[ic] Re: intercept item insert in cart

[Ethan Rowe]

Mike Heins wrote:

>Quoting Ethan Rowe (ethan at endpoint.com):
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>>ic at 3edge.com wrote:
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>>>Alessandro Poletto writes:
>>>If you are using the foundation store I think you want to take a look in:
>>>templates/components/cart
>>>There's the information that is shown in the shopping cart ... and the 
>>>SKU of the item in the basket is then [item-code] afaik.
>>>I would think though that on average the placing of an item in the 
>>>shopping cart is logged (in some session files(?)) and you could 
>>>probably write something to analyse those? But not sure about that.
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>>I have a CartTrigger directive I'm planning on submitting to the core 
>>group for inclusion in the main Interchange distribution once I've 
>>tested it a bit more... it's only a week old or so.  It allows you to 
>>specify subroutines to execute whenever the cart contents change; the 
>>changes are passed to the subroutine such that the sub gets a reference 
>>to the affected cart, the new row, the old row, the action that 
>>occurred, and the cart name.  But it isn't ready just yet, and will of 
>>course need review by the IC core group.  Thus far it's working 
>>reasonably well, but my tests have been pretty simple.
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>Could you look at modifying the existing ItemAction directive 
>for this?
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Sure; if you have any words of wisdom on the subject, feel free to send 
'em along (either to me personally, here, or core list)...
- Ethan

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Ethan Rowe
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