Tuesday, March 13, 2012

Stuck working on ecommerce carthelp plz?

I'm working on an ecommerce site with asp.net and I am currently focusing on the cart page. I have an incoming prodId and Qnty (quantity). These values are stored to an array (the reason for this is so that I can leave the cart page and come back and have all the cart items still available).

Then I set up a table for design elements. And in this table I add an inner-table. This inner table is where I assemble the Product Information. Since the array can have 1 to many items in it, this has proven tricky.

I made a loop to run as long as the array provides prodId's and in this loop I create a new Row on this inner-table. These rows have the product info for each product. There is the product name, price, quantity, removal box.

I add the controls to the table and it all works great with one entry in the array.
If there are multiple entries in the array, its no go. I am figuring this is because there is only one of each product info variable...and the loop creates rows with reference to these variables.

I am kinda stuck and wondering if anyone has any suggestions or other ways of going about this.

One idea that I have been wondering is the possibility of creating a variable whose name includes another variable?

In other words, create:

Dim prodLink0 as new hyperlink
(WHERE the 0 is the value of a variable, such as Y)

Dim prodLink1 as new hyperlink
(WHERE the 1 is the value of a variable, such as Y)

Dim prodLink2 as new hyperlink
(WHERE the 2 is the value of a variable, such as Y)

If I could do this...then I'de be able to make individual variables for each table row.

Any help would be so helpful.
Thanks a ton in advance.i recommend visiting these websites for better info on shopping carts:

1- http://www.quantumsoftware.com.au/OnlineLearning/Programming/DotNet/ASP/ShoppingCart.aspx

2-
http://www.codeproject.com/useritems/shopcart.asp

3-
http://www.sitepoint.com/article/1055

best of luck.

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