[ic] Timed build and sessions

[Mike Heins]

Quoting Jamie Neil (jamie at versado.net):
> Hi all,
> 
> I've got a problem that I'm trying to use timed-build to solve, but I'm 
> getting stuck on session id's.
> 
> I have two different components that each show a small selection of 
> products randomly selected from a subset of the database: "Featured 
> Products" uses the merchandising table and "Special Offers" uses a 
> sale_price field in the pricing table (see http://www.clickgolf.co.uk/).
> 
> These work fine, however I want to modify them so that on any given day 
> they display the same products on the same page instead of presenting a 
> new set each time the page is refreshed. The idea is to make the pages 
> more "stable".
> 
> I thought timed-build sounded perfect for this, so I tried this:

[tmp tmp_session_id][scratch mv_no_session_id][/tmp]
[set mv_no_session_id]1[/set]

> [timed-build period="1440" file=|timed/promo-[control banner Featured 
> Products]-[control matches 3]-[control promo_type featured]-[value deptid]|]
> ...component code...
> [/timed-build]

[seti mv_no_session_id][scratch tmp_session_id][/set]

That should prevent the id from escaping, I think, allowing you to
use force=1; then it should reset to the previous setting.

If you require cookies, you could instead remove the code from the login
action that sets mv_no_session_id to 0.

-- 
Mike Heins
Perusion -- Expert Interchange Consulting    http://www.perusion.com/
phone +1.513.523.7621      <mike at perusion.com>

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