tracking orders

[gabrielcrowe]

i'm writing tracking code in php. my php logs orders to a mysql database, all is dandy, however...

NETQUOTEVAR:PRODUCTNAME which appears in act_shoppingcartxml.html

is the iterating variable i want to use, tracking every time that item appears in a cart. this NETQUOTEVAR:PRODUCTNAME contains a link too, and html. is there a similar netquotevar without the link?

or is there a better way to track the name of a product, as someone purchses it?

[Kermy]

Can't see a usable variable in the advanced user guide that displays the product name only in the shoppingCartXml template. Can't you just use strip_tags() to get at the raw product name?

[gabrielcrowe]

i did,

i pass variables to my loggin code like this:

<script src="/insert.php?qprodname=NETQUOTEVAR:PRODUCTNAME&qprodid=NETQUOTEVAR:PRODREF" type="text/javascript"></script>

probably not teh smartest way to do it, but i couldnt think of any other way to do it.

however, NETQUOTEVAR:PRODUCTNAME has double speechmarks in it. and wont go through the url properly.

edit: and i cant find the code that puts them in, anywhere!

[Kermy]

What about something like

<script>
var name = ('NETQUOTEVAR:PRODUCTNAME').replace(/(<([^>]+)>)/ig,'');
document.write('<img src="/insert.php?qprodname='+name+'&qprodid=NETQUOTEVAR:PRODREF" style="height:1px;width:1px" />')
</script>

[gabrielcrowe]

javascript, its picky about single or double quotes? which one is favoured?

[gabrielcrowe]

holy crabcakes. it works.

you're a hero. i'd not thought of using an image.

[Kermy]

Either single or double is fine, i tend to use double quotes for HTML tags and single for JS strings but it really doesn't matter.

Glad it works