Each product, and attributes (if any) share one line in the shopping cart as seen at the bottom of this page.

Attribute: A term used to add to a description of the product, such as size, color, etc.

Make sure you’re addressing the right server. i.e. ww3, ww4, ww8, etc.

When using the form method addmulti, the qty has to be specified. It does not default to one such as the hyperlink does.

<form action=”http://ww3.aitsafe.com/cf/addmulti.cfm” method=”post”>

To open the cart in a new window add the target tag. If a new window is used, be sure to omit the return links and inform your customers that they have to close the window to continue shopping. A good place to tell them is in the cart header and/ or footer.

<form action=”http://ww3.aitsafe.com/cf/addmulti.cfm” target=”new” method=”post”>

<input type=”hidden” name=”userid” value=”5275435“>
<input type=”hidden” name=”return” value=”ww3.yourdomain.com/yourpage.htm“>

The convention is: product:price:units

The demo cart shipping setup is option 3 with the value .01 in the box, so the shipping (for example) on the 2″ candle will be $3.00 (300 X .01=3.00).

<select size=”1″ name=”productpr1″>
<option value=”2 inch Candle:2.98:300″>2 inch Candle $2.98 </option>
<option value=”4 inch Candle:4.98:400″>4 inch Candle $4.98 </option>
<option value=”6 inch Candle:6.98:500″>6 inch Candle $6.98 </option>
</select>

Each product must have a quantity (qty) of at least one associated with it in order to be passed to the cart. It can take the form of a customer input to select a quantity of the product to buy, or take the form of a hidden field.

<input type=”hidden” name=”qty” value=”1″>

In the example below, we let the customer select the quantity.  In each case, the customer can change the quantity of the item in the cart. If no quantity is entered into the box, the product will not be passed to or show up in the cart because nothing was ordered. You can have an input text box for each product in a form using qty1, qty2, etc. to correspond to the product number. Again, any product without at least “1″ entered into the box will not send the associated product to the cart. This means that you can have 30 products, each with a qty check box in a form and only those with a quantity of at least “1″ entered will be sent to the cart.Select Quantity

<input type=”text” name=qty1 size=”3″>

Any number of drop down menus may be included for each individual product within a form and as many options as desired may be added to each menu. To add additional menus for size, color, etc., just copy the html and change the attributes to match your needs.  To add more options to a menu just add additional

<option value>…………………..</option>

lines before the </select> tag. We use the append [ ] (without the space) brackets to append the attributes associated with each product, to the same product line in the cart.

<select size=”1″ name=”product1[]“>
<option value=”">Choose Scent</option>
<option value=”, Apple Scented”>Apple Scented</option>
<option value=”, Vanilla Scented”>Vanilla Scented</option>
<option value=”, Rose Scented”>Rose Scented</option>
</select>

Products can also be added to the cart with a check box. The “Add Candle Holder” checkbox is named product2 to make it show up on a separate line in the cart (each product will be on a separate line in the cart). Note that every tag associated with product2 has to have a value of 2 included within the tag. You can use as many check boxes as you need (max of 30 per form) as long as they are numbered to correspond to the product numbers.  We have also added a “units” field to this product so we can add a shipping charge for the candle holder to the cart.

<input type=”hidden” name=”product2[]” value=”Candle Holder”>
<input type=”checkbox” name=”qty2″ value=”1″>Add Candle Holder: $3.00
<input type=”hidden” name=units2″ value=”100″>
<input type=”hidden” name=”price2″ value=”3.00″>

Radio buttons can also be used to select an attribute for a product. We’ll use them to choose what type of finish we would like for our candle holder, again, appending them with brackets to product2. The rules for radio buttons apply. Only one can be chosen for each product they are associated with. Again, we are appending the choice to product2.

<input type=”radio” name=”product2[] value=”Polished Brass”>Polished Brass
<input type=”radio” name=”product2[]” value=”Silver”>Silver

This is pretty much self explanatory. Again, the append brackets are used to add the text to the candle holder (product2) on the same line in the cart. The one line text box could also be used as a separate product (productX) to gather small notes or messages to send to the cart.

<input type=”text” name=”product2[]” size=”30″>

We could also charge an additional amount for engraving by making this a separate product with the fields as shown, with “X” being replaced by a product number.

<input type=”hidden” name=” productX[]” value=”Engraving”>
<input type=”text” name=”productX[]” size=”16″>
<input type=”hidden” name=” qtyX” value=”1″>
<input type=”hidden” name=”priceX” value=”5.00″>

The “Add a message for a card” checkbox is product3. It will show up in the cart on its own line (if checked) with the message appended to it.

<input type=”hidden” name=”product3[]” value=”Card Message”>
<input type=”checkbox” name=”qty3″ value=”1″>
<textarea rows=”2″ name=product3[]” cols=”20″></textarea>

<input type=”submit” value=” Add to Cart”>

The tag img src must reflect the actual path to your image relative to the page it’s displayed on. In this case it resides within the image folder.

<input type=”image” src=”http://wsdh.net/mals/wp-content/uploads/2009/07/ReviewBasketani1.gif” width=”130″ height=”24″ border=”0″ alt=”Review Basket” value=”submit”>

Do not forget this tag!!

</form>