Thread: current Item count in shoppingcart.aspx

Hello, I am curious what I could do to get the total number of items in the shopping cart on shoppingcart.aspx? I am trying to calculate the shipping on that page instead of having "shipping is calculated during checkout" because i have a per item price for shipping based on how many items there are. Thanks

Just from a preliminary look,

You could run through each item in the cart, then get the quantity of the cart item, Depending on where you do this, I would imagine it would be a fairly small mod. If you have source you could take a look at the ShoppingCart class in the AspDotNetStorefront core.

Have you already taken a look at the shipping estimator? It may be exactly what you're looking to do. You could also use the token (!NUM_CART_ITEMS!) to get an integer representing the number of items in the cart (though normally this would be used for display on the site rather than calculations...hence the skin token format) or programmatically you could pass the CustomerID and the CartType to the ShoppingCart.NumItems method

Code:

ShoppingCart.NumItems(ThisCustomer.CustomerID, CartTypeEnum.ShoppingCart)

to get an integer value back representing the number of items in the cart.

worked perfect.. thanks