Adding "View Cart" and "Items, Value"

[RichardDDD]

Hello all. Ive managed to add both "Checkout" link ([NavigationIcon]) and the Search option ([QuickSearchBar]) but im unclear on how to add "View Cart" and "Items, Value" somewhere in the page. Any ideas would be very useful!

[leehack]

That layout is called the 'Standard shopping cart summary', try adding that layout where you want it. What theme are you using that doesn't already have this included as standard anyway?

[Rich Brady]

That layout is called the 'Standard shopping cart summary', try adding that layout where you want it. What theme are you using that doesn't already have this included as standard anyway?

Based on his other thread Lee I think he's gone from scratch in DW

[leehack]

Ah OK cool, even easier then, in DW where you add the various parts to your layout, add the shopping cart summary where you want it.

[RichardDDD]

Yep thats cool got the "Items, Value". Anyone know which code does "View Cart" tho? thx guys.

[leehack]

Open up the shopping cart summary layouts in the design|library to see the standard way these are done or license a new site and copy how they are formed from a standard theme.

[RichardDDD]

thx, that looks interesting there. If theres one question after looking thro - ATM ive created one page as a template. I was hoping that then once thats done, it would be easy to use the actinic program and not have to go back in dreamweaver. but, for example - a login script. to look thro the design|library|login Layout i have to copy and paste of code -

<span class="boxheading"><strong>Login</strong></span>
<div class="sidebox">
<div class="element">
<actinic:variable name="CheckoutArea" value="Scripts for Password Encryption" />

<form method="post".......etc etc

It doesnt look like i can copy and paste this anywhere in the actinic program (AFAIK). So i will have to create another page in dreamweaver, copy and paste the code, away from actinic for this to work properly - is this correct? Im just not entirely sure how to go around this. Thx all.

[leehack]

In DW you are not creating a page, you are creating a layout or template for the whole site to use. You create pages in actinic which use the template you created in DW. I don't think you are working with the tools in the best way. It's logical to want the cart summary on most if not all pages of your site, therefore you add it to the overall layout in DW and it will then show on each page within actinic that uses that template.

[RichardDDD]

Yes, thats sounds logically and thats what i was expecting really there. So in essence i will stick to one template page in DW, and then move to Actinic program itself.

Before i started my site tho, there were 2 pages in actinic (which is purged which is a mistake) a contact us page (had a form), and the login page. Is there an easy way to create these 2 pages in actinic? If theres a small tutorial somewhere i would appreciate it, I cannot see how to add the login from design|library to a page as its pure code and creating a page on itself wont let me do that, thank u a lot.