I've found a cool paypal mini cart for those of us who haven't got a paypal premium account, instead of being directed away to another page the checkout pops up on the same screen until you need to pay.
My problem is I can't get it to work, the instructions are not absolutely clear and an email to their support resulted in a link to the instructions page.
It looks like you need to upload files to do this. I have done this already, so I have a code for you that should work.
That's it. That should make it work.
Could you try putting the HTML widget before everything else? (at the very top of your page) I looked in your source code and it seems to be after the add to cart thing that is opening a new page which may be causing that to happen.
Please let us know if this works.
I've placed the widget above the add to button and its still redirecting to the other page, any further thoughts would be appreciated.
Pardon me for jumping in here. It looks like you're calling the function twice and the second time is trying to run a tar.gz instead of a .js file. This may be the problem.
Delete the widget with this code and the one above it should work (hopefully).
Thanks Diane that was one of my earlier attempts which I'd forgotten to delete, unfortunately its still directing away. By using a widget is the code in the right place as per their tutorial?
Thanks Diane and Nathan for your help, I would really like to get this to work.
If you have added it in the content area of the page, it should work correctly as that is before the close <!--</body>--> tag.
In looking through the PayPal page, it says that hosted and encrypted buttons will redirect to the PayPal page. See the FAQ tab on the mini-cart page. I think this may be the cause of the problem.
Yes I looked at that and it could be that the "remove code protection" check box is ticked causing the problem, I haven't been able to check as I don't know where it is!
After several emails, not all polite I've finally got someone from paypal on the case, I guess you get used to the good service on this forum that you notice other company's failings easier.
If I can find a solution I'll post back for your information, thanks for the help.
Regarding hosting the file yourself, just copy the whole code from here, paste it into Notepad or another text editor, (not a Word Processor) and save it as "minicart.js" Make sure for the file type it is set as "All Files" and not ".txt" when you save it.
Thanks for the info, I've followed your instructions but for some reason the file isn't uploading to the file manager, the progress bar will show and work as normal but the files not there, I assume .js files can be uploaded? or maybe a problem with the file manager itself?
I will carry on with the file you are hosting until I can fix this.
I've just spotted on another thread that .js files are not allowed to be uploaded to file manager as they can apparently be used maliciously. How are you hosting the file?
I'm able to host it because I have Yola Silver.
Could I allow you to continue hosting the file for me, my only reason I wanted to host it myself was in case you forgot what it was being used for and accidentally deleted it, I've done it myself in file manager.
Is it not the case that if a .js file can be used maliciously its irrelevant what type of account you hold. Please clarify.
Regarding the .js files only on Silver, the reason behind this is because of security issues. They can't allow free accounts to upload JS files for a secuirty reason. (I heard that from an employee about a year ago before I had Silver) CSS files can be uploaded, though.
OK Nathan thank you, regarding the .js files that is a very strange reason they gave you, are they saying silver account holders are more trustworthy then free, if so I'm sure a lot of people would beg to differ.
It's a good question you pose. These types of files could be used maliciously, and for a long time no one was able to upload them. We then made a decision that we would allow it as part of the Silver package because there had been many requests for this very type of file upload. It was a business decision to make it part of the package in terms of an added functionality to Silver, it did not have to do with who we trust in terms of account holders. Hope that clarifies.