Magento – How to add a checkout button to header but not in the top links

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how do i add in a checkout button into the header, but not within the top links?

I havent tried anything yet because i dont know where to start, hence why i am asking for your help.

All i need is a simple link that goes to checkout or my cart.

Thankyou

Best Answer

You can modify your theme's header.phtml file to include a link to the checkout by doing the following:

Open app/design/frontend/[theme-parent]/[theme-child]/template/page/html/header.phtml
Insert <a href="<?php echo Mage::helper('checkout/url')->getCheckoutUrl(); ?>">Checkout</a> where you want the link to appear.

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jQuery.ajax({
                  url: url,
                  dataType: 'json',
                  type : 'post',
                  data: data,
                  success: function(data){
                      jQuery('#ajax_loader').hide();
                          //alert(data.status + ": " + data.message);
                          if(jQuery('.block-cart')){
                              jQuery('.block-cart').replaceWith(data.sidebar);
                          }
                          if(jQuery('.header .links')){
                              jQuery('.header .links').replaceWith(data.toplink);
                          }
                  }

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jQuery.ajax({
                      url: url,
                      //dataType: 'json',
                      type : 'post',
                      data: data,
                      success: function(data){     
                          console.log(data);
                            jQuery('#ajax_loader').hide();
                            //console.log(url);
                            if(jQuery('#gd_total')){ 
                                 jQuery("#gd_total").html( jQuery(data).find('#gd_total'));
                            }
                            if(jQuery('#itemC')){
                                 jQuery("#itemC").html( jQuery(data).find('#itemC'));
                            }
                      }
                });

Shopping Cart – How to Add an Extra ‘Checkout’ Button in Shopping Basket at the Top of the Page

The "Proceed to Checkout" button is added at the top of the template /app/design/frontend/base/default/template/checkout/cart.phtml by looping through all the 'top_methods'.

<ul class="checkout-types">
    <?php foreach ($this->getMethods('top_methods') as $method): ?>
        <?php if ($methodHtml = $this->getMethodHtml($method)): ?>
        <li><?php echo $methodHtml; ?></li>
        <?php endif; ?>
    <?php endforeach; ?>
</ul>

This is different from the bottom of the template where it loops through the 'methods' I would suggest that either the 'top_methods' loop has been removed from your template or the methods are not being added.

The methods are added via layout.xml file, normally in /app/design/frontend/base/default/layout/checkout.xml with the following code:

<block type="core/text_list" name="checkout.cart.top_methods" as="top_methods" translate="label">
    <label>Payment Methods Before Checkout Button</label>
    <block type="checkout/onepage_link" name="checkout.cart.methods.onepage" template="checkout/onepage/link.phtml"/>
</block>

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