How to delete products from shopping cart when user session ends

[rohitsax]

I want all products from the shopping cart deleted when a user logs out or session ends - irrespective of whether they ordered or not.

Is there way to do this?

Thanks!

[Ajeh]

It is easier to do this when the customer logs in as you do not know when the customer logs out ... or more specifically, you know the customer is logged out but you don't know who the customer is as the session dies first ...

So, in the login header where you normally restore the cart you would want to empty it for the customer ...
/includes/modules/pages/login/header_php.php

You don't want to just skip the restore as it is getting what is in the database tables so you need to reset it ...

Changing:

        // bof: not require part of contents merge notice
        // restore cart contents
        $_SESSION['cart']->restore_contents();
        // eof: not require part of contents merge notice 

to read:

        // bof: not require part of contents merge notice
        // restore cart contents
        $_SESSION['cart']->restore_contents();
        // eof: not require part of contents merge notice
        $_SESSION['cart']->reset(true); 

[rohitsax]

Thanks... that does seem to reset the existing cart... however all of the 'temporary' visitors cart items are also deleted.

I just want the previous shopping cart items deleted. So when the visitor shops again and adds items, then logs in he gets only the current products he's added and nothing from the previous session.

HELP!!

[DrByte]

Good point.

Changing it like this should work:

        // restore cart contents
        $_SESSION['cart']->restore_contents(); 

becomes:

        $current_cart = $_SESSION['cart']->contents;
        $_SESSION['cart']->reset(true);
        $_SESSION['cart']->contents = $current_cart;
        $_SESSION['cart']->calculate(); 

[rohitsax]

Thanks very much! This has solved it!

[Trees2wood]

For anybody doing this , when the customer logs out the message says "You have been logged off ....... If you had items in your cart they have been saved , they will be restored when you return"

Well if you made the changes above thats not the case anymore , you'll need to change the message they see by editing this file:
- includes/languages/english/logoff.php