Why does movign the "Add to cart" button on product_info.php cause it not to work?

[rs2k]

I tried to move the "Add to cart" button from the bottom of the page to under the product image and now it won't work. When you click on it nothing happens. I've tried moving it to many different parts of the page without success.

 

 

Any idea why?

[lindsayanng]

you arent moving the entire chunk of code then.. make sure you do ALL of the code for the button.. I did it successfully.

[sLaV-]

Looks like your moving the add to cart button BEFORE your making the database call to find out which product is being viewed ... and hence you dont have the product id value yet to add it to the cart

[rs2k]

you arent moving the entire chunk of code then.. make sure you do ALL of the code for the button.. I did it successfully.

 

 

Hmm, in desperation I moved about 20 lines around the code to the top of the page. It still did not work.

[rs2k]

As a test I put 4 Buy Now buttons on this page. The HTML code for all four buttons look like this in page source:

<!--				<tr>

			  <td height="30"><a href="http://www.url.com/prod-name-p-82.html?action=buy_now"><img src="includes/languages/english/images/buttons/button_buy_now.gif" border="0" alt="Buy Now" title=" Buy Now " width="60" height="14"></a>
			</tr>
-->

 

 

Only the bottom one works.

[lindsayanng]

why are your buttons hardcoded??

 

Are you using a template?

[rs2k]

why are your buttons hardcoded??

 

Are you using a template?

 

 

Here is the php code:

			  <tr>
			<td class="main" align="right"><?php echo tep_draw_hidden_field('products_id', $product_info['products_id']) . tep_image_submit('button_in_cart.gif', IMAGE_BUTTON_IN_CART); ?></td>
		  </tr>

 

I'm not using a template.

[shooter-boy]

You have likely moved the button out of the actual form tags...

 

Can you post the whole source of the page, not just the button code?

 

Thanks,

 

Rob

[rs2k]

You have likely moved the button out of the actual form tags...

 

Can you post the whole source of the page, not just the button code?

 

Thanks,

 

Rob

 

That was the problem.

 

While moving some things around I got the form tag moved as well.

 

 

Thank you!

[shooter-boy]

That was the problem.

 

While moving some things around I got the form tag moved as well.

 

 

Thank you!

 

Gotta be careful in there :D

An easy mistake to make...

;)

 

Rob

[lindsayanng]

your add to cart should look like this:

				<td class="main" align="right"><?php echo tep_draw_hidden_field('products_id', $product_info['products_id']) . tep_image_submit('button_in_cart.gif', IMAGE_BUTTON_IN_CART); ?></td>

 

Your button just has a link, but no statements to tell the cart which product to pull form the DB to put into the cart.. That is NOT the stock cart button... Either you coded it yourself, got it from a bad contribution, or something else../

[shooter-boy]

your add to cart should look like this:

				<td class="main" align="right"><?php echo tep_draw_hidden_field('products_id', $product_info['products_id']) . tep_image_submit('button_in_cart.gif', IMAGE_BUTTON_IN_CART); ?></td>

 

Your button just has a link, but no statements to tell the cart which product to pull form the DB to put into the cart.. That is NOT the stock cart button... Either you coded it yourself, got it from a bad contribution, or something else../

 

 

The OP has already said this is resolved - the only problem was that he moved the submit button out of the form tags.

 

Why is everyone trying to overcomplicate this?

 

Rob

[lindsayanng]

i am trying to point out the proper way to code your add to cart button to avoid future issues.. hardcoding links is not a good idea in ecommerce

[shooter-boy]

i am trying to point out the proper way to code your add to cart button to avoid future issues.. hardcoding links is not a good idea in ecommerce

 

 

The OP post their code, and it is correct - it is not being hardcoded...

They post a snippet from "view source" which may have caused some confusion.

 

Reading the posts in this thread would have shown that, including the OP's post of the functions being used.

 

Anyway, all that aside, the issue is resolved.

 

Rob