Membership Type with Drop-Down

Hi there,

On my web site I'm planning to sell digital products, therefore I will have a lot of products to sell. When I add a product to the list, the user gets to choose the product from the "Membership Type" list.

The "Membership Type" type list is currently a click-able option, is it possible to have the options within a drop-down box? Rather than a long list. I believe it is possible, if so, how would I go about adding this? What part of which template do I need to modify?

Kind regards.

If you are selling many one off digital products, I think a shopping cart would be more appropriate than a membership system.

David

Hey David,

Thanks for your response. I've been searching for a shopping cart system for my web site, however, aMember is the most intergrate-able in terms of looks with my current HTML/PHP web site.

Do you think you could recommend me any shopping cart scripts? So far, aMember seems to be the best, unfortunately that's a membership type system.

Again, appreciate your response.

Kind regards.

Hey skippybosco,

In overall I will be selling 24 products, possibly more. These are all eGoods; which can be downloaded onto your computer the same day. They can be categorised in smaller lists of products but they won't be. As each product will be sold as a single stand alone product and not with other products.

I'd like to stick with aMember, the only thing I need to know is how to change the "Membership Type" selection from options to a drop down. And if I do go with a shopping cart script, I'd like it so that I can integrate it with my current web site which is coded using HTML and php, aMember can do this easily.

How about ejunkie?

David

@ hauzer:

replace the following code in templates/signup.html (lines 18-20)

Code:

<input class="required"  type="radio" id="product{$p.product_id}" name="product_id" value="{$p.product_id|escape}"
        {if $p.product_id == $smarty.request.product_id }checked="checked"{/if}
        />

with this:

Code:

<select name="product_id" size="1">
    <option value="">#_TPL_MEMBER_SELECT#</option>
{foreach from=$products_to_renew item=p}
    <option value="{$p.product_id}"
    {if $p.product_id == $smarty.request.product_id}selected="selected"{/if}>{$p.title} ({$p.terms}) 
    </option>

Also make sure the select multiple products is switched off in aMember control panel.

(This snippet of code comes from templates/member.html)

Sorry for the late response everyone. I haven't got round to trying out the code you gave me erwinvdb, but I'm sure it'll work. If it does, then all my problems have been answered. A great thanks, if you want me to add a link back to your web site then I will do so to show my appreciation.

Also, sorry for not describing my situation in detail skippybosco, I guess I shouldn't have used the "a lot" term for describing my products, however, thanks for replying.

Also, a great thanks to everyone who replied.

Sorry for the bump, however, erwinvdb that code doesn't seem to work.

The error I receive:

Code:

ERROR [256] Smarty error: [in signup.html line 24]: syntax error: mismatched tag {/if}. expected {/foreach} (opened line 20). (Smarty_Compiler.class.php, line 2198) in line 1102 of file /home/skinsbuy/public_html/customer/smarty/Smarty.class.php 

Thanks for your reply, however, when I do what erwinvdb provided, thereafter adding your (alexander) code, it gives me another error. I currently have 15 products, each with it's own bullet point (known as 'radio' type input field) instead of a drop-down which I want. After applying the code(s) it gives me 15 different drop-downs:



Each with no content in, it just states "** Select Product **" in all drop downs.

I've tried to make the bullet points a drop-down myself, unfortunately no success, this is what I did:

in templates/signup.html find

Code:

    {foreach from=$products item=p} 
    {if count($products)>1}
    {if $config.select_multiple_products}
    <input class="required" type="checkbox" id="product{$p.product_id}" name="product_id[]" value="{$p.product_id|escape}"
        {if in_array($p.product_id, (array)$smarty.request.product_id)}checked="checked"{/if}
        />
    {else}
<input class="required"  type="radio" id="product{$p.product_id}" name="product_id" value="{$p.product_id|escape}"
        {if $p.product_id == $smarty.request.product_id }checked="checked"{/if}
        />
    {/if}{* end if $config.select_multiple_products *}
    {else}
    <input type="hidden" id="product{$p.product_id}" name="product_id" value="{$p.product_id}" />
    {/if}   
        <label for="product{$p.product_id}"><b>{$p.title}</b> ({$p.terms})<br />
        <span class="small">{$p.description}</span></label><br />
    {if $p.price <= 0.0 }     {assign var="paysys_id_not_required" value="1"}    {/if}        
    {/foreach}

then I replaced this with:

Code:

{if $config.member_select_multiple_products}
    {foreach from=$products_to_renew item=p} 
    <input type="checkbox" id="product{$p.product_id}" name="product_id[]" value="{$p.product_id|escape}"
        {if in_array($p.product_id, (array)$smarty.request.product_id)}checked="checked"{/if}
        />
        <label for="product{$p.product_id}"><b>{$p.title} ({$p.terms})</b><br />
        <span class="small">{$p.description}</span></label><br /><br />
    {if $p.price <= 0.0 }
    {assign var="paysys_id_not_required" value="1"}
    {/if}        
    {/foreach}
{else}
<select name="product_id" size="1">
    <option value="">#_TPL_MEMBER_SELECT#</option>
{foreach from=$products_to_renew item=p}
    <option value="{$p.product_id}"
    {if $p.product_id == $smarty.request.product_id}selected="selected"{/if}>{$p.title} ({$p.terms}) 
    </option>
    {if $p.price <= 0.0 }
    {assign var="paysys_id_not_required" value="1"}
    {/if}        
{/foreach}
</select>
{/if}
{if $paysys_id_not_required }
      <input type="hidden" name="paysys_id_not_required" value="for javascript" />
{/if}

This seemed to work perfectly, however, it just gave me a drop-down with only one selectable option, "** Select Product **"

P.S. If this drop-drop option eventually works, I still need to have the "Signup Link Wizard" working intact. So that I can automatically make a user select a product.

Hey alexander,

Thanks for your response, that seems to fix the radio type input fields into drop-downs perfectly, however, there is a problem unfortunately. And, the only problem I was worried about.

When I pre-select the product, I want the user to have the product I chose. When I create a link, it just seems to only select the first option. For example, when I give a person this URL: http://www.example.com/signup.php?product_id=15&hide_paysys=paypal_r It is set to choose the product 15 for them automatically, however, using this drop-down, it automatically (no matter what URL I give them) selects the first option on the drop-down for them. I would like this "Setup Link Wizard" to work, if possible.

Thanks, if not, then I guess I could still use the radio type buttons, but I rather wish I didn't have to.

Thank you so far for all response.

Sorry for my late response, I couldn't visit the forum any sooner.
BUT... I see that Alexander came to save the day

WOW! Thank you so much, more than words can describe. Thank you! It works more than perfect.