Magento: Changing the url “continue shopping” points at

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If you wish to repoint the “continue shopping” button in the shopping cart, then the file
app/code/core/Mage/Checkout/Block/Cart.php (and don’t forget that the modified file should be copied to app/code/local/Mage/Checkout/Block/Cart.php ) is one place to do that from. (The code example below gives different results based on if the cart is empty or not)

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    public function getContinueShoppingUrl()
    {
	//Mage::getUrl(page name in CMS under admin)
       //if the cart is not empty, return the user to the shop
	if (Mage::helper('checkout/cart')->getCart()->getItemsCount() > 0)
		$url = Mage::getUrl('home');
	//if the cart is empty, return the user to the portal home.
	else
		$url = Mage::getUrl('portal');
        $this->setData('continue_shopping_url', $url);
 
        return $url;
    }

Also you should edit the file app/design/frontend/default/blank/template/checkout/cart/noItems.phtml (blank is my skin)

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<p><?php echo $this->__('Please <a href="%s">continue shopping</a>.', Mage::getUrl('portal')) ?></p>

[This was done to Magento version 1.3.2.4]

2 thoughts on “Magento: Changing the url “continue shopping” points at”

  1. Jontas – Thanks for this – Will it work in magento v1.4.01 or do you do custom work to fix it?

    Thanks for your time,
    John

  2. Hi. Not sure, I have moved on to other projects after the Magento one, so I would not know if this would work for other versions or not.

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