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texte = Excellent suggestion. We have now begun to use cookies to setcarts. Thatway if someone leaves the site, there cart will retain products incase theycome back to purchase. I would add to the [cookiecart tag], the ability to specifiy a name, so ifyou are running more than one store you can have a different cookiecart foreach one. Maybe something like [cartcookie name=mystorecart].JoshAt 12:23 AM 2/3/99, you wrote:>This is one of two or three more emails I have to write, so if you don'tlike my>opinions, you may want to stop reading now...>>For those of you who are left, The first thing that probably needs tochange to>stay current in the field of E-commerce is the use of cookies to pass cart>values. As much as I haven't been a fan of cookies, there is a use forthem, and>most people whose browsers are capable have learned that they need to accept>cookies from shoppable sites if they want to shop. In ways, it has become>a defacto standard.>>Although WebCatalog has a cookie mechanism built in, I think It could bevastly>improved to help facilitate using carts.>>As far as I can tell, There are three ways to pass a cart value>2 are in a URL>....?cart=[cart]>....&cart=[cart]>1 in hidden inputs>>>Therefor we need three newish cart tags:>[&cart] [?cart] [input-cart]>these would all look for the presence of a cart in a cookie named cart>and hide themselves if their presence was not needed, and they would fill in>just like the above examples if a browser failed to send back a cartvalue, but>WebCatalog would be programmed (possibly with a user selectable setting toturn>this off?) to attempt to set a cookie with the current cart on any pagerequest>that didn't include the cart cookie. Also, if WebCatalog detects a cookienamed>cart, it uses that value automatically for all cart tags that may beneeded on>that page. Now I can hear some of you saying just set the cookie on thefirst>page, and forget about passing carts but that won't work, and you have tohave>a cart link for every link for the older browsers.>>This will facilitate the elimination of dropped carts for browsers that>support cookies (like you've never created a link and forgot the carttag!), as>well as helping recall the contents of a cart if a shopper returns in a few>hours (or from the non-shopping part of a site). (or if they reload the home>page (without the cart in the URL) etc, etc...>> Brian B. Burton> BOFH - Department of Redundancy Department>---------------------------------------------------------------> MMT Solutions - Specializing in Online Shopping Solutions> 973-808-8644 http://www.safecommerce.com>>Are you a Web Programmer?>I am today.>>>>---------------------------------------------------------------------------Joshua Blank Pop Art LLC http://pop-art.comjosh@pop-art.com eCommerce / Web Design / Multimedia7000 SW Hampton St. tel: (503) 968.5957Suite 124 fax: (503) 620.8487Portland, OR 97223-8361
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Excellent suggestion. We have now begun to use cookies to setcarts. Thatway if someone leaves the site, there cart will retain products incase theycome back to purchase. I would add to the [cookiecart tag], the ability to specifiy a name, so ifyou are running more than one store you can have a different cookiecart foreach one. Maybe something like [cartcookie name=mystorecart].JoshAt 12:23 AM 2/3/99, you wrote:>This is one of two or three more emails I have to write, so if you don'tlike my>opinions, you may want to stop reading now...>>For those of you who are left, The first thing that probably needs tochange to>stay current in the field of E-commerce is the use of cookies to pass cart>values. As much as I haven't been a fan of cookies, there is a use forthem, and>most people whose browsers are capable have learned that they need to accept>cookies from shoppable sites if they want to shop. In ways, it has become>a defacto standard.>>Although WebCatalog has a cookie mechanism built in, I think It could bevastly>improved to help facilitate using carts.>>As far as I can tell, There are three ways to pass a cart value>2 are in a URL>....?cart=[cart]>....&cart=[cart]>1 in hidden inputs>[cart]>>>Therefor we need three newish cart tags:>[&cart] [?cart] [input-cart]>these would all look for the presence of a cart in a cookie named cart>and hide themselves if their presence was not needed, and they would fill in>just like the above examples if a browser failed to send back a cartvalue, but>WebCatalog would be programmed (possibly with a user selectable setting toturn>this off?) to attempt to set a cookie with the current cart on any pagerequest>that didn't include the cart cookie. Also, if WebCatalog detects a cookienamed>cart, it uses that value automatically for all cart tags that may beneeded on>that page. Now I can hear some of you saying just set the cookie on thefirst>page, and forget about passing carts but that won't work, and you have tohave>a cart link for every link for the older browsers.>>This will facilitate the elimination of dropped carts for browsers that>support cookies (like you've never created a link and forgot the carttag!), as>well as helping recall the contents of a cart if a shopper returns in a few>hours (or from the non-shopping part of a site). (or if they reload the home>page (without the cart in the URL) etc, etc...>> Brian B. Burton> BOFH - Department of Redundancy Department>---------------------------------------------------------------> MMT Solutions - Specializing in Online Shopping Solutions> 973-808-8644 http://www.safecommerce.com>>Are you a Web Programmer?>I am today.>>>>---------------------------------------------------------------------------Joshua Blank Pop Art LLC http://pop-art.comjosh@pop-art.com eCommerce / Web Design / Multimedia7000 SW Hampton St. tel: (503) 968.5957Suite 124 fax: (503) 620.8487Portland, OR 97223-8361
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