Cart not clearing

After the creation of a guest sign in, I ran some tests and everything seemed to be working just fine.

However, I happen to notice that the cart was not cleared or emptied after a complete and successful transaction. The cart still showed the original items to be purchased.

Of course, this appeared to be a problem if a shopper wanted to go back and make another purchase. Are you able to determine what the cart may be doing?

I have provided my cart.php page for your convenience.

add the following code to the checkout success page after the closing </html> tag:

<?php

// Initialize the session.

// If you are using session_name("something"), don't forget it now!

@session_start();



// Unset all of the session variables.

$_SESSION = array();



// If it's desired to kill the session, also delete the session cookie.

// Note: This will destroy the session, and not just the session data!

if (ini_get("session.use_cookies")) {

    $params = session_get_cookie_params();

    @setcookie(session_name(), '', time() - 42000,

        $params["path"], $params["domain"],

        $params["secure"], $params["httponly"]

    );

}



// Finally, destroy the session.

@session_destroy();

?>

Thank you for the code. I followed your directions and updated my checkout_success page.

As you may know (through our recent discussions), that I currently use Auth.net (remote checkout) and PayPal.

With Auth.net, the checkout_success page is not returned to the shopper. Instead, a receipt is generated by Auth.net just after the shopper clicks the submit button when submitting their credit card info.

With Paypal, the same things occurs.

Should I insert this code on the confirm page?

the confirm and pp_confirm pages should be directing to the checkout success page.


most likely, there is a php error occurring that is preventing the redirect from happening.

Add the following code at line one of both of those pages to turn error reporting on:

<?php

error_reporting(E_ALL);

ini_set('display_errors','on');

?>

The confirm and pp_confirm pages are directing to the respective success pages; however, the cart.php page is not destroying the session.

When I return to the cart page, the original order is still in the cart. Please review my previous replies for more information.

I have attached my success page for your review.

here is a small update to the session destroy code that should correct the issue.

it needs to go on each of the respective checkout success pages after the closing HTML tags.

to make sure that the change is being uploaded to the server, make a visual change to the page in addition to adding the code, this way, you can see at a glance whether the change is making it to the server.

<?php
// Initialize the session.
// If you are using session_name("something"), don't forget it now!
@session_start();

// Unset all of the session variables.
$_SESSION = array();

// If it's desired to kill the session, also delete the session cookie.
// Note: This will destroy the session, and not just the session data!
if (ini_get("session.use_cookies")) {
    $params = session_get_cookie_params();
    @setcookie(session_name(), '', time() - 42000,
        $params["path"], $params["domain"],
        $params["secure"], $params["httponly"]
    );
}

// Finally, destroy the session.
@session_destroy();
session_regenerate_id();
@session_start();
?>

Concerning Auth.net...since I am using a remote checkout with Auth.net, will the updated code make a difference?

I inserted your updated code to the following files: checkout_success and pp_checkout_success.

yes, once authorize.net returns you to to the success page, it will clear the cart contents.

You should know that when Auth.net processes a transaction remotely for our company, it returns a receipt page, not my success page.

Auth.net's receipt page is generated remotely by them and the only link that the receipt page provides is to my website's home page.

Any thoughts on this matter?

you can customize the link that points back to your home page by modifying the form on the confirm page that sends the trasnsaction to authorize.net.

if the following elements arent there already, add them:


<input type="hidden" name="x_receipt_link_method" value="link">
<input type="hidden" name="x_receipt_link_text" value="return to our online store">
<input type="hidden" name="x_receipt_link_url" value="http://www.mydomain.com/index.php?cart=clear">


male sure to add:
/index.php?cart=clear

to the link url, this can be used to tell it to clear the cart by using the following code on the index.php page:

<?php

if(isset($_GET['cart']) && $_GET['cart'] == "clear"){

// Initialize the session.

// If you are using session_name("something"), don't forget it now!

@session_start();



// Unset all of the session variables.

$_SESSION = array();



// If it's desired to kill the session, also delete the session cookie.

// Note: This will destroy the session, and not just the session data!

if (ini_get("session.use_cookies")) {

    $params = session_get_cookie_params();

    @setcookie(session_name(), '', time() - 42000,

        $params["path"], $params["domain"],

        $params["secure"], $params["httponly"]

    );

}



// Finally, destroy the session.

@session_destroy();

session_regenerate_id();

@session_start();

}

?>