How to delete products from shopping cart when user session ends

[tstanley]

You are partly correct. The "script" has no flaws when applied against the version for which it was written.

Between the time that code was posted 4 years ago and now, there have been numerous new releases and feature changes and security precautions added. One of those has to do with ensuring there's been no tampering with the shopping cart. And, since the code literally IS tampering with the shopping cart contents, it's triggering one of those safeties.

The fix is simple. Add another line above the calculate() line, as shown:

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

I am running v 1.3.9h and a customer called with the login error "Whoops! Sorry, but you are not allowed to perform the action requested" I am getting this error as well with my test account. This appears to be a recent problem. I searched for the above mentioned code and was unable to locate it in header_php.php file. Thanks in advance for the help.

[DrByte]

You're posting in a thread discussing how to change normal operation of the store software.
Why are you posting in this discussion? Did you attempt to make a similar change? Or are you just posting here because you're encountering an error message that happened to come up in search results?
What exactly do you mean by "this appears to be a recent problem"? What have you changed in your site "recently"?
Further, please answer all the questions in the Posting Tips section which appears when you click Reply.