How to redirect the user to my page at the parent window

[guyafe]

Hi,

I have a site in which I have a private shopping cart. After filling the cart, the user is redirect to Paypal for payment.

In order to redirect the user to my page after payment I am using the following code:

<input type="hidden" name="return" value="purchase-complete" >.

 The problem is that the payment window is opened in a child window, and the redirection is to that child.

I would like that after payment, the child window will close and the parent window will be redirected to the desired address.

Can anyone tell if this is possible?

Thanks

[snowshoe]

Assuming you have "auto return" enabled you would want to make the following tweak to your code.

Change target="paypal" to target="_self".   This will keep the shopping cart page on the same page.   See example below:

<form target="_self" action="https://www.paypal.com/cgi-bin/webscr method="post">

The HTML command target="_self" puts the new document in the same window as the current document.   Some web browsers like FireFox, Chrome and older versions of IE will open a new or second window to display a new document.   In order to prevent having multiple windows open while doing a task, it's recommended to use target="_self".

Then you "return" line would have the full path back to your site:

<!-- Replace value with the web page you want the customer to return to after a successful transaction -->
<input type="hidden" name="return" value="http://www.yourwebsite.com/compete.html">