comparing prefilled forms? This is killing me?

oldspice

I have this:
<input type=text size=2 maxlength=3 name=\"quantity[]\" value=\"$quantity[$count]\"></input>

My question is...if the value of $quantity[$count] is 5...but I actually want the user to see 1 less or 4...while maintaining the quantity[] as 5...how would I do it. I need an optical illusion. The user to see 4 when 5 is actually there.

I need a genius for this one...nudge nudge🙂

If a person buys 4 bottles they get 1 for half price. I want my cart to show 3 at regular price and 1 at half price. 2 seperate lines. So the line 1 must show 3 and line 2 must show 1. The customer should not be able to change the line 2 amount...it is just a dummy form that always has a 1 in it if the customer has satisfied the minimum quantity purchased to get 1 at half price. The limit is one special per order. So you see...when the customer changes line 1 input box to 6 it must compare 6 to the actual total of 4 items when they hit enter or submit the form. If the form is prefilled with 3 then it messes up my script because on one hand I have stored the correct value(4) in a compare array yet I have stored that value -1(or 3) in the form box before the customer has done anything so even though they don't change the amount of the box everytime the cart view is refreshed when they change another line it automatically lowers the bottle quantity by 1 everytime.

I know I can just destroy everything and go about this another way but I am just trying to get help before I do.

MrAlaska

I might totally not understand your problem at all. It appears to me like you are making two sales but trying to treat them as one. It appears you already are putting the special in its own form? If so, that could creat problems on its own.

I would assume the special is an inducement to get them to add one more item to their cart anyway. I would treat the half price special as a separate sale that needs an extra round of validation before it is processed (or displayed).

oldspice

here is how it might look, no forms though(a total of 4 oranges):

Oranges 3 1.00 3.00
Oranges(1/2 price special,limit 1) 1 .50 .50

the second oranges is just for appearance...a dummy form(makes my cart list stay uniform in its appearance). It goes away if the customer buys less than 4 because that is the deal. The customer can not change the value of line 2...it will just always return 1 when it is visible regardless.
Buy 3 get 1 at half price. If the customer takes away 1 from line 1 the output would be(a total of 3 oranges no special).

Oranges 3 1.00 3.00

If i change line 1 in the very top example, the input must know that really there are 4 oranges selected not just the 3 shown in the textbox.

oldspice

Hey MrAlaska,

I use to live in Alaska. About 12 years. Anchorage....Fairbanks...Kodiak Island🙂
Sorry about off topic.

MrAlaska

If the customer changed the quantity in line one from three to two, then they would only be buying two oranges. The additional purchase of the half price orange would then not be an option for them. If they checked the box (or whatever) to buy a half price orange the sale for that item would not go through. So the way I would set it up would be to make the sale of four oranges actually be two separate purchases, one purchase for a quantity of three and one purchase for a quantity of one at the reduced price.

Hey, it's your topic so I think you can go off topic if you want 😃 I have never lived in Kodiak or Fairbanks but I spent too many years in Anchorage working the door at the Great Alaskan Bush Company (good ol' days). I spent too much time in Shelikof Straits when I was fishing and we holed up around Kodiak Is. a few times. Fairbanks was usually just a short stop for me on the way to the Slope. My home town is Homer, but I am now living a long way from home (Boston).

oldspice

With that kind of job background its a miracle your able to even have these discussions in a forum such as this😉 I have been to the Bush Co. in my youth and have also been up and down the Aleutians on the dreaded fish processor in my youth. I can still remember the day when I went to the Crazy Horse and saw the girl who, in her birthday suit, could put her legs behind her head and walk on her hands...oops...I don't know if you ever knew of the Crazy Horse in Anchorage...it was the Bush Co. for lowlifes😉

Thanks for your help. I ended up doing as you said and just creating an independent line item. Administrator chooses "oranges" as the special and I append "(1/2 price special,limit 1)" to it and shove it into the specials table in my mysql database. Then when the customer meets the criteria to receive the sale price they see the product listed as a special in their cart. Thanks!

MrAlaska

If it was a petite lil' blonde girl doing that freaky thing, it might have been one of my former room-mates, Celeste, who was shaking her stuff at P.J.'s when I left town. One day Connie, who followed Celeste in the rotation, spun out of control and fell off the dance floor breaking her arm. We teased her unmercifully, saying she must have slipped on one of Celeste's 'snail trails'. We contrived all sorts of schemes the girls should employ to make sure the dance floor is dry before she went back to work.

I remember the employee meetings when they were gonna open Crazy Horse, except it was gonna be called Bush Too at the time. The woman that owned the Bush also opened Crazy Horse and decided to name it that after she scored a life size plastic horse that now is suspended about 30 feet above the main floor but a lotta people don't notice it. She decided to go with an old west motif with girls coming down the stair case and all that stuff. I have actually never BEEN there
looking around furtively
even though it was right down the street from where my girlfriend worked, Gussy Lamours, where I never went either not even on nickel beer night
checking the integrity of the nearest lightening rod

Last time I went to Anchor Town, they had 'cleaned up' the Avenue, 'cleaned up' Muldoon, and 'cleaned up' Spenard, leaving the Crazy Horse in the only area still allowing lowlifes. Crazy Horse had become 'the' hot spot with table dances starting at a minimum of $50 or $100 for one of the 'show girls'. Three minutes and no touching allowed, gotta love it.

Glad ya got the script working, talk atcha later.