Re: customers getting same cart
This WebDNA talk-list message is from 2004
It keeps the original formatting.
numero = 60353
interpreted = N
texte = I've found the best way to prevent this is to keep track of orders in a database and then constantly check the customers current cart against all old carts. If a match is found, give the current customer a new cart. There is some extra code to prevent that from occurring on the check out pages, etc... but it works well. On Dec 7, 2004, at 1:14 PM, John Peacock wrote: >> [if ("[referrer]"~"http://www.yoursite.com")|(]"[referrer]"~"http:// >> yoursite.com")][else][formvariables][showif cart=[name]][redirect >> http://www.yoursite.com/welcomenewguy.tpl][/fromvariables][/else][/ >> if] > > [referrer] isn't reliable. Search engines don't use it, some clients > can suppress it (like Opera and Firefox, I think). You are much > better off checking against a table of used carts, or better yet, > store the cart in a session cookie. -- Jesse Williams-Proudman Blue Box Development :: Custom Web Solutions +1 (206) 347-0528 :: jesse@blueboxdev.com ------------------------------------------------------------- This message is sent to you because you are subscribed to the mailing list
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I've found the best way to prevent this is to keep track of orders in a database and then constantly check the customers current cart against all old carts. If a match is found, give the current customer a new cart. There is some extra code to prevent that from occurring on the check out pages, etc... but it works well. On Dec 7, 2004, at 1:14 PM, John Peacock wrote: >> [if ("[referrer]"~"http://www.yoursite.com")|(]"[referrer]"~"http:// >> yoursite.com")][else][formvariables][showif cart=[name]][redirect >> http://www.yoursite.com/welcomenewguy.tpl][/fromvariables][/else][/ >> if] > > [referrer] isn't reliable. Search engines don't use it, some clients > can suppress it (like Opera and Firefox, I think). You are much > better off checking against a table of used carts, or better yet, > store the cart in a session cookie. -- Jesse Williams-Proudman Blue Box Development :: Custom Web Solutions +1 (206) 347-0528 :: jesse@blueboxdev.com ------------------------------------------------------------- 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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