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Adding A Delivery Date

Written By Gary on Mar 10 2008 ·

Over in the official osCommerce Forum, someone wanted the ability to add a "delivery date" that the customer can choose to select.

I have no doubt that there is a pre-existing contribution that can handle this, bt I thought it would make an interesting exercise, to see if I could come up with something that is coded cleanly and, most importantly, works easily…

Introducing the Club osCommerce Date Picker!

This little mod took me about 15 minutes work. I added a text input using javascript on the checkout_shipping page, and created the value as a session. I input the session value into the database. Then pull the value from the database to display the customer preferred delivery date in the Admin area.

Here's a short video showing this;

If anyone wants the code, please let me know - it does involve some changes to core osCommerce files (though the changes are very minimal. If anyone wants it, I'll package it up ready for download.


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2 Comments

  1. Hello, I need the code. I appreciate if you could help me
    Best

    Comment by Nurlan — October 25, 2008 @ 11:05 pm


  2. Nurlan - here.

    Comment by Gary — October 27, 2008 @ 8:57 am


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