product text boxes with customer ability to add initials

[choyt3]

I am just new at this and have 2 questions.

1.) am putting in a jewelry store and need to have a product option that is a text box that the customer can enter their initials. How do I go about it?

2.) How do i set it up so that since the customer can order many of the same product but on the checkout only have the quantity of one for each of teh same product ordered and the initials for that individual one ordered? so on the checkout all you see for a majority of products is a quantity of 1 - let say a customer orders 5 fo the same rings with different initials - on the checkout, i want to see the product 5 different times with the initials for each ring seperatly and all of the quantities saying one.

[jpf]

1.) You need : Product Attributes - Option Type Feature http://www.oscommerce.com/community/contributions,160 Which does:

This allows a store owner to collect customization/personalization information for a product from the end user. The contribution is written in such a way that the addition of other option types such as Radio Buttons should be reasonably simple to add.

2.) Add only one of each item with differnet attribs (with the above) and should list each item as a separate item.....(I think) . If they modify or add 2 or more to cart then they are order 2 or more setup the same way (with the SAME attribs). Or (not very pertty way is to) add more attribs....ie: RING1 INTIALS: XXX RING2 INTIALS: XXX etc...

The best way is to add ONE to cart with intials then "ADD" another to cart with diffent intials.... More than ONE added to cart then ALL get the SAME intials.....(for that line)

Good Luck

[choyt3]

Thank you - am starting on it now!!!!

[fridgemags]

I have the option type feature for ms2 max setup on my website at www.fridgemags.com and it workson the customers end.

The problem I am having which is pretty serious is that when a customer enters there name for a personalized product All i get in the invoice when i go to check the order is

Example of invoice product detail


1 x Blue Ribbon magnet
- Wording: txt_

The settings for the option Values I have tried are

Text
text
txt_

I think my config files are ok and are as follows for the added option type feature code in catalog/includes/configure.php

// CLR 020605 defines needed for Product Option Type feature.
  define('PRODUCTS_OPTIONS_TYPE_SELECT', 0);
  define('PRODUCTS_OPTIONS_TYPE_TEXT', 1);
  define('PRODUCTS_OPTIONS_TYPE_RADIO', 2);
  define('PRODUCTS_OPTIONS_TYPE_CHECKBOX', 3);
  define('TEXT_PREFIX', 'txt_');
  define('PRODUCTS_OPTIONS_VALUE_TEXT_ID', 5);  //Must match id for user defined "TEXT" value in db table TABLE_PRODUCTS_OPTIONS_VALUES

I need to see what the customer entered whe4n i check the invoice which I think is the way it should be.

Any help would be really appreciated.

Thanx in advance

[fridgemags]

One other thing that may help someone figure this out.

Under option value for text i have tried

TEXT
text
Text
txt_

""

And tried leaving blank

What ever i put in the options value area is what i recieve when i check the order invoice and not what the customer typed.

thanx

[fridgemags]

All fixed boss

What I did to fix this was check my Order_Info_Process.php.php file at

Catalog/Order_Info_Process.php

I used beyond compare and compared the Order_Info_Process.php file on my site to the file included with the option_type_feature original Order_Info_Process.php file

What i found was that there was some code missing and that the file was not properly changed when i installed the feature.

You can get a copy of beyond compare at http://download.com.com/3000-2248-10...ml?tag=lst-0-1

Load the original file in the left column and the file from your server in the right file and about halfway down the page you will notice that on the left column there is some commented code and on the right it is different.

Copy this line into the file on the right

Save the file

Reload to server.

Now this should take care of this problem.


If this seems like babbling to you it is propably cause I sucked at english in school HaHa

If you would like a better explanation Pm me and i will try to explain better.

Hope this helps someone here

Later and i am finally going to sleep Good Night