RE: MV3:12 Discount Help Needed/ Gift Certificate

[Ryan Hertz <rhertz@gyb.baits.com>]

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Does [discount] take a arg of interpolate=1 ?

At 09:51 AM 5/4/99 , Russ wrote:
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>How can I get the discount variables to scope correctly?  I've tried using
>the [set] and [scratch] methods, but can't get that to work.
>
>Here's an example of something else I tried:
>
>[set currbal]
>[data base="userdb" field="balance" key="[data session username]"]
>[/set]
>[perl]
>if ([subtotal] > [scratch currbal])
>{
>[set discamt][scratch currbal]
>}
>if ([subtotal]<[scratch currbal])
>{
>[set discamt][subtotal][/set]
>}
>[/perl]
>[discount ENTIRE_ORDER]$s-[scratch discamt][/discount]
>[/if]
>
>This just returned errors like this:
>xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx 3gyda9C4:xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx - [04/May/1999:09:45:25 -0700]
>newcb /shop/
>newcb/ord/basket Discount ENTIRE_ORDER has bad formula. Returning normal
>subtota
>l.
>> Can't locate object method "scratch" via package "discamt" at (eval 95)
>line 1
>.
>>
>
>Any more clues?
>
>Russ
>
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>Subject: Re: MV3:12 Discount Help Needed/ Gift Certificate
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>At 04:18 PM 5/3/99 , Russ wrote:
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>>Hello,
>>
>>I am trying to implement a gift certificate system on a minivend store.  I
>>am tyeing the gift certificate to a login name on the userdb.  Incidently,
>I
>>give users a $5.00 discount just for creating an account, which I put in
>>their userdb file as a gift certificate.  This isn't the hard part.  The
>>hard part is getting the gift certificate amount to discount on the order.
>>The logic I have in place is this:
>>
>>[if session logged_in]
>><!--
>>[calc]
>>$currentbalance = [data base="userdb" field="balance" key="[data session
>>username]"]
>>[/calc]
>>[calc]
>>if ([subtotal] > $currentbalance)
>>{
>>$discountamount = $currentbalance
>>}
>>if ([subtotal]<$currentbalance)
>>{
>>$discountamount = [subtotal]
>>}
>>[/calc]
>>-->
>>[discount ENTIRE_ORDER]$s-$discountamount[/discount]
>>[/if]
>>
>>This checks to make sure the subtotal is greater than the balance of their
>>account (gift certificate amount).  It makes the discount amount no larger
>>than the subtotal and no larger than the balance of the account.
>>
>>The most recent problem I'm having is the discount ENTIRE_ORDER doesn't
>>carry through the checkout process.  It only shows up on the basket.html
>>page where I originally code it.  The only way to get the discount to show
>>up for the entire order is to put this code on every page in the checkout
>>process, including the report and reciept.  That doesn't jive with the
>>documentation, which indicates 'once discounted, always discounted'.
>
>Your variables are not scoping correctly - I imagine that inside a [calc]
>routine minivend will assume the variables to be local.  ??
>
>>
>>Any ideas?  Another problem is how to carry a value in the session to
>>multiple pages.  I want the $currentbalance and $discountamount to be

>>carried to more pages than the basket.html.  I'll need the discountamount
>at
>>the reciept page so I know how much to decrement the gift certificate field
>>in the userdb.
>>
>>Thanks in advance for any help,
>>
>>Russ
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