External Form to be completed in purchase

[Ian2]

Hi,

Not sure if anyone has done this at all :)

For a couple of the items that I will be selling, we need to have detailed instructions from the customer.

What I thought of was instead of them clicking on a buy now button, and item going straight to the basket - I would like the user to be taken to a form, once that form is completed, and submitted the item is then added to the basket.

Has anyone ever seen this, or has any thoughts as to whether it is possible?

Cheers

[Jan]

Norman Rouxel has a solution for adding extra fields to a products details, this might do what you want it to do. See http://www.rouxel.cwc.net/actinicstuff.html and look for Multiple Other Info Prompts.

Regards,

[Ian2]

Hi,

Thanks - I did have a look at that option, but one is limited to a set number of characters in that box - so I will not get all that I wish to ask in the space.

I think for now, I will have to include a link to download a PDF form for the client to print out and fax over. Not the most ideal option for an online shop ;)

So if anyone has any thoughts I would be grateful.

[cdicken]

There was somone trying to do a similar thing earlier this month on the forums. The thread is here (http://community.actinic.com/showthread.php?s=&threadid=1768&highlight=popup).

That will maybe give you a couple of ideas. You will need to write your own form, but your web host should be able to provide you with a mailform script to use.

[NormanRouxel]

My "Multiple Other Info Prompts" patch allows you a maximum of 1000 characters of user input (that's an Actinic limit).

There's no Maximum length for an individual input field so customers could keep typing if they needed to.

Also it wouldn't be too hard to alter it so that some fields were TEXTAREA's instead of single lines.

Norman