Posting product details to cart from non-KonaKart page

[ticklishturtletoe]

Hello,

The product I sell is highly customizable.  All of the customization happens in a Previewer where the customer can visualize their changes as they make them.  We currently use X-Cart which lets us post the product, including a dynamic thumbnail, to the cart from there.

Can I do such a thing with KonaKart?  If so, what's the best approach?

Thanks in advance,
TTT

[trevor]

A KonaKart product can have any number of options and when selected these are automatically displayed in the cart. When you save the basket item and read it back from the database, the productId of the basket item contains a code which describes the actual combination of product + options added to the cart. You could use this to pick up the correct image.

[ticklishturtletoe]

When you save the basket item and read it back from the database, the productId of the basket item contains a code which describes the actual combination of product + options added to the cart. You could use this to pick up the correct image.

Thank you for your reply, Trevor.  So, let me see if I understand your suggestion and also give you a few more details of how I'm currently doing this with X-Cart.  On my non-KonaKart page, I have an Add to Cart button, which will handle the business of adding the custom item to the shopping cart.  The "options" of the custom item are:  Text, Size, Length, Color, and Layout.  Are you suggesting that I can save the item to the database, which will cause it to appear there when the cart page is displayed?

About the product image:  it didn't exist before the customer's customization of the item, because all of those options affect the appearance of the product image.  The way we handle this in X-Cart is to have 6 different "products" which really act as product templates for us.  And although the customer can add the same product to the cart, the options are what makes it unique and each image, which is based on those options, is completely unique and didn't exist until the customer created it at that moment.

I'd like you (or anybody else) to help me understand how to approach this with KonaKart.

Thanks in advance,
TTT