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JavaScript

Posted by Adam Ridgley
Adam Ridgley
12,255 Points

Javascript product quantity option

Hi all,

In my project I have a shopping cart which has a quantity option for each product in the cart, and then a total price at the end. I need to update the total price based on the quantity of each product. Problem is I'm not very good at Javascript so I was wondering if anyone could suggest how I can get something like this working?

Thanks, Adam

1 Answer

geoffrey
geoffrey
28,736 Points
geoffrey
geoffrey
28,736 Points

Why not having for each product an array with for exemple the name or id, price and quantity ? Such as this:

var productsInCart = [{"id":1,"price":25,"quantity":5}, {"id":2,"price":5,"quantity":1},{"id":3,"price":8,"quantity":1}];

Then you could just create a loop to multiply the cost of each product by Its quantity and then you add up everything...

    var totalCost = 0;

    for (var product in productsInCart){
         totalCost = totalCost+(productsInCart[product].price * productsInCart[product].quantity);
     }

Here is the link to js fiddle. http://jsfiddle.net/Azuk/0ab55tcz/, hope that helps.