"Back to Shopping" always goes back to homepage

**possum** · 30 Oct 2007, 11:56 AM

Hi,

If a user is in the shopping cart and selects "go back to shopping", they are returned to the site's homepage. Is it possible to have them returned to whatever page they were looking at when they added the product to their cart?

I've had feedback from a number of non-technical friends who've said that they find this counter-intuitive.

Thanks in advance for any thoughts you might have,

Possum.

**kuroi** · 30 Oct 2007, 01:49 PM

The behaviour that you want, is what Zen Cart normally does. If it's not doing this for you then there may be a problem with how your site is structured or with php sessions. But it's difficult to say more without seeing your site (and even then it may not be clear).

**possum** · 31 Oct 2007, 10:49 AM

Hi Kuroi,

Thanks for your answer to (both) my questions!

Here's a link to my website: http://www.possumbooks.com.au

and here's the code that is behind the "back to shopping" icon in the checkout page:

Code:

<!--bof shopping cart buttons-->
<div class="buttonRow forward"><a href="http://www.possumbooks.com.au/index.php?main_page=checkout_shipping"><img src="includes/templates/possumbooks/buttons/english/button_checkout.gif" alt="Checkout" title=" Checkout " width="84" height="21" /></a></div>
<div class="buttonRow back"><a href="http://www.possumbooks.com.au/index.php?main_page=index"><img src="includes/templates/possumbooks/buttons/english/button_continue_shopping.gif" alt="Continue Shopping" title=" Continue Shopping " width="132" height="21" /></a></div>

<!--eof shopping cart buttons-->

Any further thoughts would be great!

Cheers,

Possum.

**possum** · 31 Oct 2007, 01:19 PM

Hi again,

A bit more experimenting and I have a better idea of what's going on now. When I go to the shopping cart from the product_info page the 'back to shopping' button correctly returns me to the product_info page

When I go to the shopping cart from any of the various product_listing pages, the 'back to shopping' button returns me to the home page. Correctly or incorrectly I don't know, but my personal preference would be to return to the same product_listing.

Possum.

**possum** · 2 Nov 2007, 10:45 PM

I've found an answer to this problem.

I updated line 982 of /includes/functions/functions_general.php which read

Code:

 if (sizeof($_SESSION['navigation']->path)-2 > 0) {

to

Code:

 if (sizeof($_SESSION['navigation']->path)-1 > 0) {

Now I'm returning to the product list from the checkout when I go directly there from the product list page (without going to product info). I haven't found anything that this breaks yet. I'll update this post if I do.

Cheers,

Possum

**jacdesigner** · 28 May 2010, 07:50 PM

I am having this same problem on a recent 1.3.9 site. When you add a product to the cart, visit the cart and click on the Continue Shopping button (back to shop), it takes you to the website index page. We would rather have the default "back" behavior.

We have not modified the default template for the shopping cart page. I checked the template default just in case, and the zencart_back behavior is there.

Does anyone have a suggestion as to why the continue shopping link appears to be directing to the primary domain (thus sending to the homepage)?

Here is the link to the store: http://www.brazoscollection.com/index/index_php

Will the above suggested code work with a newer 1.3.9 site?

**jacdesigner** · 28 May 2010, 08:04 PM

A little more information - even weirder - this seems to be intermittent. Most of the time it directs you to the main domain homepage, occassionally after adding several products to the cart it does go back a page. Then if you shop a little more and add something else, the continue link takes you to the homepage again. Not a consistent pattern!