[Michael]

any cleaver ideas as to how to get the {$ITEM_NUMBER} of the item just purchased out on the return 'Thank you' page after payment has been completed?

{$ITEM_NUMBER} is the product number associated with the buy now button.

situation:(theme sage)
the user clicks on the 'buy now' button and gets sent to paypal from the 'store.php' page
/Some_Punk_Band/store.php

at paypal they pay the money and are shown a 'Return to merchant' button. Clicking on it takes them back to
/Some_Punk_Band/thank.php

which displays "Thank you for your purchase" but in the {debug} output the {$ITEM_NUMBER} of the product just purchased is not present.

Any good ideas as to how to get it there?


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[smith.kyle]

I'm actually not sure if PayPal even posts that number back to the Thank You page - I'm leaning towards that they don't, which would make it impossible to show, sorry!


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[Michael]

Your right, paypal posts nothing back.

Im currently thinking along the lines of setting the $_SESSION variable in some way, then picking it back up again on the thank you.

haven't found a way to get it working though.


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[smith.kyle]

Because of the way the Jamroom Theme generator works, it might not be possible. It's worth a try though - you can access session vars via smarty by:

{$smarty.session.var_name}


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kyle[at]jamroom.net

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[Michael]

thanks Kyle,

I also had another idea of setting a cookie with javascript on the 'buy now' submit then picking it up on the 'Thank you' page.

Can modules hook into the javascript function that are included already (jamroom_javascript.inc.js) and define a function to be included in there?

im guessing no, but if anyone would know it would be you.


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[smith.kyle]

Not that I know of - you'd need to implement your own javascript function, sorry!


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kyle[at]jamroom.net

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[Michael]

Got it!

inside the include/js/jamroom_javascript.inc.js that is already being included by default there is already a script that can be used to solve the problem.

jrSetCookie
jrReadCookie
jrEraseCookie

although i couldnt locate an instance inside jamroom where these functions are actually being used, they work perfect for this situation.

set all the wanted data on form submission, pick it up at the thankyou page and delete the cookie to stop dual processing.

Must be Bigguys forward thinking by putting the functions there, Super happy.

Thanks.


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[smith.kyle]

Awesome


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