Security Token

[DrByte]

Depends whether you change your non-ZC button to read something other than "add to cart".

The security token is tied to the active Zen Cart session. And, since your non-Zen Cart code isn't running Zen Cart and has no Zen Cart session active, you have no ability to insert a security token into your forms.
Zen Cart was designed to BE your product catalog, not be merely a payment collector.

What exactly is it that you're doing that has caused you to relegate ZC to merely a back end payment processing engine?
A link to your site would add some meaningful context to this discussion.

[Leowald]

My site is www.shalach-manos.com - for now, I went back to the previous version.
The problem is that I created this site years ago and the business runs on SEO.

So to change all the product pages (and therefore url and so on..) would not be a good idea for me at the moment.
Also, when someone purchases a basket - I need the contact info for the person recieving the basket (and some people purchase multiple baskets thus with different recipients per basket) so I custom programmed it to go to a page to take all the info. The way that I did it is neater than being in zencart. If you add a product to cart, you will see what I mean.

Thanks for all your help.

Leora

[RescoCCC]

The site is not loading for me.

[Leowald]

Sorry the server was down for a bit, back up now.

Thanks, Leora

[jaywilliams]

I know this is an old post, but just in case there's someone trying to do this, here's a quick workaround.

Open up includes/init_includes/init_sanitize.php and add a new conditional if statement to bypass the security restriction for the actions you need. For example, this will allow you to add items to the cart without a securityToken present:

// Line 30: Add if statement around zen_redirect() function call
if(!(
    $_GET['action'] == 'add_product' 
    && isset($_POST['cart_quantity']) 
    && !empty($_POST['products_id'])
)) {
    zen_redirect ( zen_href_link ( FILENAME_TIME_OUT, '', $request_type ) );
} 

Enjoy!

[DrByte]

Or just use the buy_now action like this:

/index.php?main_page=index&action=buy_now&products_id=11