Smart coders help me out Please?

[RyanSmith]

I have been trying to add some custom code to pull certain options from new tables that I created in the database. I'm moving along pretty well, but I've gotten to a point where I'm not sure whats going on, and I want to be sure that I'm doing this right. I'm in shopping_cart.php right now, and I'm adding some custom code to display my attributes. I can't quite figure out what the hidden fields do.

 

echo tep_draw_hidden_field('id[' . $products[$i]['id'] . '][' . $option . ']', $value);

 

 

Does anyone know what these are here for? My full code looks like this:

 

if (strstr($value, "nd")) {

//Get name drop ID

$nd_val = substr($value, 3);

//Run query to get actual values

$nd = tep_db_query("select * from name_drop where name_drop_id = " . $nd_val);

//Get array of values

$att_vals = tep_db_fetch_array($nd);

//Create the attribute in the format (line1 :: line2 :: logoID)

$attr_value = $att_vals['line1'] . ' :: ' . $att_vals['line2'] . ' :: ' . $att_vals['logo'];

echo tep_draw_hidden_field('id[' . $products[$i]['id'] . '][' . 'nd_' . $option . ']', $attr_value);

} else if ($value == PRODUCTS_OPTIONS_VALUE_TEXT_ID){

echo tep_draw_hidden_field('id[' . $products[$i]['id'] . '][' . TEXT_PREFIX . $option . ']', $products[$i]['attributes_values'][$option]);

$attr_value = $products[$i]['attributes_values'][$option];

} else {

echo tep_draw_hidden_field('id[' . $products[$i]['id'] . '][' . $option . ']', $value);

$attr_value = $attributes_values['products_options_values_name'];

}

 

 

If anyone sees something wrong with this. I would also love some advice.

 

Thanks

[Jack_mcs]

It is just a way to pass the particular product taking its attributes into consideration (color, size, etc.). If you don't use attibutes then those values should be empty and will be ignored.

 

Jack

[RyanSmith]

It is just a way to pass the particular product taking its attributes into consideration (color, size, etc.).  If you don't use attibutes then those values should be empty and will be ignored.

 

Jack

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Thanks, I'm creating my own custom attributes that get pulled from a new database table. I've gotten to the point where it looks good on the shopping_cart page, and I think that it's getting inserted into the customers_basket_attributes ok as well, but after I leave the shopping_cart page, it isn't quite working.

 

I'm still trying to hack through the code to figure out whats going on.

 

Thanks for your reply.