[ic] Sharing sessions - Discounts

[Sandy Thomson]

Sandy Thomson wrote:

> Jon Jensen wrote:
>
>> On Thu, 19 Aug 2004, Ed LaFrance (New Media E.M.S.) wrote:
>>
>>  
>>
>>>> I have an interchange mall with many shops, and would like a 
>>>> discount that was applied in one shop to be transferrable to others 
>>>> transparently (i.e a customer enters a code on one shop and can use 
>>>> the discount at the other shops with no extra data entry).
>>>>
>>>> So far i have:
>>>> 1. Symlinked the sessions directories (so there is only one 
>>>> sessions dir, cart is maintained betweed shops).
>>>>
>>>> 2. Changed the CookieDomain in each of the shops to have all the 
>>>> urls in the discount scheme.
>>>>
>>>> Any suggestions? I am out of ideas.
>>>>     
>>>
>>> If the session is still not portable between shops, you may need to 
>>> customize Session.pm to allow this.
>>>   
>>
>>
>> One way you can do this in the latest Interchange from CVS (or any 
>> nightly
>> build from April 10 or later) is to add two CGI parameters to any links
>> leaving the current catalog:
>>
>> mv_force_session=1
>> mv_session_id=whatever
>>
>> The catalog the user goes to will accept the session ID in the CGI 
>> parameter in preference to a cookie when mv_force_session is on.
>>
>> This was added just for a merchant with a similar situation to yours.
>>
>> If you're using an older Interchange and don't want to upgrade to a 
>> development version, you could apply the simple patch manually:
>>
>> http://www.icdevgroup.org/cgi-bin/cvsweb/interchange/lib/Vend/Dispatch.pm#rev1.37 
>>
>>
>> Jon
>>  
>>
>
> Thanks a lot for your help, ill give the patch a go!
>
> Sandy.

Just to say, it works great. Thanks very much.