Codeigniter cart is just updated after refreshing page

Question

I'm using CI 2.1.3 for my shopping cart project. This is how add-to-cart works : call add_to_cart function to insert item into cart, then redirect to view_cart page. But the cart wasn't updated immediately. It is only updated when the page reloaded. Why?

public function add_to_cart($product_id){
        if (isset($product_id)){
            $product = $this->_product_model->get_record_by_id((int)$product_id);
            if (!is_null($product)){
                if (count($this->cart->contents())>0){
                    foreach ($this->cart->contents() as $item){
                        if ($item['id']==$product->id){
                            $data = array('rowid'=>$item['rowid'],'qty'=>++$item['qty']);
                            $this->cart->update($data);
                        }else{
                            $data = array('id'=>$product->id,'qty'=>1,'price'=>$product->price,'name'=>$product->id,'options'=>array('image'=>$product->thumb,'product_name'=>$product->title));
                            $this->cart->insert($data);
                        }
                    }
                }else{
                    $data = array('id'=>$product->id,'qty'=>1,'price'=>$product->price,'name'=>$product->id,'options'=>array('image'=>$product->thumb,'product_name'=>$product->title));
                    $this->cart->insert($data);
                }
                //$this->layout->load('cart/view_cart', $this->data);
                redirect(base_url('view_cart.html'),'location');
            }
        }else{
            $this->layout->load('/product/product_not_found', $this->data);
        }
    }

So you add an item to to cart, are directed to the cart page but the item isn't in your cart. You refresh the page, and it is in the cart? — Jeemusu

mirza mirza · Accepted Answer · 2013-07-03T07:00:45

0

votes

try this:

redirect(base_url('view_cart.html'),'refresh');

Codeigniter cart is just updated after refreshing page

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