[ic] Saving shopping carts on behalf of a customer.

[Jon]

> On Mon, 2004-12-06 at 17:11, Brian Kaney wrote:
> > On Sat, 2004-11-20 at 15:22, Jon wrote:
> > > > Greetings,
> > > >
> > > > How difficult is it to save a shopping cart on behalf of a different user?
> > > >
> > > > I'd make it available only to privileged users.  The business goal is to create
> > > > custom quotations for individual customers and then allow them to quickly
> > > > purchase.  I think the built-in saved shopping cart function seems to be the
> > > > best approach.
> > > >
> > > >
> > >
> > > Sorry if this doesn't sounds nice but why not just become that user ?
> > > And of course only available to privileged users.
> > > This makes me think of   su - OtherUser
> > > Followed up with the saved shopping cart for that user.
> > >
> >
> > I am trying out the switch user function from the "customers" panel.
> >
> > Is there a way I can tell if a user was *previously* logged in as a
> > privileged user (like and admin or superuser)?
> >
> > I think there must be some way to tell.  If I logout, I become the last
> > user I was logged in as.
> >
>
> I am trying this method.  Basically, I look in session to see if 'su'
> has been set:
>
> [perl]
> if($Session->{su})
> {
>     return "You were an admin before!";
> }
> else
> {
>     return "You were never an admin!";
> }
> [/perl]
>
> Is this a good idea, is it safe to rely on this?
>
> Thanks in advance.
>
> - Brian
>

Sorry if I was unclear what I was thinking but I wasn't meaning to literally su to the
user.
You're the admin of the cart and unless you have passwords encrypted couldn't
you log in as that user to solve what you're trying to accomplish ?

Jon