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Shopping Cart : Product Quantity

admin — Wed, 04 Aug 2010 05:36:54 +0000

I found a few reason why using drop-down menu for product quantity instead of text field could be better (product_info.php and shopping_cart.php files):

With tracking inventory, it’s possible to setup a max number of products that could be added to the shopping cart
It’s easy to set a default value other than 1. For the parts store there is always required number of parts per assembly

function tep_select_quantity(
  $name = 'quantity',
  $start = '1', $end = MAX_QTY_IN_CART,
  $selected = 0, $param ='' ) {

  for( $i = $start; $i <= $end; ++$i ) {
    $quantity[] = array('id'   => $i, 'text' => ' ' . $i . ' ');
  }
  return tep_draw_pull_down_menu (
    $name, $quantity, $selected, "class=\"{$name}\" {$param}");
}

The method could be used with default values for most cases.
For the shopping cart page, as a parameter, we can pass a JavaScript as follows: onchange=”document.forms['cart_quantity'].submit ();”

With adding an additional link Remove, we don’t need Update’ button any longer. Check the web site to see this modification in action

MOD: Order Editor

admin — Sat, 12 May 2007 14:30:12 +0000

Order Editor Original link is here
Just one file I don’t see any reason to use GLOBALS and like to have both billing and shipping addaress hiden if they are the same as a customer address when I start the Order Editor.

Illegal characters

admin — Mon, 29 Jan 2007 04:45:35 +0000

The page might contain illegal characters in text generated with tep_href_link () (html_output.php). Usually, it’s a ‘&’ within URL. return htmlspecialchars ($link); works better so far. Once again, it’s being tested in admin.

Empty TABLE tag

admin — Sun, 28 Jan 2007 04:42:54 +0000

It could be done already by somebody else, it’s ok. I am trying to keep somewhere the list of bugs I had to fix.

If the the menu is “closed”, no option is shown, the class ‘table_block’ in admin/includes/classes/ will generate the empty ‘table’ tags, so any validation will fail. There is, probably, the same issue with catalog, I had no chance to look at that yet.