Clearing shopping cart

[retekdirect]

Hi folks

Been searching and searching and can find very much on this at all.

I'm wondering if there's any existing methods to incorporate a one click "Clear cart" on the ShoppingCart page. The way it works (in V7) is check the "Delete" box and click update. Surely it should be possible to add a form button to the left of update (which i tried) to clear the cart?

I tried the augmented Cancel button script (which clears the cart if Cancel is clicked during the ordering phase - page 50 of the Advanced user guide) without much success, and also tried to use it on the View Shopping Cart page again without success.

We've had a few customers wondering why there are still products in the cart, even before completing a transaction - it would be nice to provide an obvious and pervasive "Clear Cart" button.

Thanks in advance,

Ryan
www.retekdirect.co.uk

[dave_finlayson]

Ryan,

I think this post might help:-

http://community.actinic.com/showthr...t=clear+cookie

David

[retekdirect]

Hi David

I happened upon this post earlier - it appears to be very similar to the code in the Adv Guide, if not the same? (albeit slightly modified, or added to the guide)

As i understand it, it should launch a JavaScript pop up for confirmation, yes? I haven't been able to get this working. I'll give this exact code a try when i get back in tomorrow morning.

Thanks,

Ryan

[retekdirect]

Quick update:

Cart clearing is working now - turned out it was a problem with the coding (slightly squiffy copy and paste job by myself).

Cheers Dave T (for the code itself) and Dave F (for re-pointing me to the thread in question)


Ryan

[DaveT]

You're very welcome.

[DaveT]

Just had a further idea on looking at your site (nice site by the way!).

You could also say in a body onload function:

if (parseInt(getCartItem(3)) == 0) {
document.forms[0].clear.disabled = true;
}

so that the Clear button is consistent with the rest of the buttons in the current order state.

[retekdirect]

Oooh, nice one Dave - was wondering about that earlier actually, thought it was hard-coded in the catalogue itself.

JavaScript-tastic!