Hyperlinks

Now we add the mandatory tags. they take the form of field name and value of the field name. Note that in an html link no quotes ( " ) are used within the html link with the exception of the beginning and the end. Doing so will cause the link to be invalid. That is, the browser will see the first " after the first " and assume that that is the end of the string and you will wind up with an invalid syntax window when the cart tries to open. Now, lets proceed to add the mandatory tags to the link so we can get our product into the cart (userid, product, price). There is no particular order required but I recommend that you be consistent with the order throughout all your links. It makes it easier to troubleshoot if the need should arise.

Note the ? immediately after the url. This signifies the end of the address and the start of the product information to be passed to the cart.. To look at it in English, it reads "the user identification is 1234567 and the product is a little red wagon and the price of the little red wagon is 29.95". Since no spaces are allowed in an html string we use the + sign to add a space when needed. Without the + sign it would look like LittleRedWagon in the cart. Note also that the $ sign is not used and the & symbol is mandatory to link the name and value pairs together so don't use it in your product description or you'll get a syntax error..

Now, let's add our "Buy Now" button

Buy Now

Note that a + sign is not required between Buy and Now as it is outside of the html string. Note also that we haven't included the qty field as the default is 1. If we sold our product with a minimum quantity of 5, we could insert the field like so.

Buy Now

If you click on the link below, please set the quantity to "0" in the cart and recalculate before you close the window

Buy Now

Product	Quantity	Price	Amount
Little Red Wagon		29.95	29.95

All prices are in US Dollars		Subtotal	29.95
		Shipping	0.00

		TOTAL	29.95

Just about done

So, now lets add our return link as we do want the to provide the customer with an easy way to buy some more of our products without having to find us all over again. The field follows the convention

return=www.yourdomain.com/yourpage.html

Now add it all together:

The above lines would normally be one continuous line, but I've inserted a line break to avoid having to scroll horizontally. Now you know all you need to know to add a Buy Now button to your products. It wasn't all that hard now, was it?