How to print shopping cart contents?

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Does anybody know a way to literally print the contents of the shopping cart?

 

I am trying to create a coupon printing system. The coupons would be the products and users can add them to the "coupon cart". When you are done "shopping" for coupons, you could "checkout" by printing them.

 

I saw this working on a site http://promoticket.com (its in spanish) in which you can add x amount of coupons and then it nicely creates a html page with the all the coupons in your "shopping cart" nicely aligned and with the dotted lines to be cut. It is literally the same system as osCommerce, the only difference is you print out instead of checkout.

 

I found a contribution PDF data_sheet maker 1.1 (http://www.oscommerce.com/community/contributions,1077/category,all/search,pdf) which lets you put a print to pdf link in product_info.php. This is the closest contribution available to what I am looking for.

 

Has anybody done some thing like this with oscommerce, or do you how to print the shopping items (just the pictures).

Any help would be appreciated.

 

Thanks.

[scheinarts]

One way would be to create a php file that reads all the contents from the shopping cart and puts its image and description in its own individuals boxes.

 

The html output would look something like:

 

<table>

<tr>

<td><img src="coupon_image1.jpg"> <br> <p>Description of the this product1</p></td>

<td><img src="coupon_image2.jpg"> <br> <p>Description of the this product2</p></td>

</tr>

<tr>

<td><img src="coupon_image3.jpg"> <br> <p>Description of the this product3</p></td>

<td><img src="coupon_image4.jpg"> <br> <p>Description of the this product4</p></td>

</tr>

</table>

 

 

This is the piece of code i extracted from shopping_cart.php file that contains the php coding for the current items on the shopping cart...

 

CODE

<?php

if ($cart->count_contents() > 0) {

?>

<tr>

<td>

<?php

$info_box_contents = array();

$info_box_contents[0][] = array('align' => 'center',

'params' => 'class="productListing-heading"',

'text' => TABLE_HEADING_REMOVE);

 

$info_box_contents[0][] = array('params' => 'class="productListing-heading"',

'text' => TABLE_HEADING_PRODUCTS);

 

$info_box_contents[0][] = array('align' => 'center',

'params' => 'class="productListing-heading"',

'text' => TABLE_HEADING_QUANTITY);

 

$info_box_contents[0][] = array('align' => 'right',

'params' => 'class="productListing-heading"',

'text' => TABLE_HEADING_TOTAL);

 

$any_out_of_stock = 0;

$products = $cart->get_products();

for ($i=0, $n=sizeof($products); $i<$n; $i++) {

// Push all attributes information in an array

if (isset($products[$i]['attributes']) && is_array($products[$i]['attributes'])) {

while (list($option, $value) = each($products[$i]['attributes'])) {

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

$attributes = tep_db_query("select popt.products_options_name, poval.products_options_values_name, pa.options_values_price, pa.price_prefix

from " . TABLE_PRODUCTS_OPTIONS . " popt, " . TABLE_PRODUCTS_OPTIONS_VALUES . " poval, " . TABLE_PRODUCTS_ATTRIBUTES . " pa

where pa.products_id = '" . $products[$i]['id'] . "'

and pa.options_id = '" . $option . "'

and pa.options_id = popt.products_options_id

and pa.options_values_id = '" . $value . "'

and pa.options_values_id = poval.products_options_values_id

and popt.language_id = '" . $languages_id . "'

and poval.language_id = '" . $languages_id . "'");

$attributes_values = tep_db_fetch_array($attributes);

 

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

$products[$i][$option]['options_values_id'] = $value;

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

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

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

}

}

}

 

for ($i=0, $n=sizeof($products); $i<$n; $i++) {

if (($i/2) == floor($i/2)) {

$info_box_contents[] = array('params' => 'class="productListing-even"');

} else {

$info_box_contents[] = array('params' => 'class="productListing-odd"');

}

 

$cur_row = sizeof($info_box_contents) - 1;

 

$info_box_contents[$cur_row][] = array('align' => 'center',

'params' => 'class="productListing-data" valign="top"',

'text' => tep_draw_checkbox_field('cart_delete[]', $products[$i]['id']));

 

$products_name = '<table border="0" cellspacing="2" cellpadding="2">' .

' <tr>' .

' <td class="productListing-data" align="center"><a href="' . tep_href_link(FILENAME_PRODUCT_INFO, 'products_id=' . $products[$i]['id']) . '">' . tep_image(DIR_WS_IMAGES . $products[$i]['image'], $products[$i]['name'], SMALL_IMAGE_WIDTH, SMALL_IMAGE_HEIGHT) . '</a></td>' .

' <td class="productListing-data" valign="top"><a href="' . tep_href_link(FILENAME_PRODUCT_INFO, 'products_id=' . $products[$i]['id']) . '"><b>' . $products[$i]['name'] . '</b></a>';

 

if (STOCK_CHECK == 'true') {

$stock_check = tep_check_stock($products[$i]['id'], $products[$i]['quantity']);

if (tep_not_null($stock_check)) {

$any_out_of_stock = 1;

 

$products_name .= $stock_check;

}

}

 

if (isset($products[$i]['attributes']) && is_array($products[$i]['attributes'])) {

reset($products[$i]['attributes']);

while (list($option, $value) = each($products[$i]['attributes'])) {

$products_name .= '<br><small><i> - ' . $products[$i][$option]['products_options_name'] . ' ' . $products[$i][$option]['products_options_values_name'] . '</i></small>';

}

}

 

$products_name .= ' </td>' .

' </tr>' .

'</table>';

 

$info_box_contents[$cur_row][] = array('params' => 'class="productListing-data"',

'text' => $products_name);

 

$info_box_contents[$cur_row][] = array('align' => 'center',

'params' => 'class="productListing-data" valign="top"',

'text' => tep_draw_input_field('cart_quantity[]', $products[$i]['quantity'], 'size="4"') . tep_draw_hidden_field('products_id[]', $products[$i]['id']));

 

$info_box_contents[$cur_row][] = array('align' => 'right',

'params' => 'class="productListing-data" valign="top"',

'text' => '<b>' . $currencies->display_price($products[$i]['final_price'], tep_get_tax_rate($products[$i]['tax_class_id']), $products[$i]['quantity']) . '</b>');

}

 

new productListingBox($info_box_contents);

?>

 

 

 

The info here could be tweaked and made into a new php file and have it display the html code i placed above. And then at the bottom a link to trigger the Ctrl+P (print) action.

How would the info in the shopping_cart.php file be used to make this happen?