Webshop pricing - creating cumulative price additions when combining seperate products

Friday 10 September 2004 3:37:54 am

Hi there,

This is the monster of all problems for me <gulp>... almost at the point of thinking its near impossible (due to the way Ez deals with prices etc), but there must be a way... It may be a situation of looking for some paid consultancy, but if someone could possibly come back with some pointers or degree of difficulty I'd be immensely grateful.

What I'm trying to do is create a webshop where a customer can choose an item (in this case a precious stone) and then has the option to either 'add to basket' or 'choose a ring to go with the stone'.

If they decide to choose a ring the id number and cost of the stone needs to be taken over to the 'choose a ring' page.

Here they will see a number of rings who'se price will be determined by:

<price> = <static cost of ring> + <cost of chosen diamond from previous page>

and this is the price value that gets added to the basket if they decide they want it.

In addition, the information that comes through on the order needs to contain data as to the stone they have chosen as well as the accompanying ring.

Can anyone out there give some input into this. I'd like to conclude over the next few days whether this is something I can do myself or if I really need to look for some paid external input.

Its absolutely critical I build this functionality in, and anyones ideas or direction would be a great relief as I'm worried I've taken on something bigger than I can chew!

Thanks, Steve.

http://www.oneworldmarket.co.uk

Friday 10 September 2004 5:20:51 am

Paul,

Thanks for the response. Its something of a relief to know this achievable.

I'll investigate the info you've sent through and let you know how I get on. I guess there isnt any information on the new datatype as yet?

Cheers, Steve.

http://www.oneworldmarket.co.uk

Friday 10 September 2004 5:33:39 am

Paul,

I'm trying to grab the files from the svn area, from:

http://pubsvn.ez.no/websvn/listing.php?repname=nextgen&path=%2Ftrunk%2Fkernel%2Fclasses%2Fdatatypes%2Fezmultioption%2F&rev=0&sc=1

but am finding that files like ezmultioptiontype.php are a image, see:

http://pubsvn.ez.no/websvn/filedetails.php?repname=nextgen&path=%2Ftrunk%2Fkernel%2Fclasses%2Fdatatypes%2Fezmultioption%2Fezmultioptiontype.php&rev=0&sc=1

Is possible to get the code file versions?

Thanks, Steve.

http://www.oneworldmarket.co.uk

Friday 10 September 2004 5:59:52 am

Here is an example of a shop which uses this feature.
http://www.minelinser.no/content/view/full/5009/

And here:
http://ez.no/products/online_editor

I recommend trying to shop the last product to see how this feature works ;)

--bård

Documentation: http://ez.no/doc

Friday 10 September 2004 7:10:51 am

Steve,

no the OE product is one product in eZ publish ( our ez.no installation ). This product has a price of 0$ and we price the different options, using the option datatype.

--bård

Documentation: http://ez.no/doc

Monday 13 September 2004 5:28:21 am

Paul,

Thanks for the extension - works like a dream. If anyone would like a copy of it before 3.5 is released mail me via steve _at_ oneworldmarket.org and I'll pass it on.

A couple of questions:

- In my product type, there are always the same 6 additional multi options - is it easy to hardcode the options into the class so that all products have them, as opposed to having to add the 6 options everytime you add a new product (they have 600 products at any one time!)

- The multioption uses a dropdown to represent the additional product options - how difficult would it be to add an image to represent the product option?

Many thanks for the help on this.

Steve.

http://www.oneworldmarket.co.uk

Monday 04 October 2004 8:52:14 am

Ah, yes. I didnt look closely enough at how the multioption was carried through. A small change is needed to basket.php.

I've committed the 3.5 version of basket.php to pubsvn. Replace your current kernel/shop/basket.php with this one.

In addition, when you display your multioption datatype make sure it is within the <form> tags. Otherwise the information is not passed through to basket.php. I just made this mistake ;)

paul

Tuesday 05 October 2004 8:10:44 am

I forgot another class ;)

Look at pubsvn again at: backports/3.5 to 3.4/extension/ezmultioption/kernel/classes/ezproductcollectionitem.php

Replace in your current kernel. It has the update for the multioption inside.

paul