Adding an input form into shopping cart

We have a children's book site that we would like to allow buyers to customize one of the first pages of the book (possibly for an additional price) and allow them to say "Dear Tom" "Happy 5th Birthday!" "Love Grandma & Grandpa" or something like that. So we need 3 inputs spaces in the form, and we need it to submit that information along with which book they buy so that we can process their order. I'm not exactly sure how the best way to do this is. Should I put a form in the cart.php page and have it submit with the order. The other tricky thing is what if they buy several books for different people and each book goes to a different person. Then they need the insert form for each product. And it might need to add a few dollars to the price. Is this possible?

first, you need to create a new column in the eCart object for each input field. you should set the unique attribute for each of them.


Then in the eCart Add to Cart button behavior, select each of these columns and set them to be Updateable From a Text Box.

This will add the needed input fields to the page.

can you be a little more specific. How do I create the columns and set the unique attribute? Do you mean create new <div> with id's or something? And is there a way that users can buy the books for normal price or check a box or something and customize for an additional cost that will be automatically added?

you create the new column in the eCart object.


Go to Insert -> Webassist -> eCart -> eCart Object. From the list of eCart objects select the one for your store, then click the edit button. On the Columns tab, you can add the new columns.

So I followed the instructions on the cart.php and got this error when opening the site to any page...

Parse error: syntax error, unexpected ')' in /home/content/l/u/n/lunchpailbooks/html/WA_eCart/WA_Store_Cart_PHP.php on line 117

Am I supposed to do it on a different php page?

can you post a copy of the WA_eCart/WA_Store_Cart_PHP.php so I can look at the code?

here it is..

looks like the trigers for the shipping rules got mangled.


change line 117:

if (true && ()) {

to:

if ($WAGLOBAL_Shipping_Enabled == 1 && (("USPS"=="USPS")&&(isset($_SESSION["WA_Store_Cart_USPS_Quote"]))&&(floatval($_SESSION["WA_Store_Cart_USPS_Quote"]) != 0))) {

Line 126:

if (true && ()) {

to:

if ($WAGLOBAL_Shipping_Enabled == 1 && (("FedEx"=="FedEx")&&(isset($_SESSION["WA_Store_Cart_FedEx_Quote"]))&&(floatval($_SESSION["WA_Store_Cart_FedEx_Quote"]) != 0))) {

and line 135:

if (true && ()) {

to:

if ($WAGLOBAL_Shipping_Enabled == 1 && (("UPS"=="UPS")&&(isset($_SESSION["WA_Store_Cart_UPS_Quote"]))&&(floatval($_SESSION["WA_Store_Cart_UPS_Quote"]) != 0))) {

Able to browse the site again, thanks for the help. Now when I try to add a product to the cart I get this error. The url is Products_Results.php. If you try to add a product to the cart you'll see the below error. I've attached the WA_Store_Cart_PHP.php page and again...


Warning: Missing argument 14 for WA_Store_Cart_Definition::AddToCart(), called in /home/content/l/u/n/lunchpailbooks/html/Products_Detail.php on line 187 and defined in /home/content/l/u/n/lunchpailbooks/html/WA_eCart/WA_Store_Cart_PHP.php on line 31

Warning: Missing argument 15 for WA_Store_Cart_Definition::AddToCart(), called in /home/content/l/u/n/lunchpailbooks/html/Products_Detail.php on line 187 and defined in /home/content/l/u/n/lunchpailbooks/html/WA_eCart/WA_Store_Cart_PHP.php on line 31

Warning: Missing argument 16 for WA_Store_Cart_Definition::AddToCart(), called in /home/content/l/u/n/lunchpailbooks/html/Products_Detail.php on line 187 and defined in /home/content/l/u/n/lunchpailbooks/html/WA_eCart/WA_Store_Cart_PHP.php on line 31

Warning: Cannot modify header information - headers already sent by (output started at /home/content/l/u/n/lunchpailbooks/html/WA_eCart/WA_Store_Cart_PHP.php:31) in /home/content/l/u/n/lunchpailbooks/html/Products_Detail.php on line 203

you need to update the add to cart button on the product detail page.

any time you add columns to the cart object, the add to cart button will need o be updated.