Adding a new user and being redirected back to the shopping cart

I received a comment from a public user shopping our site stating that he was not redirected to the shopping cart after opening a new user account. He explained that he was extremely frustrated that, upon opening a new user account, he was forced to repeat the process of going back to our online store and begin to add the items he previously added to the cart earlier.

In an effort to make the shopping process more user-friendly, is it possible to use webassist to redirect a user back to the checkout page, after creating a new user account? Ideally, I would like to ensure that an online shopper of our site does not have to repeat the process of adding their items to the shopping cart should they need to create a new user account (assuming they have not done so, yet).

I have experienced similar websites that do require login information to finalize the shopping experience and, should the user not have an account, they are prompted to create one and, when they create their user account, they are redirected back to the checkout page.

Any assistance you may have to offer would be invaluable!!!

I think this is a duplicate post, or very close to it. Here is a link to the previous thread that I just responded to about this topic.

showthread.php?t=14558

Hello, Eric.

Thank you for your assistance again.

This post is pertaining to an issue that I need some assistance in setting up. In reviewing my original post on this matter (above), how can I have a user, not having created a user account, redirected back to the checkout page once they have created a new user account. Of course, this is assuming that the user is in the processing making a purchase on our website and is then being redirected to login.

Currently, when the user reaches the checkout page, they are redirected to the login page to sign in. If the individual had not created a user account earlier, they will be prompted to create one; however, once they have created their new user account, the system currently does not redirect them back to where they left off during their shopping experience. They have to go back and repeat adding the item to the cart and checking out.

I am looking to better our online shopping experience. Any assistance you may have to offer would be greatly appreciated.

One way that you could do this is to set a session variable on the checkout page before you redirect the user to the register/login page. On the registration page you can check for this session variable and it's value. If it is set to the value from the checkout page you can redirect back to checkout page, and if not send them to the default go to page.

You can set a session based weather or not the user is logged in like this:

if(!session_id()) session_start();

if(  (!(isset($_SESSION['userID']))) || ($_SESSION['userID'] == "")){

$_SESSION['checkout'] = 1;

}

On the registration page where the go to is specified you can set it like this:

$goto = (isset($_SESSION['checkout']) && ($_SESSION['checkout'] == 1))?checkout.php:default_return_page.php;

Eric,

Thank you for your reply.

I added the session variable to the checkout page; however, I am uncertain were to insert the $goto variable in the registration page. The only variable I found was found in the UE code...see example below...

<?php
if (!isset($_SESSION))session_start();
if ((isset($_POST["Register"]))) {
//WA Universal Email object="mail"
set_time_limit(0);
$EmailRef = "WAUE_users_RegistrationVisitors_1";
$BurstSize = 200;
$BurstTime = 1;
$WaitTime = 1;
$GoToPage = "users_ThankYou.php";
$RecipArray = array();
$StartBurst = time();
$LoopCount = 0;
$TotalEmails = 0;
$RecipIndex = 0;
// build up recipients array

Any recommendations where to insert the "goto" variable?

If you are setting the session variable to 1 on the checkout page then you can use this code for the go to page:

if(!session_id()) session_start();

$GoToPage = (isset($_SESSION['checkout']) && $_SESSION['checkout'] ==1)?"checkout.php":"users_ThankYou.php";

Eric,

The code worked well. Again, thank you for your help.

Nice, glad to hear that the code worked out for you. Let us know if you have any other questions.