Re: Carts & Refering URLs

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1997


It keeps the original formatting.
numero = 15420
interpreted = N
texte = At 10:32 AM -0800 12/5/97, Christer Olsson is rumored to have typed: > Hmmm... would this really solve the problem? Wouldn't a > > [hideif [referer]^http://www.mydomain.com] > Please go to our starting page > [/hideif] > > on each of the detail pages be a better way to go?Only if you want and need your customer to go to your home page to start shopping.On my site, I want people to be able to come in via any bookmark without seeing an error message. I don't want them to have to start looking through my site for something they thought they were linking to directly.On the top of each template, I have an INCLUDE that checks to see if the referring page is from my site. If it isn't, I assign a unique number to a variable using a MATH context[MATH SHOW=f]NEWCART=[DATE][TIME][RANDOM][/MATH]If it is, I set the variable to the incoming cart number [MATH SHOW=f]NEWCART=[CART][/MATH]Then, in each HREF or FORM, I say CART=[MATH]NEWCART[/MATH]Works great.MichaelMichael Winston *By Phone!: (503)/652/8815 x341 Internet Coordinator *By e-mail!: michaelw@dhorse.com Dark Horse Comics, Inc. *By web!: http://www.dhorse.com/ Associated Messages, from the most recent to the oldest:

    
  1. [WebDNA] Old carts not deleting (Stuart Tremain 2015)
  2. [WebDNA] ShoppingCarts issue (=?ISO-8859-1?Q?Cristi=E1n_Tapia?= 2009)
  3. [WebDNA] ShoppingCarts folder permissions (Paul Willis 2008)
  4. Re: emptying shopping carts and orders folder ( Donovan Brooke 2004)
  5. Re: emptying shopping carts and orders folder ( "Paul Berman" 2004)
  6. Re: emptying shopping carts and orders folder ( Donovan Brooke 2004)
  7. Re: emptying shopping carts and orders folder ( "Paul Berman" 2004)
  8. Re: emptying shopping carts and orders folder ( John Peacock 2004)
  9. Re: emptying shopping carts and orders folder ( "Paul Berman" 2004)
  10. Re: emptying shopping carts and orders folder ( Donovan Brooke 2004)
  11. Re: emptying shopping carts and orders folder ( "Paul Berman" 2004)
  12. SQL ShoppingCarts v5.x ( Bob Minor 2003)
  13. ShoppingCarts and Sandboxes ( Tim Robinson 2003)
  14. Re: 5.0: Blank shopping carts & other weirdness (WJ Starck 2003)
  15. Re: 5.0: Blank shopping carts & other weirdness (John Peacock 2003)
  16. 5.0: Blank shopping carts & other weirdness (WJ Starck 2003)
  17. Re: Multiple Carts with Mac IE (Kenneth Grome 2002)
  18. Multiple Carts with Mac IE (Richard Kirsner 2002)
  19. Re: moved shoppingCarts folder... now there's nothing in it. (Josh Lynn 2001)
  20. Re: moved shoppingCarts folder... now there's nothing in it. (Will Starck 2001)
  21. moved shoppingCarts folder... now there's nothing in it. (Josh Lynn 2001)
  22. Re: Shopping Carts folder does not exist in Linux (John Peacock 2000)
  23. Shopping Carts folder does not exist in Linux (John Winningham 2000)
  24. Re: WebCatalog not recognizing ShoppingCarts folder (WebDNA Support 2000)
  25. Re: WebCatalog not recognizing ShoppingCarts folder (John Winningham 2000)
  26. Re: WebCatalog not recognizing ShoppingCarts folder (Bob McPeak 2000)
  27. Re: WebCatalog not recognizing ShoppingCarts folder (Jay Van Vark 2000)
  28. Re: WebCatalog not recognizing ShoppingCarts folder (John Winningham 2000)
  29. Re: WebCatalog not recognizing ShoppingCarts folder (Jay Van Vark 2000)
  30. Re: WebCatalog not recognizing ShoppingCarts folder (John Winningham 2000)
  31. Re: WebCatalog not recognizing ShoppingCarts folder (John Butler 2000)
  32. Re: WebCatalog not recognizing ShoppingCarts folder (John Winningham 2000)
  33. WebCatalog not recognizing ShoppingCarts folder (John Winningham 2000)
  34. Re: carts on MacOS X Server (James Howarth 2000)
  35. Re: carts on MacOS X Server (John Butler 2000)
  36. Re: carts on MacOS X Server (oops) (Clement Ross 2000)
  37. Re: carts on MacOS X Server (Clement Ross 2000)
  38. Re: carts on MacOS X Server (Peter Ostry 2000)
  39. carts on MacOS X Server (Nitai 2000)
  40. Re: Carts & cookies (Brian B. Burton 1999)
  41. Re: Carts & cookies (Brian B. Burton 1999)
  42. Re: Carts in Admin folder? (PCS Technical Support 1999)
  43. Re: Carts in Admin folder? (The Mooseman 1999)
  44. Re: Carts in Admin folder? (Mícheál O Sé 1999)
  45. Re: Carts in Admin folder? (Gil Poulsen 1999)
  46. Re: Carts in Admin folder? (Mícheál O Sé 1999)
  47. Carts in Admin folder? (Gil Poulsen 1999)
  48. Re: Carts & cookies (Peter Ostry 1999)
  49. Re: Carts & cookies (Brian B. Burton 1999)
  50. Re: Carts & cookies (Christer Olsson 1999)
  51. Re: Carts & cookies (Kenneth Grome 1999)
  52. Re: Carts & cookies (josh@pop-art.com 1999)
  53. Carts & cookies (Brian B. Burton 1999)
  54. Re: Does anyone have a solution to make carts smaller? (PCS Technical Support 1998)
  55. Re: Does anyone have a solution to make carts smaller? (Carlos Machado 1998)
  56. Re: Does anyone have a solution to make carts smaller? (PCS Technical Support 1998)
  57. Re: Why don't my carts expire (Rob Schmidt 1998)
  58. Why don't my carts expire (Steve Rosenbaum 1998)
  59. Change 2.0 to 2.1: Carts files not written to disk automatically (Gilles Renoul 1998)
  60. 2.0.1: Shopping Carts deleted after 1 hour (Grant Hulbert 1997)
  61. Re: Carts & Refering URLs (John Hill 1997)
  62. Re: Carts & Refering URLs (Michael Winston 1997)
  63. Re: Carts & Refering URLs (Christer Olsson 1997)
  64. Re: Carts & Refering URLs (John Hill 1997)
  65. Carts & Refering URLs (John Benn/PetsForum Group 1997)
  66. Re: different ship dates and shopping carts -- how to? (Kenneth Grome 1997)
  67. Re: different ship dates and shopping carts -- how to? (Sandra L. Pitner 1997)
  68. Re: different ship dates and shopping carts -- how to? (Grant Hulbert 1997)
  69. Re: different ship dates and shopping carts -- how to? (Kenneth Grome 1997)
  70. different ship dates and shopping carts -- how to? (Sandra L. Pitner 1997)
  71. Re: Viewing old carts (was Re: FEW QUESTIONS) (Grant Hulbert 1997)
  72. Re: Viewing old carts (was Re: FEW QUESTIONS) (natasha 1997)
  73. Viewing old carts (was Re: FEW QUESTIONS) (Grant Hulbert 1997)
  74. Re: Shopping carts and reloading pages (Stephanie Wright 1997)
  75. Re: Shopping carts and reloading pages (Grant Hulbert 1997)
  76. Shopping carts and reloading pages (Stephanie Wright 1997)
At 10:32 AM -0800 12/5/97, Christer Olsson is rumored to have typed: > Hmmm... would this really solve the problem? Wouldn't a > > [hideif [referer]^http://www.mydomain.com] > Please go to our starting page > [/hideif] > > on each of the detail pages be a better way to go?Only if you want and need your customer to go to your home page to start shopping.On my site, I want people to be able to come in via any bookmark without seeing an error message. I don't want them to have to start looking through my site for something they thought they were linking to directly.On the top of each template, I have an INCLUDE that checks to see if the referring page is from my site. If it isn't, I assign a unique number to a variable using a MATH context[MATH SHOW=f]NEWCART=[date][time][random][/MATH]If it is, I set the variable to the incoming cart number [MATH SHOW=f]NEWCART=[cart][/MATH]Then, in each HREF or FORM, I say CART=[math]NEWCART[/MATH]Works great.MichaelMichael Winston *By Phone!: (503)/652/8815 x341 Internet Coordinator *By e-mail!: michaelw@dhorse.com Dark Horse Comics, Inc. *By web!: http://www.dhorse.com/ Michael Winston

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