"Successfully added to cart" message stack - change position

[DrByte]

I can't speak for anyone else, but the reason I want this change is that my site is set to stay on the product info page after adding an item to the cart ...

In my experience, most stores who configure their cart that way make a HUGE mistake ... they have only a single little tiny button hidden somewhere for actually starting checkout.
If it's not clear how to proceed to checkout, people won't.
On the Shopping Cart page, it's very clear how to proceed to checkout and actually buy what one has been shopping for.

If you want to skip the use of the shopping-cart page, feel free ... but do your customers a favor and make sure you add a large "Proceed to Checkout" and/or "View My Shopping Cart Contents" button prominently in the upper half of the site.

[paul3648]

If you want to skip the use of the shopping-cart page, feel free ... but do your customers a favor and make sure you add a large "Proceed to Checkout" and/or "View My Shopping Cart Contents" button prominently in the upper half of the site.

Yes, that's a good idea. The person who started this thread got the idea of moving the "added to cart" confirmation from the zencartoptimization site, which has a lot of good ideas about how to streamline your website. As I recall, the idea behind staying on the product info page after selecting an item is to encourage more buying, and also to decrease confusion - "I'm on the shopping cart page, so I guess I have to checkout now."

The zencartoptimization idea seemed like a good idea at the time, but I suppose there are other ways to approach this - putting a big "continue shopping" button on the shopping cart page would be one.

[MagicMan]

How do we display this and or turn it off. where is the button in the admin again?

[paul3648]

I added an if statement to the includes/templates/YOUR_TEMPLATE/common/tpl_header.php file as so:

<!--bof Add to Cart Alert-->
<?php

if ($current_page_base == 'product_info'){
//do nothing
} else {
// Display all header alerts via messageStack:
if ($messageStack->size('header') > 0) {
echo $messageStack->output('header');
}
if (isset($_GET['error_message']) && zen_not_null($_GET['error_message'])) {
echo htmlspecialchars(urldecode($_GET['error_message']));
}
if (isset($_GET['info_message']) && zen_not_null($_GET['info_message'])) {
echo htmlspecialchars($_GET['info_message']);
} else {

}
}
?>
<!--eof Add to Cart Alert-->

This prevents the header alert from showing up on the product_info pages, but allows other alerts to show correctly. This is important if your product listing pages have an "add to cart" button that doesn't redirect them to the product page - the "add to cart" alert will show up properly.

I also moved the alert to the bottom of the header - just before the final </div>. This brings the alert closer to the eye level and more obvious.

[Berserker]

Did you still move the alert to your product info page and added that if statement or just added that if statement?

[Berserker]

Ok...I think I got the message in the product info page by adding the following to the tpl_product_info_display

<?php
// Display all header alerts via messageStack:
if ($messageStack->size('header') > 0) {
echo $messageStack->output('header');
}
if (isset($_GET['error_message']) && zen_not_null($_GET['error_message'])) {
echo htmlspecialchars(urldecode($_GET['error_message']));
}
if (isset($_GET['info_message']) && zen_not_null($_GET['info_message'])) {
echo htmlspecialchars($_GET['info_message']);
} else {

}
?>

And then adding paul3648's code to my tpl_header.

Everything seems to work but can someone please tell me what other messages are supposed to appear in the header apart from the "Successfully added product to cart" so I can test it out and see if they disappeared or not.

All the best...

[paul3648]

...what other messages are supposed to appear in the header apart from the "Successfully added product to cart" so I can test it out and see if they disappeared or not.

If you have an "add to cart" button on your product listing page - the one that shows a list of your all products - an "added to cart" alert should appear on that page (if you don't take the customer to the cart immediately).

[QuickInks]

Hi guys,

Great thread and just what I was looking for.
I've tried to follow the advice/suggestion here and it has worked but I get the "Successfully added Product to the cart.." alert showing where I want and also at the top of the page as it used to.

I added the suggested code to my tpl_header.php file and to my tpl_product_info_display file.

Take it I've missed something out? Any suggestions?

Berserker, I noticed you have it working ok on your site.