External product integrated into Actinic

[concretehelium]

Hello,

I have developed a system whereby visitors to the website can create a CD with their own tracks selected from a database.

In other instances I have provided a shopping basket system but for my client their want to use their Actinic system. The disc can be sold with 10 to 20 tracks so they have added these as items into the Actinic database.

Using PHP script, when someone clicks the add to my basket button I lock the disc so that no further editing can take place then add the correct item to the shopping basket. All that works fine.

My problem is this:
How can we determine from the item in the shopping basket an ID of the disc that we have configured externally. Is it possible to pass a hidden form variable or similar that will let my client know where they need to go to view the listing, or is it possible to include the text somehow with the order - it would be around 2KB of text max.

Looking at the form variables, PAGEFILENAME look quite hopeful, I was hoping I could set a URL reference for where they need to go to view the disc but this value does not appear to be available.

Does anyone have any ideas, if nothing else I will get the system to email the details of the disc before it gets added to the basket, the only problem is that they then need to match up emails with orders and that could get messy!

Thanks in advance.

Chris Storey

[NormanRouxel]

Have a look at the "Other Info Prompt" that Actinic products can have. You can have 1000 characters in there.

If you look at the source of a product page with an other info item on it you should be able to see how you could use a modified template to make this field hidden and use some of your own code to pre-set it with the info from the created CD.

I.e. In your modified Product Template replace

NETQUOTEVAR:OTHERINFOPROMPT

with

<!--NETQUOTEVAR:OTHERINFOPROMPT-->
<INPUT TYPE=hidden NAME="O_NETQUOTEVAR:PRODUCTREFERENCE" VALUE="" >

Norman

[concretehelium]

That sounds like it could be quite useful, I could simply have something like:

Disc ID:1234

My client could then go to a page with all the outstanding discs, find the one with ID of 1234 and process it.

I assume that the other info prompt will be available for the user to see?

Thanks for your help, I will pass this suggestion along

Chris Storey