Hello Monks,

I believe I have hit a brick wall. I am desperately trying to modify some code to allow me to place multiple entries of the same item in a cart. I've tried a few things and I'm not having much luck. At this point, I'm willing to pay someone for their services to help me fix this code.

Here's the deal..
I have two tables:
1.) catalog; fields - product_id(PK), description, price, category.
2.) item; fields - item_id(PK), prod_id(FK), color

A fellow monk was able to help me with code that created a color array so I can have a popup menu of colors per product appear. The code works beautifully! Well, I need to pass the item_id to the add_item subroutine not the product_id. (The item_id represents the variations of the product based on color). Well, I tried modifying the color array to bring along the item_id. When I run the script, my product appears as many times as there are colors for that item (if item has 3 colors - it appears 3 times). My change completely reversed what the color array intended to achieve.

I, then, proceeded to create a seperate array for item_id. Why? I have no idea. I've been staring at this for so long, I'm grasping at straws. Suffice it to say, the seperate array did nothing.

So, I'm coming back to Perl Monks in the hope of getting some real expert help not my amateur attempts.

I've pasted all the code involved for adding items. I hope someone can give me some help. Oh, I wasn't kidding about paying a fee, either.

Here's the code..
First, dispatch for proper action.
elsif ($choice eq "add") # add item to shopping cart { add_item ($dbh, $cart_ref, param ("product_id"), param("quantity") +, param("color")); $page .= format_cart_html ($cart_ref, 1); }

Second, displays the catalog of products.
sub get_product_table { my $sth = shift; my $dbh = WebDB::connect (); my ($clref, $ref); my @row; my @nav_link; my ($color, @color); while (my $ref = $sth->fetchrow_hashref ()) { ### courtesy code written by Perl Monk LAI #### $clref = $dbh->prepare ("SELECT color FROM item WHERE p +rod_id = ".$ref->{product_id}); $clref->execute(); while (my $color = $clref->fetchrow_hashref()) { push @{$ref->{color}}, $color->{color}; } my $serve_url = sprintf ("serve_image.cgi?product_id=%s;picture", + escape ($ref->{product_id})); # generate a form allowing a quantity of the item to be added # to the cart push (@row, start_form(-method=>'POST', -action=>url()), hidden( -name => "choice", -override => 1, -default => "add" ), hidden( -name => "product_id", -override => 1, -default => escapeHTML($ref->{product_id})), Tr ({-style=>"font-family: verdana; font-size: 10pt;"}, td (img ({-src => $serve_url, -alt => escapeHTML($ref->{product_id} +)})), td ({-width=>"80", -valign=>"top", -align => "center"}, escapeHTML( + $ref->{product_id} )), td ({-width=>"190", -valign=>"top"}, escapeHTML( $ref->{description +} ))), td (" "), Tr ({-style=>"font-family: verdana; font-size: 10pt;"}, td ({-colspan => "3", -align => "right", -style=>"font-weight: 700; + color:blue;"}, "Price: \$", escapeHTML( sprintf( "%.2f", $ref->{pri +ce}))), Tr ({-style=>"font-family: verdana; font-size: 10pt;"}, td ({-colspan => "3", -align => "right"}, "Colors:", popup_menu( -n +ame => "color", -values => $ref->{color}))), Tr ({-style=>"font-family: verdana; font-size: 10pt;"}, td ({-colspan => "3", -align => "right"}, "Quantity:", popup_menu( +-name => "quantity", -values => ["1", "2", "3", "4", "5", "6", "7", " +8", "9"])), td (image_button( -name => "Add Item", -src=>"../images/add.jpg", - +border=>"0" )))), Tr ({-valign=>"top"}, td ({-colspan=>"7", -width=>"100%"}, hr)), end_form() ); } $sth->finish (); return undef unless @row; # no items? return (table ({-border => 0, -align => "center", -style=>"font-fa +mily: verdana; font-size: 10pt;"}, @row)); }

Third, the add item subroutine.
sub add_item { my ($dbh, $cart_ref, $product_id, $qty, $color) = @_; # If the item isn't already in the cart, look it up from the datab +ase # and store it in the cart as a new entry with a quantity of zero. if (!exists ($cart_ref->{$product_id})) { my $sth = $dbh->prepare ("SELECT * FROM catalog_pet WHERE prod +uct_id = ?"); $sth->execute ($product_id); my $item_ref = $sth->fetchrow_hashref (); $sth->finish (); return if !defined ($item_ref); # this shouldn't happen... $cart_ref->{$product_id} = {}; # create new entry, indexed +by item ID $cart_ref->{$product_id}->{description} = $item_ref->{descript +ion}; $cart_ref->{$product_id}->{price} = $item_ref->{price}; $cart_ref->{$product_id}->{qty} = 1; } $cart_ref->{$product_id}->{qty} = $qty; $cart_ref->{$product_id}->{color} = $color; }

Finally, the view cart.
sub format_cart_html { my ($cart_ref, $show_links) = @_; my $total_price = 0; my @row; if (!keys (%{$cart_ref})) { return (p ("Shopping cart is empty.")); } $page .= h3 ({-align=>"center", -style=>"font-family: +verdana; font-size: 16pt; color: blue;"}, ("Shopping Cart")); push (@row, Tr ({-align => "CENTER", -valign=>"TOP", -BGCOLOR=>" +silver", -style=>"font-family: verdana; font-size: 10pt;"}, th ({-width=>"50"},("Item")), th ({-width=>"50"},("Qty")), th ({ +-width=>"90"},("Color")), th ({-width=>"190"},("Description")), th ({-width=>"94"},("Unit Price")), th ({-width=>"94"},("Price")) )); foreach my $product_id (sort (keys (%{$cart_ref}))) { my $item_ref = $cart_ref->{$product_id}; my $total_item_price = $item_ref->{qty} * $item_ref->{price}; $total_price += $total_item_price; # generate a link allowing the item to be deleted from the car +t my $url = sprintf ("%s?choice=delete;product_id=%s", url (), escape ($product_id)); push (@row, start_form(-method=>'GET', + -action=>url()), hidden( -name => "choice", -override => 1, -default => "update" ), hidden( -name => "product_id", -override => 1, -default => escapeHTML( + $product_id )), Tr ({-valign=>"center", -style=>"font-f +amily: verdana; font-size: 10pt;"}, td ({-align => "center"},(escapeHTML ($ +product_id))), td ({-align => "center"},( textfield( - +name => "quantity", -size => "1", -override => 1, -value => $item_ref +->{qty}))), td (escapeHTML ($item_ref->{color})), td (escapeHTML ($item_ref->{description})), td ({-align => "right"}, escapeHTML (sprintf ("%.2f", $item_ref->{price +}))), td ({-align => "right"}, escapeHTML (sprintf ("%.2f", $total_item_price +))), td (a ({-href => $url}, img ({-src => ".. +/images/delete1.jpg", -border => "0"}))), td (image_button( -name => "update", -src +=>"../images/update1.jpg", -border=>"0" )), end_form() )); } push (@row, Tr ({-align => "CENTER", -valign=>"center", -style=>" +font-family: verdana; font-size: 10pt;"}, td ({-colspan => "2"}, ""), td ({-colspan => "3", -align=>"right", -style=>"font-w +eight: 700;"}, "Total"), td ({-align => "right", -style=>"font-weight: 700;"}, escapeHTML (sprintf ("%.2f", $total_price))) )); return (table ({-align => "CENTER", -border => 0}, @row)); }

I hope someone is willing to give me some help.

Thanks!

In reply to Duplicate items in cart do not appear by b310

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