Online shopping carts - FAQ - Can I make a miniature "View Cart" display on my own web pages?

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Can I make a miniature "View Cart" display on my own web pages?

You can use this to create a mini view of the shopping cart contents in your website. Or to create a mini version of the shopping cart add buttons.

This requires you to add a little extra information to the regular cart buttons.

That information is written in red below:

Or in a form add these lines
<input type=hidden name="ShowMiniView" value="3">
<input type=hidden name="ShowHeader" value="1">

ShowHeader	Description
1	Display with a content-type text/html. Useful for IFRAMES and Pop-Ups. Uses the browser default colors.
2	Display with a content-type text/html. Useful for IFRAMES and Pop-Ups. Uses the colors you've chosen in your Color/Layout Settings
3	Activate the style.css file which can be uploaded using the Upload Custom Images tool

ShowMiniView	Description
0	Default value, shows the normal view cart page
1	No close buttons. Suitable for use in an IFRAME.
2	Close buttons at the top and bottom of the page. Suitable for a small pop-up window.
3	Does not display cart contents. Simply displays a message that "Your item has been added" with a close button.
4	Executes an immediate javascript CLOSE command. Useful if you wish to have your add buttons go to a pop-up window that will close the second the shopping cart has added the product.
5	Displays the cart contents, then a view cart and checkout button at the bottom
6	The output goes to an IFrame shown on this page. Watch the summary below as you click on the "Test" button. You can use this method to create a small cart summary anywhere on your own website.

Note: This for this feature to work your Continue Method must be set to "Default". If set to automatic forward that will override the ShowMiniView settings.