Re: passing cart value
This WebDNA talk-list message is from 2003
It keeps the original formatting.
numero = 52500
interpreted = N
texte = On 8/26/03 7:16 PM, "Brian Wachter"
wrote: > Can anyone recommend a better way to track a customer's cart value > throughout the site other than simply passing it along in the URL? I'm > wondering if there is a more elegant way of doing it where it's not > displayed in the URL. I suppose one way to do it is with a cookie, but I > could see this being problematic as well. > > Thanks, > Brian Those are pretty much your choices. Netcloak from maxum used to store form values per user for their session (still does). That is any form that was submitted would be retained as form variables for the users session. No cookies or url funniness. You could reproduce the same thing BUT there was a catch. It was based on a timed event and IP number. Since IP number was not guaranteed unique it could cause problems with proxy users such as aol or internal corporate networks. So basically, you have the url trick, the cookie way, or IP based... Each successively less reliable. I suppose you could compromise and have the cart stored in a db and you could assign each new user some small and unique value (still being passed in the url). But that seems like a lot of trouble to go to just to have a smaller & less offensive url box. If you were really ambitious, you could code your site to attempt the cookie way and then use that if successful, otherwise defaulting to the url passing. HTH Alex Alex J McCombie New World Media Chief Information Officer Box 124 888/892.6379 MartVille, NY 13111 Alex@NewWorldMedia.com http://OurClients.com Interface Designer WebDNA Programmer Database Designer ------------------------------------------------------------- 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://webdna.smithmicro.com/
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On 8/26/03 7:16 PM, "Brian Wachter" wrote: > Can anyone recommend a better way to track a customer's cart value > throughout the site other than simply passing it along in the URL? I'm > wondering if there is a more elegant way of doing it where it's not > displayed in the URL. I suppose one way to do it is with a cookie, but I > could see this being problematic as well. > > Thanks, > Brian Those are pretty much your choices. Netcloak from maxum used to store form values per user for their session (still does). That is any form that was submitted would be retained as form variables for the users session. No cookies or url funniness. You could reproduce the same thing BUT there was a catch. It was based on a timed event and IP number. Since IP number was not guaranteed unique it could cause problems with proxy users such as aol or internal corporate networks. So basically, you have the url trick, the cookie way, or IP based... Each successively less reliable. I suppose you could compromise and have the cart stored in a db and you could assign each new user some small and unique value (still being passed in the url). But that seems like a lot of trouble to go to just to have a smaller & less offensive url box. If you were really ambitious, you could code your site to attempt the cookie way and then use that if successful, otherwise defaulting to the url passing. HTH Alex Alex J McCombie New World Media Chief Information Officer Box 124 888/892.6379 MartVille, NY 13111 Alex@NewWorldMedia.com http://OurClients.com Interface Designer WebDNA Programmer Database Designer ------------------------------------------------------------- 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://webdna.smithmicro.com/
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