Re: Duplicate Carts
This WebDNA talk-list message is from 2000
It keeps the original formatting.
numero = 34438
interpreted = N
texte = >#1 is brilliant Ken! > >Maybe #2 is extra unnecessary work or money for the average person's >needs? ... why >not simply stick cart #s in the browser's [username] slot (assuming >users won't need to >login to any truely protected pages) ?Because of MANY reasons:1- Sometimes people do not navigate a site the way you want them to. If someone strips off the end of the URL for any reason -- to quickly get into a folder higher up the hierarchy for example, as many people have learned to do on non-shopping cart enabled sites, the cart value gets lost.2- Using an IP-address based system eliminates mistakes the webdna programmer may make by forgetting to put cart=[cart] in all his links and forms.3- Sometimes a site needs to generate a unique value for something OTHER THAN the shopping cart identifier. When that happens, it's impossible to use [cart] to generate the unique value. Of course it would be NICE if webcatalog had a [unique] tag that generated a unique value every time it's used, but it doesn't ... :( ================================ Kenneth Grome, WebDNA Consultant 808-737-6499 http://webdna.net ================================------------------------------------------------------------- This message is sent to you because you are subscribed to the mailing list
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>#1 is brilliant Ken! > >Maybe #2 is extra unnecessary work or money for the average person's >needs? ... why >not simply stick cart #s in the browser's [username] slot (assuming >users won't need to >login to any truely protected pages) ?Because of MANY reasons:1- Sometimes people do not navigate a site the way you want them to. If someone strips off the end of the URL for any reason -- to quickly get into a folder higher up the hierarchy for example, as many people have learned to do on non-shopping cart enabled sites, the cart value gets lost.2- Using an IP-address based system eliminates mistakes the webdna programmer may make by forgetting to put cart=[cart] in all his links and forms.3- Sometimes a site needs to generate a unique value for something OTHER THAN the shopping cart identifier. When that happens, it's impossible to use [cart] to generate the unique value. Of course it would be NICE if webcatalog had a [unique] tag that generated a unique value every time it's used, but it doesn't ... :( ================================ Kenneth Grome, WebDNA Consultant 808-737-6499 http://webdna.net ================================------------------------------------------------------------- This message is sent to you because you are subscribed to the mailing list . To unsubscribe, E-mail to: To switch to the DIGEST mode, E-mail to Web Archive of this list is at: http://search.smithmicro.com/
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