Adding text boxes

The products that I am selling require personalzation. How can I add several text imput areas for the buyer to define what they want. If possible the best case senerio would be that this gets passed to the shopping cart and is included in the order information that I receive. If this is not possible, is there a way to redirect them to a form immediatlety after ordering and how would I link the order and the form.

Hope I didnt confuse you

Thanks Rick Munger
fantastic Product

Adding Text Boxes

I am experimenting with Mal's cart and so far the following code seems to work quite well.

Text imput areas for the buyer to define what they want:
<textarea name="product[]" cols="28" rows="2"></textarea>

The code if I can describe it is: Left Bracket textarea name="product[]" cols="28" rows="2" right bracket left bracket /textarea right bracket

It gets passed to Mal's cart and the buyer can use any payment method available.

Posting HTML Code

Here is what you are stating in a presentable format for other users to see:

HTML code for a Text imput area where buyers can define what they want:

<textarea name="product[]" cols="28" rows="2"></textarea>

Results in the following:

Note: Anytime you want to post actual HTML code, place the code between the <code>...</code> tags

Sam Raheb
XLEcom Program Developer

RE: Adding text boxes

The answer is dependent on which shopping cart you use.

For Mal's cart, go to your account to set up a customer text input field, just use the CUSTOMER MESSAGE in Mal's Cart Setup under MESSAGES AND GENERAL SETTINGS.

For Paypal, I know the buyer can add a note to the purchase order during the transaction, but I have not researched into this particular subject using Paypal's shopping cart.

For your Information: If you are a Paypal user, you can still use Mal's e-commerce shopping cart. Mal's cart can port all final shopping cart transactions to Paypal if desired.

Sam Raheb
XLEcom Program Developer