Cart Summary Sidebox Make URL's

[limelites]

Hi All,

I have this cart summary mod installed on my site, displaying in the header at www.limelites.co.uk

My question is how to make this mod behave like other carts I see on other sites. I would like the text in the cart summary to be clickable and direct to the shopping cart, but only when there is something in the cart.

Does anyone know how to do this?

[s_t_e_v_e]

What is the name and link to the mod you have installed... Should be rather straightforward to add a link to shopping cart..

[limelites]

Hi Steve,

It was the Cart Summary mod here:

http://www.zen-cart.com/index.php?ma...roducts_id=345

It would be straightforward to add a link to the cart, but I'd struggle to add a dynamic link that only became clickable when the cart had something added, so only when cart contents >=1 ?

[s_t_e_v_e]

You could try...

<?php if ($_SESSION['cart']->count_contents() == 0) { ?>
   <p>nothing in cart - so no link required</p>
<?php  } else { ?>
   <a href="">something in cart so create a link..</a>
<?php }?>

If that doesnt help, I'll take a look at the mod...

[limelites]

Hi Steve,

Thanks for that... It's working, you've certainly got the right coding but I wonder how I might add the URL to the existing text in the cart summary.

When the cart is empty, this is the text:

Items in Cart: 0
Weight: 0kgs
Amount: £0.00


How easy would it be to change that code so that the whole of the existing text changes to red font and becomes clickable?

The other issue I had was with the little image of the cart I've used. Ideally, this should be clickable when the cart is active too. I've had to cheat with that image though as I've actually positioned it on my main site logo so it appears as part of the cart. I realise it should be a background image applied to #navCartMainSummary.... I had this applied originally like this:

#navMainCartSummary {
position: relative; left: 885px; top:25px;
width: 10%;
height: 70px;
text-align: left;
color: #000000;
background-image: url("../images/shopping_cart.png");
background-position:right;
background-repeat: no-repeat;
} 

... which was working great, but which brings me to another problem with my poor html skills :-) I can't seem to force the Items in Cart---Weight---Amount each onto a new line of their own. I tried it with <p> in the language define file but it makes it all screwy..... I'm having to make them take up a new line using a 10% width control in the stylesheet above which isn't ideal as I can't apply the background image so the little cart could never be clickable along with the text.

Hope you can understand what I'm trying to describe. It's a hard one to put across. I could illustrate exactly what I mean by sending some adaptive screenshots?

[s_t_e_v_e]

I'll download the mod.. and look at the code... If you want the shopping basket clickable, then remove it from the background so it can be included as a small pic... .

[limelites]

Hi Steve,

I've removed the cart pic from the main background image, so it can be included as a small pic....

Here is a link to the mod, together with the file I'd been working on:

http://www.limelites.co.uk/CartContentsSidebox.rar

[limelites]

For anyone interested in having a dynamic shopping cart like the one Steve's just created for my site at www.limelites.co.uk then feel free to download the full version here:

http://www.limelites.co.uk/Active_Ca..._Limelites.rar

I've submitted this to contributions for review, courtesy of the original mod author and the outstanding modifications made by Steve to add cart images and active urls to the cart summary.

[Mrchristoh]

Nice work steve and limelites

Is there any way to get a list of contents like the shopping cart sidebox?

And if possible a image included of the products as in the cart?

please look at my site and expand the element in the header after adding to the cart.

I am using the cart summary:
<div>
<?php require(DIR_WS_MODULES . 'sideboxes/cart_summary.php'); ?>
</div>

My wish is to place this content in the div and it would be great to have a version of this that displays contents and images :)

Please check my other posts from today and maybe you can contribute to the AJAX modification that i made.

i have a question.....
Limelites
"can i ask you hoe did you do the redirect on empty cart?"
it looks great

is this the one for download above?

Thanks

[limelites]

Is there any way to get a list of contents like the shopping cart sidebox? And if possible a image included of the products as in the cart?
There are a couple of mods you can download which display the shopping cart content with product images:

• http://www.zen-cart.com/index.php?ma...roducts_id=787
  
• http://www.zen-cart.com/index.php?ma...roducts_id=239

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please look at my site and expand the element in the header after adding to the cart.
There's no link to your site?
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i have a question.....
Limelites
"can i ask you how did you do the redirect on empty cart?"
it looks great

is this the one for download above?

Take a look at this contribution and just tweak the code so that it redirects to your own defined page which has your own content:

• http://www.zen-cart.com/index.php?ma...oducts_id=1055