The Cart is Empty

The first time anyone tries to order something on my site they end up with a message telling them "The cart is empty".

The process is:

Add to Cart - Checkout
Paypal button selected
Paypal login and review

Once the Paypal site's continue button is pressed the customer is re-directed back to the Powerstore site and cart.php appears with the message "The cart is empty".

This only happens the first time someone tries to purchase something. The second time it works ok - they are redirected from Paypal to the pp_confirm.php where they can confirm the order and checkout.

I've tried inserting <?php if(!session_id()) session_start(); ?> at line 1 of the cart page.

I've tried adding session_commit(); after // WA eCart Redirect on the cart and pp_confirm pages.

Do you have any idea what else I can try to get this resolved?

www.voyagermoon.com

The cart contents are stored in a session variable. Session variables use a cookie to track the session contents. The cookie is set based on the domain.

When a user comes to your site at:
cart

a cookie is set to track session contents, when they get redirected from paypal back to your site, they are directed to a different domain:
cart


in the WA_Globals.php, make sure to set the $WAGLOBAL_Root_URL variable to www.voyagermoon.com/

Brilliant ! All sorted :-)

Thanks for figuring out where I went wrong.

Spoke too soon......

I changed the WA_Globals file to read: $WAGLOBAL_Root_URL = "http://www.voyagermoon.com/";

The result is that someone purchasing a product on the .com domain has no problems. Paypal redirects them back to the confirm page as it should.

But - when someone purchases a product on the .com.au domain they end up back at .com with the message "the cart is empty".

You will need to use a script to check the domain they are entering your site from and force them over to the correct one. There are many different ways of doing this depending on your server type. it can be done using htaccess or a number of other ways.

Thanks Jason, the domain hosting company's control panel had a simple way of setting the redirect up. The cart works fine now.

Excellent, glad to hear it.

Hi,

Every time a new customer click on "checkout", the next page says "The cart is empty"m i.e. does not direct the client to the "payment" page.

However, if the customer remain on the same browser, he does not experience this issue anymore (i.e. if he adds to cart and clicks "checkout" again - he is directed to the payment page the 2nd time). However, if he closes this old browser and opens a new one, this error happens again. The customer is using IE 6.0.

Please advise. Thank you.

Please post a link to your site so I can try to recreate the problem to see what is going wrong.

Hi Jason,

Please attempt to make a purchase@ Products_Detail.php?ProductID=7

Browser IE 6.0 and Ffox 2.0.0 show the same error/issue. Have not tried other browser.

Thanks.