Add 'plus' 'minus' in place of 'add to cart' in opencart

Question

I want to replace add to cart with 2 buttons that are plus and minus in OpenCart 2.0.1.1, Now i am unable to code for minus button properly. I have added plus and mius butto

Answer 1

The problem here is with standard opencart since 2.0 that post fields with an index longer than 64 characters are ignored (on some systems, at least for my customer).

So if you have a product without options than the field quantity[index] is received by a post request because the index is lesser than 64 characters.But if the product have an option, than the index is greater than 64 characters and the field is not received in a post request (via ajax or not).

The provider from my customer don't want to change this on a shared server, my solution is look how it works in an older version of opencart (I think it is only used in the program /system/library/cart.php) and take it over in 2.0 and your problem have solved .. the index is shorter in older versions .. because not all fields have used for base64_encode ..

Look in the html code of your shopping cart and find the field quantity[..] and count the characters of your index .. for me when longer than 64 characters (e.g. product option used) the field is not received anymore in a post request (via ajax or not) ..

Maybe when you have an own server, you don't have this problem ..