creating a link from shopping cart back to main website

[irori]

If you look in the tpl_header.php in the default template, you will see how the link for the Home page uses:

<?php echo '<a href="' . HTTP_SERVER . DIR_WS_CATALOG . '">'; ?><?php echo HEADER_TITLE_CATALOG; ?></a>

If your link is to go to your address:
http://your_domain_name.com

or in your case .com.au

You really are better using a relative link than a specific link, as it is a good coding habit ...

For your domain, you could use:

<?php echo '<a href="' . HTTP_SERVER . '">'; ?>Main Website</a>

Relative links are always a better idea than hard coded links, as a rule, for secure vs non-secure pages and for moves to root or sub-directories on the same site or moves to other domains ...

Thank you for this information! using relative links as you say makes sense and the link works perfect too, I would love to understand though how exactly it is linking back to my main website? I am guessing the HTTP_SERVER is the part that furnishes the information of where to link back to? How does it do this? I understand how Keneso's resolve form of linking works but I don't quite understand how this works!?

[Ajeh]

If you peek at the file:
/includes/configure.php

it knows the information for your site, where HTTP_SERVER is defined to be your domain name ...

In this instance, you know you want to go to your domain and not the secure page, just because you might be on a secure page ...

Had you wanted to maintain that relationship, of switching between secure and non-secure, there is a function for that as well ...

[irori]

If you peek at the file:
/includes/configure.php

it knows the information for your site, where HTTP_SERVER is defined to be your domain name ...

In this instance, you know you want to go to your domain and not the secure page, just because you might be on a secure page ...

Had you wanted to maintain that relationship, of switching between secure and non-secure, there is a function for that as well ...

Thank you again! much appreciated !