Assigning new CART number

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1997


It keeps the original formatting.
numero = 15440
interpreted = N
texte = Earlier in the day, I posted about how I have an INCLUDE that checks the referring domain and assigns a new cart number if it meets the right criteria. Everything works fine, except for one case, which I discovered when hopping around on the second site that I'm building.When I type in the URL of a page on my site (while in my domain) without including a cart argument it generates a new CART, but in scientific notation.So, if I type in: http://www.mydomain.com/Index5.html?SEC=Main I,d get to the page, but all of the links would have CART=2945827638734+e13 in the URL.I fixed this by writing the [CART] argument in my INCLUDE as [FORMAT 13s][CART][/FORMAT], but since WebCat generates cart numbers that are 15 digits long, I'm worried about preserving uniqueness.How can I keep the 15 digit length of the cart?MichaelMichael Winston *By Phone!: (503)/652/8815 x341 Internet Coordinator *By e-mail!: michaelw@dhorse.com Dark Horse Comics, Inc. *By web!: http://www.dhorse.com/ Associated Messages, from the most recent to the oldest:

    
  1. Re: Assigning new CART number (Grant Hulbert 1997)
  2. Re: Assigning new CART number (Kenneth Grome 1997)
  3. Re: Assigning new CART number (Michael Winston 1997)
  4. Re: Assigning new CART number (Kenneth Grome 1997)
  5. Assigning new CART number (Michael Winston 1997)
Earlier in the day, I posted about how I have an INCLUDE that checks the referring domain and assigns a new cart number if it meets the right criteria. Everything works fine, except for one case, which I discovered when hopping around on the second site that I'm building.When I type in the URL of a page on my site (while in my domain) without including a cart argument it generates a new CART, but in scientific notation.So, if I type in: http://www.mydomain.com/Index5.html?SEC=Main I,d get to the page, but all of the links would have CART=2945827638734+e13 in the URL.I fixed this by writing the [cart] argument in my INCLUDE as [FORMAT 13s][cart][/FORMAT], but since WebCat generates cart numbers that are 15 digits long, I'm worried about preserving uniqueness.How can I keep the 15 digit length of the cart?MichaelMichael Winston *By Phone!: (503)/652/8815 x341 Internet Coordinator *By e-mail!: michaelw@dhorse.com Dark Horse Comics, Inc. *By web!: http://www.dhorse.com/ Michael Winston

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