continue shopping button - redirection not workig

And the next problem ... maybe I have bad karma or so

I want the customer to be redirected to the product category page after clicking on the "continue shopping" button. Because I only have one category I don't need this workaround with editing a file that I found searching this forum. The "Continue shopping button's URL" field on the "checkout" tab should do that too. But it seems this isn't working, nothing happens after clicking the button (except of closing the popup notice) no matter what URL I insert in this field.

The button is also displayed if the URL field is empty, according to a post here in the forum the button should only be displayed IF there is a URL to redirect ...

I see ... on the checkout the button works and redirects the user to whatever URL I set. ^^

But I need a redirection for the button in the popup. There is no sense in this button if it's only closing the popup. It's quite uncomfortable for the user to first click on the back button in the browser or clicking in the menu to go back to the category after putting a product in the cart.

Edit: Let the user go back threw the back button in the browser is bad for another reason too: the cart module isn't updated and therefore the user won't see the product in the cart

Thanks but your code isn't working. I tried to figure out why but I don't know. Maybe there is a problem with the whole quotation marks and escaping them?!

This code works:

$this->cartClass->displayButton(JText::_('CONTINUE_SHOPPING'),'continue_shopping',$this->params,'','window.top.location.href=\'index.php?option=com_hikashop&view=product&layout=listing&Itemid=111\'; return false;','id="hikashop_add_to_cart_continue_button"');

Hello, perhaps a very basic question but I would like the Continue Shopping button to just be a back button.

Thanks
Iain

Hi,

You can edit the view "Checkout / step" in HikaShop > Display > Views, and at the end of the file, you can replace

echo $this->cart->displayButton(JText::_('CONTINUE_SHOPPING'),'continue_shopping',$this->params,JRoute::_($this->continueShopping),'window.location=\''.JRoute::_($this->continueShopping).'\';return false;','id="hikashop_checkout_shopping_button"');

Thank you for that but I can't get the code to do anything, I have tried history.back() or history.back(-1) but nothing works. I have also tried to change the code so that it uses the code of RemoteC and get it to move to a different page. But nothing.

Any help would be very much appreciated.

Iain

Instead of the code given, try to use this one:

?><a href="javascript:history.back()">Your button</a><?php

Thank you for that, found what was wrong, the code is in Checkout > Notice and changed

<?php echo $this->cartClass->displayButton(JText::_('CONTINUE_SHOPPING'),'continue_shopping',$this->params,'','try{ window.top.document.getElementById(\'sbox-window\').close(); }catch(err){ window.top.SqueezeBox.close(); } return false;','id="hikashop_add_to_cart_continue_button"'); ?>

to

<a href="javascript:history.back()">Continue Shopping</a>

Many Thanks
Iain

Ok you were talking about this continue shopping button

Well, actually me thinking you were talking about that one. At present I have a nasty text line which says "continue shopping" how can I make this look like the other one within a button.

Thank You

You have to add an input button like that:

<input id="hikashop_checkout_shopping_button" class="btn button hikashop_cart_input_button" type="button" onclick="javascript:history.back()" value="Continue shopping" name="continue_shopping">

I'm using essential v2.3.3

I have a very simple cart. I have only one category (default) and I would like to be able to redirect my customer back to the category page when they click on the "Continue Shopping" button on the popup notice. It works fine with the checkout page "Continue Shopping" button.

I have tried without success to modify the code to redirect to a specific page (not a programmer, but I try).

The cloest I have come is using this recommended code in the checkout/notoice.php

echo $this->cartClass->displayButton(JText::_('CONTINUE_SHOPPING'),'continue_shopping',$this->params,'','window.top.location.href=\''.JRoute::_($this->config->get('continue_shopping')).'\'; return false;','id="hikashop_add_to_cart_continue_button"');

Hi,

In the view "checkout / notice", you have to replace the code:

<?php echo $this->cartClass->displayButton(JText::_('CONTINUE_SHOPPING'),'continue_shopping',$this->params,'','window.parent.hikashop.closeBox(); return false;','id="hikashop_add_to_cart_continue_button"'); ?>

<input type="button" onclick="window.parent.location.href = 'www.yoursite.com'; return false;" class="btn button" value="<?php echo JText::_('CONTINUE_SHOPPING'); ?>"/>

That did it!
Thank you so much.

I spoke too soon. Sorry.
So it is returning to my category page properly now after adding an item to the shopping cart and clicking on "Continue Shopping" in the popup dialog box, but then the shopping cart is emptied upon return. This only happens the first time. If I add an item again, it will remain in the shopping cart after clicking on the Continue Shopping button in the popup.

Update: with more testing, I have found clearing out the cookies in the browser makes it work properly, sort of. It will work the first time I open the browser, add an item to the cart, then click on "Continue Shopping" in the popup. After I check out, if I go back to the category page, select a product, add to cart, (which it clearly adds to the cart) then click on the "Continue Shopping" button in the popup, the cart will clear out to empty. Weird.

I'm using Firefox 33.0.
and Internet Explorer 11.0.12
and Chrome 37.0.2062.124 m
Where it was happening all the time, it's now only happening occasionally.
I've posted a short video showing the malfunction
www.3d-web.com/IMG_0057.MOV
I wish it would either happen every time or not at all, but this occasionally makesit difficult to track down.

Update: Just noticed that if I hit the back key on the browser, the shopping cart WILL have the item in the cart! Hopefully that's a clue.