Empty Cart leads to 'New Products' page

[subb]

Hi

I am trying to change the destination that the browser is sent when you empty your cart fully.

Currently if i do that i am sent to a page displaying 'Your Shopping Cart is empty.' and 'New Products For June'

The URL looks like this:

index.php?main_page=shopping_cart&product_id=2

What i would like to do is be forwarded to the front page, but upon looking at tpl_shopping_cart_default.php i have no idea what to edit.

Anyone with some insight would be much apreciated!

Thanks in advance

[DrByte]

So, if the customer clicks on the shopping cart link, and the cart is empty, you don't want to tell them that their cart is empty? Instead you just want them to jump directly to the home page without any explanation of why? ... so they can keep clicking on the link and wondering why they're not seeing the shopping cart?

If you don't think that's going to confuse your shoppers then just add this to the end of /includes/modules/pages/shopping_cart/header_php.php to point them to the home page:

  if ($flagHasCartContents == false) {
    zen_redirect(zen_href_link(FILENAME_DEFAULT));
  }

[subb]

Thanks for the explanation Dr Byte!

Thing is, you are absolutely correct about confusing customers, but is there any way to customise the 'Your Shopping Cart is empty' page?

If I could add some more detail to that page, along with an image, say, and a meta refresh command it would make much more sense to use it...

Any ideas?

Thanks again!

[DrByte]

You can customize the wording of the "your cart is empty" text simply by editing that text in your language files.
https://www.zen-cart.com/tutorials/index.php?article=38
https://www.zen-cart.com/tutorials/index.php?article=39

As to adding a meta refresh, you could try this trick:
- create a new file: /includes/modules/pages/shopping_cart/jscript_redirect_empty_cart.php
- put this in the file:

<?php if ($flagHasCartContents == false)  { ?>
<meta http-equiv="refresh" content="6;URL=<?php echo zen_href_link(FILENAME_DEFAULT); ?>"> 
<?php }  ?>

[Website Rob]

You also might be interesting in the following.

Admin > Index Listing

Show New Products on Main Page - Errors and Missing Products Page
Show Featured Products on Main Page - Errors and Missing Products Page
Show Special Products on Main Page - Errors and Missing Products Page
Show Upcoming Products on Main Page - Errors and Missing Products Page

Set all of the above to '0' or whichever ones you do not want to show below "Shopping Cart is Empty" msg.

[DrByte]

You also might be interesting in the following.

Admin > Index Listing

Show New Products on Main Page - Errors and Missing Products Page
Show Featured Products on Main Page - Errors and Missing Products Page
Show Special Products on Main Page - Errors and Missing Products Page
Show Upcoming Products on Main Page - Errors and Missing Products Page

Set all of the above to '0' or whichever ones you do not want to show below "Shopping Cart is Empty" msg.

Actually, those specific switches only apply to the "Index" page (hence the title "Index Listing").
There are similar switches in Admin->Configuration->Stock which affect the Shopping Cart page.