Re: Catalog1.01 (Perl Module) and Minivend ... previous thread [mv] Design for Performance - is it possible?

[Hans-Joachim Leidinger <jojo@buchonline.net>]

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Liviu Chiriac wrote:
> I installed the Catalog1.01 perl module, which is a cgi script which lets you build an online
> catalog, like Yahoo for example. The data is stored in a Mysql database, and one can create
> different catalog views based on the same data.
> http://www.senga.org/Catalog/current/doc/catalog_toc.html
> 
> I created some simple catalogs (for testing), and now I plan to integrate them with minivend, such
> that after they decide on an item that they want to buy, they call minivend and add it to the
> shopping cart.
> 
> However, if they go back and browse the catalog, since it is a separate cgi program (i.e.. not
> minivend), it looks like I will lose all the session variables, and I lose the cart info because of
> that. (I think the documentation mentions this).
> 
> Is this right ? or with the use of cookies I can avoid it?
> 
> If  indeed I lose the cart info, is there a trick to make this work and to share these session/cart
> variables for different cgi script?
> 
> Thanks in adv.,
>     Liviu
> 
[DEL]

Look for [data session id] in minivend.html!
If you use this in all links, you can carry the session info. 
Make sure, you get the value of [data session id] at the first time, if
visitor go out from minivend.
Make sure, you use the same session ID, if the same visitor go back into
the minivend page.
Make sure, you insert the value of [data session id] in your link to
minivend.

E.g. go back to minivend...

http://www.yourdomain.com/your-CGI-BIN/yourshopname/anyminivendpage?yxzv1234

How to get the session ID?
Maybe with this to another cgi program via post methode. 

E.g.
<FORM .. http://<url to the cgi program>...>
<INPUT TYPE=hidden NAME="<variablename>" VALUE="[data session id]">
</FORM>

Regards,

	Joachim

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