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texte = Excellent suggestion. We have now begun to use cookies to setcarts. That way if someone leaves the site, there cart will retain products incase they come back to purchase. I would add to the [cookiecart tag], the ability to specifiy a name, so if you are running more than one store you can have a different cookiecart for each one. Maybe something like [cartcookie name=mystorecart].JoshAt 12:23 AM 2/3/99, you wrote: >This is one of two or three more emails I have to write, so if you don't like my >opinions, you may want to stop reading now... > >For those of you who are left, The first thing that probably needs to change to >stay current in the field of E-commerce is the use of cookies to pass cart >values. As much as I haven't been a fan of cookies, there is a use for them, and >most people whose browsers are capable have learned that they need to accept >cookies from shoppable sites if they want to shop. In ways, it has become >a defacto standard. > >Although WebCatalog has a cookie mechanism built in, I think It could be vastly >improved to help facilitate using carts. > >As far as I can tell, There are three ways to pass a cart value >2 are in a URL >....?cart=[cart] >....&cart=[cart] >1 in hidden inputs > > >Therefor we need three newish cart tags: >[&cart] [?cart] [input-cart] >these would all look for the presence of a cart in a cookie named cart >and hide themselves if their presence was not needed, and they would fill in >just like the above examples if a browser failed to send back a cart value, but >WebCatalog would be programmed (possibly with a user selectable setting to turn >this off?) to attempt to set a cookie with the current cart on any page request >that didn't include the cart cookie. Also, if WebCatalog detects a cookie named >cart, it uses that value automatically for all cart tags that may be needed on >that page. Now I can hear some of you saying just set the cookie on the first >page, and forget about passing carts but that won't work, and you have to have >a cart link for every link for the older browsers. > >This will facilitate the elimination of dropped carts for browsers that >support cookies (like you've never created a link and forgot the cart tag!), as >well as helping recall the contents of a cart if a shopper returns in a few >hours (or from the non-shopping part of a site). (or if they reload the home >page (without the cart in the URL) etc, etc... > > Brian B. Burton > BOFH - Department of Redundancy Department >--------------------------------------------------------------- > MMT Solutions - Specializing in Online Shopping Solutions > 973-808-8644 http://www.safecommerce.com > >Are you a Web Programmer? >I am today. > > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Joshua Blank Pop Art LLC http://pop-art.com josh@pop-art.com eCommerce / Web Design / Multimedia7000 SW Hampton St. tel: (503) 968.5957 Suite 124 fax: (503) 620.8487 Portland, OR 97223-8361
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Excellent suggestion. We have now begun to use cookies to setcarts. That way if someone leaves the site, there cart will retain products incase they come back to purchase. I would add to the [cookiecart tag], the ability to specifiy a name, so if you are running more than one store you can have a different cookiecart for each one. Maybe something like [cartcookie name=mystorecart].JoshAt 12:23 AM 2/3/99, you wrote: >This is one of two or three more emails I have to write, so if you don't like my >opinions, you may want to stop reading now... > >For those of you who are left, The first thing that probably needs to change to >stay current in the field of E-commerce is the use of cookies to pass cart >values. As much as I haven't been a fan of cookies, there is a use for them, and >most people whose browsers are capable have learned that they need to accept >cookies from shoppable sites if they want to shop. In ways, it has become >a defacto standard. > >Although WebCatalog has a cookie mechanism built in, I think It could be vastly >improved to help facilitate using carts. > >As far as I can tell, There are three ways to pass a cart value >2 are in a URL >....?cart=[cart] >....&cart=[cart] >1 in hidden inputs >[cart]> > >Therefor we need three newish cart tags: >[&cart] [?cart] [input-cart] >these would all look for the presence of a cart in a cookie named cart >and hide themselves if their presence was not needed, and they would fill in >just like the above examples if a browser failed to send back a cart value, but >WebCatalog would be programmed (possibly with a user selectable setting to turn >this off?) to attempt to set a cookie with the current cart on any page request >that didn't include the cart cookie. Also, if WebCatalog detects a cookie named >cart, it uses that value automatically for all cart tags that may be needed on >that page. Now I can hear some of you saying just set the cookie on the first >page, and forget about passing carts but that won't work, and you have to have >a cart link for every link for the older browsers. > >This will facilitate the elimination of dropped carts for browsers that >support cookies (like you've never created a link and forgot the cart tag!), as >well as helping recall the contents of a cart if a shopper returns in a few >hours (or from the non-shopping part of a site). (or if they reload the home >page (without the cart in the URL) etc, etc... > > Brian B. Burton > BOFH - Department of Redundancy Department >--------------------------------------------------------------- > MMT Solutions - Specializing in Online Shopping Solutions > 973-808-8644 http://www.safecommerce.com > >Are you a Web Programmer? >I am today. > > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Joshua Blank Pop Art LLC http://pop-art.com josh@pop-art.com eCommerce / Web Design / Multimedia7000 SW Hampton St. tel: (503) 968.5957 Suite 124 fax: (503) 620.8487 Portland, OR 97223-8361
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