Populate custom field via URL?

[balebond]

Does anyone know if there is a way to populate a custom product field via url like you can with variables like language and promocode?

 

I know I can do this for example:

 

cart.php?a=add&pid=1&promocode=TEST

 

 

Is there anyway to accomplish it for custom fields... something like this?:

 

cart.php?a=add&pid=1&customfield[20]=sometext

[balebond]

Anybody know on this? It would be extremely helpful to me.

 

Matt?

[moronhater]

I want to know the same thing. I've search forums for last 3 hrs. Pissing me off. No-one can answer this.

[franklaval]

Ya same here

[Erik H.]

Anyone thought of mailing the SUPPORT team instead of placing a reply in this topic?

(just my 2 cents)

[rmccny]

You can do it with a little jQuery magic...

 

Put this in any template that you want to populate a custom field:

{literal}
<script type="text/javascript">
$(document).ready(function(){
   $("input[name=customfield\[CUSTOMFIELD\]]").val("{literal}{$smarty.get.VAR}{/literal}");
});
</script>
{/literal}

Change CUSTOMFIELD to the numeric ID of the field, and change VAR to the name of the variable passed in the URL.

 

Works like a charm, I use it in many areas of my site. It can also be accomplished using actionhooks, however it's a bit more complicated.

[franklaval]

When a put your code in the configureproducts.tpl i got a blank page ???

[rmccny]

That's what I get for not actually testing code before posting it. There was a typo in the {literal}s. This one definately works because I just tested it.

 

This code works:

 

{literal}
<script type="text/javascript">
$(document).ready(function(){
   $("input[name=customfield\[CUSTOMFIELD\]]").val("{/literal}{$smarty.get.VAR}{literal}");
});
</script>  
{/literal}

Change CUSTOMFIELD to the numeric ID of the field, and change VAR to the name of the variable passed in the URL.

[weblantis]

Here is another approach which I think is even more straight forward:

 

 

http://forum.whmcs.com/showthread.php?p=138610#post138610