. Graham uses his own NETQUOTEVAR's VAR:<name> so all you need to is to amend the line

var itemLine="<tr><td valign='top'>VAR:QUANTITYx </td><td><a href='VAR:LINK'>VAR:TITLE...</a></td><td align='right' valign='top'>VAR:PRICE</td></tr>"

to

var itemLine="<tr><td valign='top'>VAR:QUANTITYx </td><td align='right' valign='top'>VAR:PRICE</td></tr><tr><td colspan=2><a href='VAR:LINK'>VAR:TITLE...</a></td></tr>"

[Goders]

Cool - Cheers Norman.

Guess its all about understanding how this all fits together. I've now made the changes and almost very happy with the results!

I've now got things pretty much how I want them. There is just one last thing that would make me very very happy. The VAT still pushes too far to the right. I'm using this code:

var vatLine="<tr><td colspan='2'><b>VAT</b></td><td align='left'><b>VAR:VAT</b></td></tr>"

Now it's set to align='left' but for some reason it's still pushing outside of the shopping cart. Forgive my ignorance, but whats needed to put the VAT (£'s) inline with the Total (£'s)?

Many thanks, this is looking really good!

[wjcampbe]

How many columns do you have in your new layout? What does colspan=2 mean?

hth

[Goders]

Hi Bill,

The colspan=2 was from the original code that Norman wrote and allows you to have 2 columns. I have since tweaked this and placed some of the code into tables which has allowed me to get the format that I wanted also keeping control of the price layout problem.

Please let me know what you guys think of the basket layout now. It would be nice to get some feed back.

Graham,

Many thanks again for coming up with this great idea and for helping me out when things weren’t going quite as they should!! I'm sure you can figure out what I've done, but if you want the code for you library let me know and I'll email it across.

Thanks again!

A well chuffed Goders!!