On add to cart auto redirect back to product page.

[danlou84]

I dont want the "shopper" to be taken/see the shopping cart on adding to cart.

I want it to on clicking add to cart, to go to the cart then auto redirect back to the product page. Thus updating the shopping cart summary in the layout.

Almost every eccommerce site I see adds to cart automatically without leaving pages.

Im guessing its frame/div id targeted code.

I have tried changing the "bounce page delay" to 1 second.

THINKING this would fix it. But it hasnt.

Is that what it was ment for?

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[danlou84]

Just thinking. Could I put the code for the "continue shopping" button in that order00 page (or whatever its called) into the body tag onload redirect?

As I have a proceed to checkout link in the layout anyway.

Had another Idea.

The default in built cart within actinic to have the auto redirect.

Then another layout called cart_layout has all the cart inserts in.

Basically a duplicate of the cart that I can link to directly.

So I would "display the bulk area of cart layout" within said template.

So this would when adding cart to auto redirect back to the product page then the link to "view cart" within the outter layout would go to the cart_layout page I made separate.

Thoughts?

[wjcampbe]

You are flogging a dead horse, sorry.

[danlou84]

What a pointless post.

[NormanRouxel]

What Bill is saying is that you will be undertaking an enormous amount of work in trying to achieve this and you'll probably not get it to work as you want.

You'll need to acquire a reasonable understanding of what ACTINIC.pm, ActinicOrder.pl and ShoppingCart.pl do - and that's about 20,000 lines of Perl.

[fergusw]

What a pointless post.

Bill was merely pointing out that your line of thinking was not going to result in any degree of success.

If you had searched the knowledge Base (click on top right image link in forum) you might get what you are after

[danlou84]

what about calling the action_continue command onload?

[NormanRouxel]

what about calling the action_continue command onload

You orginally asked about completely skipping the Cart display.

Now you're saying you want it to briefly load and then dismiss itself. I think that would scare your customers - who might wonder what was going on.

[danlou84]

You orginally asked about completely skipping the Cart display.

Now you're saying you want it to briefly load and then dismiss itself. I think that would scare your customers - who might wonder what was going on.

Saving myself alot of editing though.

Its the easiest option IMHO.

I doubt it would be noticeable for more than a few seconds depending on the speeds.

All I need is an auto redirect to ReturnToLastPage on adding to cart/running .pl script

[fergusw]

If you had searched the knowledge Base (click on top right image link in forum) you might get what you are after

I refer you back to the link in my earlier post. Does that not help you?

[danlou84]

Just working through it now, yeah thanks great

[wjcampbe]

what about calling the action_continue command onload?

As Fergus said

Bill was merely pointing out that your line of thinking was not going to result in any degree of success.

Any change to the checkout process can quickly lead to disaster, and should not be undertaken lightly. I have over 20 years of programming experience and three with Actinic, and I would not willingly undertake such a large modification for such little result.

[danlou84]

WORKS PERFECTLY!!!

Thanks a mill, Fergus!

PERFEEEEEECT! exactly what I was after. And alot easier than I thought.

Cheers.

[danlou84]

Hey, Since adding the above.

The mini cart no longer works. Yet it does work when viewing the cart (you see the contents of it with the mini cart) in any other part of the site it says

No items in shopping cart :S

ideas?

[TraceyG]

Hi,

Without being able to see your site, I would guess that this is a cookie issue. Is the url when in the cgi-bin different to when in the rest of the site (ie 'http://mydomain.co.uk/cgi-bin/' and 'http://www.mydomain.co.uk' - note the missing 'www'). The cookie can only be read from the url it was created under.