Re: customers order

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1999

It keeps the original formatting. numero = 25014
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texte = You have to uniquely define the customer somehow. You could use their email addresscombined with a password that they enter... Something to let that customer and only thatcustomer in to see his stuff. Then it is just a matter of setting up and interfacing withthe db's you need to do what you want. Like for example you append into your orders.dbthe customer's email and password along with the rest of his order, and then when he logson to see past orders - then finds all the orders with that email and password todisplay. I think using cookies would require saving a unique cookie (unique, butconsistent with that customer) value with his orders so those orders were tagged asbelonging to that customer.Hope this helps-JohnNitai wrote:> Hi all,>> This is not so much of a technical question but rather a user friendly one.>> I have seen on some sites that customers who have already ordered already> can go back to that site and look at their past orders.>> Now how would I go about setting this up? I know at the checkout page I save> their order information's to a database, BUT how can I let my customer and> ONLY this customer retrieve this info later on?>> Should I use a setcookie? Any hints?>> TIA.>> Sincerely,> Nitai>-------------------------------------------------------------Brought to you by CommuniGate Pro - The Buzz Word Compliant Messaging Server.To end your Mail problems go to .This message is sent to you because you are subscribed to the mailing list .To unsubscribe, E-mail to: To switch to the DIGEST mode, E-mail to Associated Messages, from the most recent to the oldest:

Re: customers order (John Butler 1999)
customers order (Nitai 1999)

You have to uniquely define the customer somehow. You could use their email addresscombined with a password that they enter... Something to let that customer and only thatcustomer in to see his stuff. Then it is just a matter of setting up and interfacing withthe db's you need to do what you want. Like for example you append into your orders.dbthe customer's email and password along with the rest of his order, and then when he logson to see past orders - then finds all the orders with that email and password todisplay. I think using cookies would require saving a unique cookie (unique, butconsistent with that customer) value with his orders so those orders were tagged asbelonging to that customer.Hope this helps-JohnNitai wrote:> Hi all,>> This is not so much of a technical question but rather a user friendly one.>> I have seen on some sites that customers who have already ordered already> can go back to that site and look at their past orders.>> Now how would I go about setting this up? I know at the checkout page I save> their order information's to a database, BUT how can I let my customer and> ONLY this customer retrieve this info later on?>> Should I use a setcookie? Any hints?>> TIA.>> Sincerely,> Nitai>-------------------------------------------------------------Brought to you by CommuniGate Pro - The Buzz Word Compliant Messaging Server.To end your Mail problems go to .This message is sent to you because you are subscribed to the mailing list .To unsubscribe, E-mail to: To switch to the DIGEST mode, E-mail to John Butler

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Re: customers order

1999

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