How to save custom entries to an order and put out a custom link on thanks page

Hi there,

You could do it, but it won’t be a simple task.

You’ll need to:

• When the Add to cart button is clicked, get the text information – for this you could probably use the javascript hook wp.hooks.doAction( 'PC.fe.add_to_cart.before', this );
• Add this information to the cart form, in order for it to be submitted
• In PHP, add the submitted text to the cart data (probably using the filter woocommerce_add_cart_item_data)

Here’s an example of the JS hook you could use:

// hook triggered when pressing the Add to cart button
wp.hooks.addAction( 'PC.fe.add_to_cart.before', 'your_namespace', function( view ) { 
    // Get the add to cart form, which is stored in the view
    var $cart_form = view.$cart;
    // now you can append the data to the form.
} );

If you’re not familiar with the JS hooks, you can take a look at this starter plugin, which enqueues all the required scripts to work with the configurator: https://github.com/marcusig/pc-custom-code-bootstrap

Marc

Hi Marc,

thanks for your quick reply!

Could you please give me another example on how to append data to the form?

Thanks

JD

You can try something like this:

jQuery( '.mkl_pc_layers .custom-html.active textarea#heading' ).clone().appendTo( $cart_form );

This should clone the textarea and add it to the form element.
Note that you currently do not have a name attribute on your textareas, so their values might not be sent with the form data.

Hi Marc,

thank you for your reply.

I added the names for the textareas and got it working with your code – the only thing that’s not working is the output on the thank you page.

I added the following code to my thank-you.php

if ( $heading  = $order->get_meta('heading') ) {
  echo '<p>'. __("Heading") . ': ' . $heading . '</p>';
}
if ( $body = $order->get_meta('bodytext') ) {
  echo '<p>'. __("Body") . ': ' . $body . '</p>';
}

Unfortunately there is no output for that.

I also tried to find the fields in the complete order with the following code:

<?php do_action( 'woocommerce_thankyou', $order->get_id() ); ?>

Nothing to find in this result, too.

Do you see anything i’m doing wrong?

Thanks in advance!

Hi Marc,

i know, you have got a lot to do, but could you give me a hint on this? Or could you relate me to someone who can help me?

Many thanks

JD

Hi JD,

It’s difficult to say what’s wrong without seeing the full code. Feel free to send it via this form if you’d rather not share it publicly: https://wc-product-configurator.com/contact

Marc