Want a pop up "Check your cart"

-- url of the page with the problem -- : www.ckdev.info/2015
-- HikaShop version -- : 2.4.0
-- Joomla version -- : 3.4.1
-- PHP version -- : 5.3.29
-- Error-message(debug-mod must be tuned on) -- : None

One area I feel HS lets itself down in is the cart. Where's the nice little graphic and "Check your cart" with the number of products after it? I'm so used to seeing this, it's a pity that the cart options in HS don't include this. But maybe I'm the only one who likes this!

What I am trying to do is get away from the cart module displaying in the (currently) sidebar. As it gets more and more items added it gets really long. So I assigned it to a position called "cart". Then I made an article and used {loadposition cart}. Made a hidden menu item to that article. Lastly, I made a visible module called "Check your cart" and added text "Check cart". The link was to the hidden menu item, and I used JCE Mediabox to make a 300px x 300px popup. It popped up OK but was just full of PHP. Not what I expected.

Ideas on what I am doing wrong? Or a better way? Thanks.

Hi,

There already are solutions for that for HikaShop, like for example this one:
www.smartaddons.com/joomla/extensions/co...kashop-joomla-module

Also, if you turn on the "mini cart" option of the HikaShop cart module, it will display as a text with the total/number of items and when you click on it, it will direct to the checkout which you can configure with a first step displaying the cart. So you don't even need to do anything if that's ok enough for you.

Took your advice. Happy that it was cheap because the product is not up to par and support is lackluster. I did get the first issue solved after 2.5 days, but they failed to address the second issue raised. Further issues have yet to be answered and the module seems to have a clash with Akeeba Admin Tools in certain configs. I get locked out after interacting with it during certain setups.

In other setups the products won't delete from the cart, it just hangs.

Is there another option? I really want to bin this one.

There is this one as well:
www.mtense.com/hikashop-mini-cart-with-popup-demo
Some templates for HikaShop also have such system, but I don't remember exactly which one.

Thanks Nicolas. Installed the other one you suggested (my templates are done with Artisteer and have no such feature). I have it working a bit. Pop up isn't working - suspect a clash with his mootools and something else. Also I can't get the background color of the pop up to be anything but transparent. Thanks.

Hi,

The "add to cart" popup is using the Joomla Squeeze box system ; which is based on mootools.
If your template does not handle that popup system, it is highly possible that you won't see it correctly and have some display issues.

Regards,

Another option is to use JPanel to display a slide out cart. See the site in the showcase discussed at www.hikashop.com/forum/8-showcase/871714...re-in-existence.html . You don't get the mini listing of number of products and the total, but I like that the full cart is readily accessible and tucks out of the way when not needed.

Yeah I dropped the 2nd option and used jPanel. Nifty! Love it. Just have to figure out how to active with a button - my coding is about zero!! LOL!

trogladyte wrote: Yeah I dropped the 2nd option and used jPanel. Nifty! Love it. Just have to figure out how to active with a button - my coding is about zero!! LOL!

Glad you like it. I implemented it on my site as well.

I've really tried not to do as very little changing of the code as possible. The more changes you make to the code, the harder it is to update the site when a new version comes out. Fortunately, HikaShop provides "overrides" for some of the pages, emails, language terms, and CSS so a new version will not break changes made there.

Hi,

Maybe you would want to contact the jPanel support for that ?
There must be some pretty simple javascript to open the slider from an external button when the slider is loaded but I wouldn't be able to say what it is.

Actually it was kind of simple in the end, though having it written out as a help would have been nice. There was an example on the page so I did an Inspect Element on it. The code is (for anyone else who stumbles on this thread):

In the onclick, look in your module list and fid the ID # of the module (mine happened to be 213) and replace ID#_of_jpanel_module with that #.

Unfortunately, if you use this method as opposed to the mouseover (which appears and hides automatically) then your cart stays open. So, I made a CustomHTML module, used EXACTLY the same code as I used to open it, but just changed the anchor text to "Close cart". When the cart is open you click that and it hides. The module appear in the slide-out window in the order they are in the module manager, so you can adjust whether your Close Cart is at the top or bottom.

This option works a treat. DO NOT use that Mini Cart option. Their support is almost non-existent and it does not work properly. I asked for support on 6/6/15 and still waiting. Asked for a refund 2-3 days ago and still waiting.