Multiply price by number of letters in text box

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One of the products in our current store is iron-on letters that are purchased to customize vests with a person's name or their group. They are sold individually and available in 4 different colors. Rather than having the customer choose from a 26 option drop down list or radio button selection (letters A-Z) for each individual letter they want our current system multiplies the count of a text box by the individual price of the letters. Since all letters are always available we don't have to worry about tracking stock so we just need the total price to reflect the individual price multiplied by the number of characters entered in the text box. I was able to customize the code of the current system to achieve this but I'm having a little difficulty figuring out the exact pages and procedures involved in adding products to the shopping cart in Product Cart. Any help that could save me some time would be greatly appreciated. I've managed to get figure out how to get Product Cart to do everything our current system does with this one exception. We're making the switch to Product Cart because it has a much more user friendly interface as well as a more appealing base layout.

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pqmagic70 Members Profile Send Private Message Find Members Posts Add to Buddy List Newbie Joined: 10-August-2014 Status: Offline Points: 12	Post Options Post Reply Quote pqmagic70 Report Post Thanks(0) Quote Reply Topic: Multiply price by number of letters in text box Posted: 13-August-2014 at 5:48pm
	One of the products in our current store is iron-on letters that are purchased to customize vests with a person's name or their group. They are sold individually and available in 4 different colors. Rather than having the customer choose from a 26 option drop down list or radio button selection (letters A-Z) for each individual letter they want our current system multiplies the count of a text box by the individual price of the letters. Since all letters are always available we don't have to worry about tracking stock so we just need the total price to reflect the individual price multiplied by the number of characters entered in the text box. I was able to customize the code of the current system to achieve this but I'm having a little difficulty figuring out the exact pages and procedures involved in adding products to the shopping cart in Product Cart. Any help that could save me some time would be greatly appreciated. I've managed to get figure out how to get Product Cart to do everything our current system does with this one exception. We're making the switch to Product Cart because it has a much more user friendly interface as well as a more appealing base layout. Thanks

Greg Dinger Members Profile Send Private Message Find Members Posts Add to Buddy List Certified ProductCart Developers Joined: 23-September-2006 Location: United States Status: Offline Points: 238	Post Options Post Reply Quote Greg Dinger Report Post Thanks(0) Quote Reply Posted: 13-August-2014 at 5:54pm
	I'd consider looking at instPrd.asp to make these changes. You may also need to adjust viewPrd.asp and associated (viewPrdCode.asp, viewPrdL.asp, etc.) depending upon how you want to alter the layout. But if the idea is to count the characters in a custom input field, and use that to manipulate the quantity, start with instPrd.asp.

pqmagic70 Members Profile Send Private Message Find Members Posts Add to Buddy List Newbie Joined: 10-August-2014 Status: Offline Points: 12	Post Options Post Reply Quote pqmagic70 Report Post Thanks(0) Quote Reply Posted: 13-August-2014 at 7:27pm
	Thanks Greg. I had been looking at viewPrd.asp and viewPrdCode.asp but I hadn't checked instPrd.asp. Hopefully that will be the missing piece.