Highlighting The Discount Band

[Darren B]

Im hoping someone here can offer some help, on this site http://www.casupply.co.uk/ i have a discount structure info box setup in the left hand side bar below the navigation, in the checkout pages i have removed the navigation so this sits at the top.

what i am after is a way to highlight the discount band according to the value in there shopping basket. I know this is not going to be an easy one but any help or pointers would be greatly appreciated.

This site here has what im looking for http://www.aluminiumwarehouse.co.uk/index.html

Cheers
Darren
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[NormanRouxel]

You can do this with JavaScript. The tricky bit is getting the Cart total into a numeric form so you can do some comparison on it. Use:

var carttotal = getCartItem(1).toString().replace(/./g, '.').replace(/&#\d+;/g, '') - 0;

[NormanRouxel]

Then what you do is something like this:

<span id="less5">£200 - £399.99 Less 5%</span><br/>
<span id="less10">£400 - £599.99 Less 10%</span><br/>
<span id="less15">£600 - £999.99 Less 15%</span><br/>
<span id="less20">£1000 % Over Less 20%</span><br/>

<style>.discbold {font-weight: bold; color: blue;}</style>
<script type="text/javascript">
var carttotal = getCartItem(1).toString().replace(/&#38;#46;/g, '.').replace(/&#38;#\d+;/g, '') - 0;
if ( carttotal >= 200 && carttotal < 400 ) document.getElementById('less5').className='discbold';
if ( carttotal >= 400 && carttotal < 600 ) document.getElementById('less10').className='discbold';
if ( carttotal >= 600 && carttotal < 1000 ) document.getElementById('less15').className='discbold';
if ( carttotal >= 1000 ) document.getElementById('less20').className='discbold';
</script>

[Darren B]

Thanks Norman i will give it a go now and see what happens

As always your help is much appreciated

Darren

[Darren B]

Everything worked great but is there a variable for the sub total (net price) as the discount bands work on net value.

Thanks again
Darren

[Darren B]

Hmmmm

OK i have adjusted the range to the price including VAT this works until you start to mess with the quatities in your shopping cart as the discount changes between bands it does not show the correct value.

Is there anywere on the checkout pages that you can find the total net price before any discounts have been applied, i mean a hidden variable or something similar

Cheers
Darren

[NormanRouxel]

The only thing available in real-time is the total cart value. This may / may not include shipping and VAT depending on your system configuration. It probably includes discounts so there will be problems (£200 less 5% is the same as £190 with no discount).

There's no way to get at any other info without hacking the Perl and that's a big job.

[NormanRouxel]

O.K. Here is the Perl tweak that extends the Cart cookie to contain the Cart sub-total.

Edit ActinicOrder.pm (back it up first) and look for:

sub GenerateCartCookie

Replace that entire routine i.e.

sub GenerateCartCookie
	{
.
.
.
	return($sCookie);
	}

With the following:

sub GenerateCartCookie
	{
	#
	#Set the default cookie content
	#
	my $sCookie =  "CART_TOTAL\t0\tCART_COUNT\t0\tCART_SUBTOTAL\t0\n";
	#
	# Read the shopping cart
	#
	my @Response = $::Session->GetCartObject();
	if ($Response[0] != $::SUCCESS)					# general error
		{
		return ("CART_CONTENT=". ACTINIC::EncodeText2($sCookie,0));	# empty cart so return empty string
		}
	my $pCartObject = $Response[2];

	my $pCartList = $pCartObject->GetCartList();
	#
	# Get item count
	#
	my $nCount = $pCartObject->CountQuantities();
	if ($nCount <= 0)
		{
		return ("CART_CONTENT=". ACTINIC::EncodeText2($sCookie,0));	# empty cart so return empty string
		}
	#
	# Summarize order
	#
	 @Response = $pCartObject->SummarizeOrder($::TRUE);# calculate the order total
	if ($Response[0] != $::SUCCESS)
		{
		return ("CART_CONTENT=". ACTINIC::EncodeText2($sCookie,0));
		}
	my $nTotal = $Response[6];

	my $nSubTotal = $Response[2];
	#
	# Format sub-total price
	#
	@Response = ActinicOrder::FormatPrice($nSubTotal, $::TRUE, $::g_pCatalogBlob);	# Format current sub-total
	if ($Response[0] != $::SUCCESS)
		{
		return ("CART_CONTENT=". ACTINIC::EncodeText2($sCookie,0));
		}
	my $sSubTotal = $Response[2];
	
	#
	# Format price
	#
	@Response = ActinicOrder::FormatPrice($nTotal, $::TRUE, $::g_pCatalogBlob);	# Format current total
	if ($Response[0] != $::SUCCESS)
		{
		return ("CART_CONTENT=". ACTINIC::EncodeText2($sCookie,0));
		}
	my $sTotal = $Response[2];
	#
	# Create Cookie string
	#
	$sCookie =  "CART_TOTAL\t" . ACTINIC::EncodeText2($sTotal) 
		. "\tCART_COUNT\t" . ACTINIC::EncodeText2($nCount)
		. "\tCART_SUBTOTAL\t" . ACTINIC::EncodeText2($sSubTotal) . "\n";
	$sCookie = "CART_CONTENT=" . ACTINIC::EncodeText2($sCookie,0);
	return($sCookie);
	}

Now, in post #3 above replace getCartItem(1) with getCartItem(5) to use the sub-total.

[Darren B]

thanks Norman,running out of time today, i will take a peek tomorrow and feed back how i get on

Cheers
Darren

[Darren B]

I have done your hack today thanks Norman it works a treat

if you want to see it then you can here http://www.cabp.co.uk

Thank you so much for the assistance
Darren

[Darren B]

OK me again

I have been trying to add a background image to the highlight but without success can someone tell em what i have wrong here the background colour works but not the image

{color: white; background-image: url('discount_background.gif'); background-color: #800000;}</

Cheers
Darren

[Chunkford]

There's no way to get at any other info without hacking the Perl and that's a big job.

O.K. Here is the Perl tweak that extends the Cart cookie to contain the Cart sub-total.

Norman likes a challenge then! LOL

[NormanRouxel]

A big job if you don't know where to start as there's nearly 2Mb of Perl source, split over about 34 files!

Luckily, experience told me it would be in ActinicOrder.pm and a quick search for "cookie" got me close. After that it was pretty much a copy / tweak / paste job.

It might be worth Actinic adding this in a future release as it extends the cart contents cookie without changing any existing functionality.

[NormanRouxel]

Darren,

I'm not sure if you're getting the correct display. My tweak was for discounts using the Marketing / Discounts / Order Level method. This applies the discount after the sub-total.

You seem to be using a different method and your sub-total is calculated after the discount is applied.

You may need to adjust the values used in the set of if statements to use the discounted prices.

[Darren B]

i had thought it was working ok but on close examination your right when its around the figure it can show the wrong band.

the discount i am using is on cart contents (restricted to certain product groups)