About Search Module & Products in Cart

-- HikaShop version -- : 2.3.3
-- Joomla version -- : 3.3.2
-- PHP version -- : 5.5.15
-- Browser(s) name and version -- : Chrome

Hi,

I have two important questions regarding below mentioned website where I have installed hikashop business component:
www.pponlinestore.com

1) How do I use the default search module with Hikashop? i.e. I want whenever the users type something into that search box, it should open onto the product page. I understood sometime back that it is to be dealt with the Hikashop Filter Module. But I am unable to know how to do it?

2) When the user adds some products to the cart and closes the browser without finishing, then the products are still their when they reopen the site in the same browser. I hope you get by this what I mean. Browser close and open actions doesn't affect the cart having products, and this should not be happening. It 'SHOULD' affect. The products should not be there in the cart when the user closes the browser and re-opens it.


Can you please guide me on this?

Thanks in Advance

Hi,

1) For the search module, you have to use the standard Joomla search module and enable the HikaShop product search plugin, edit the settings of this plugin in order to add the desired search columns (product_name, product_code, etc.)
Then the search will display the products with a link to the product page.

If you want a product listing shown when searching on a product you indeed have to use the filters.

2) This don't seem to be possible.
Joomla create a Cookie in the browser of the users when creating a session, it use this cookie to get the session infos on every pages.
So when you close the browser and open it again, as you still have the cookie, Joomla is able to get back the user session.
In HikaShop as we use the Joomla session, we are not able to know if the loaded session is the one before or after the browser has been closed.

What will be required is a system to delete the cookie created when closing the browser, but I don't think it's possible.

Hi Xavier,

Thank you so much for this nice explaination. Point 1 understood fully and thanks for it.

Regarding point 2, please note that the buyer is a 'Guest' user not the registered user. So my client has already raised the issue that even after closing and reopening the browser the previously added products are still there, which obviously shouldn't be happening.

Isn't there any other solution to this? I already turned off the Joomla Cache. I am really tired of thinking about this.

I am 1000% percent with you Xavier. But when it comes to deal with client's requirements, then I am helpless . .

The client purposefully wants it. Even I am opposed to his ideas, but he deliberately wants to clear the cart upon the browser close.

His perception is, when he added few products then after sometime he changed his mind to purchase and close the browser and then after sometime he comes back and add another set of products diferent than previously added.

I hope you get what I mean. Please let me know how if this possible? And if yes, how?

magicwords wrote: I am 1000% percent with you Xavier. But when it comes to deal with client's requirements, then I am helpless . .

The client purposefully wants it. Even I am opposed to his ideas, but he deliberately wants to clear the cart upon the browser close.

His perception is, when he added few products then after sometime he changed his mind to purchase and close the browser and then after sometime he comes back and add another set of products diferent than previously added.

I hope you get what I mean. Please let me know how if this possible? And if yes, how?