blank or empty cookies

mrsocks

hello,

i have created a shopping cart requireing that a session or cookie ID to exsist and then reference the shoppers cart items with that ID. problem is that some people seem to not be creating cookies or sessions. the feild is blank (aside from a space i think) , and i need there to be a random number like the rest fo the entries.

i have pages check to see if the cookie value is set ($HTTP_COOKIE=="") and it seems to pass. i need each entry to have some sort of random value, and not be blank/

any ideas.

morphy_6deex

turn on/recompile php with trans_id so the engine will get charge of how pass the SID through pages...
and use sessions instead of cookies to store yr ID...

this should prevent if users have cookies disabled aven if thats the problem eheh

hope to have helped u... but im not sure to have understood the problem...

Bunkermaster

pass session id in query string...

morphy_6deex

Originally posted by Bunkermaster
pass session id in query string...

its stress to get care of the SID... the trans_id option i think its the solution... even if u r hosted dont forget the ini_set to have yr local php configuration... when possible....

mrsocks

Originally posted by morphy@6deex
turn on/recompile php with trans_id so the engine will get charge of how pass the SID through pages...
and use sessions instead of cookies to store yr ID...

i will look into that, but if you can be a bit more detailed as to what that does.

i orgianlly used sessions, but then a shopper would have to close his browser then reopen it if he wanted to be able to place another order. the items are stored in a table, the product ID and session ID are stored there, when they checkout, all that sessionID s are selected and then shown in the checkout. even using a variable that turns it on or off after they processs the order, there is no way to reset the session ID in order to show only those items from the second order as a seperate order.

did that make sense?

that is why i use cookies now for the random number session variable. i can reset it after the order has been processed and then create a new random "session" ID to reference that new order.

i could probably have the ($HTTP_COOKIE=="") check to see if there are a certain number of characters and remove any blank spaces....right? that way, even if a person is using some sort of cookie blocker, they would have to make up some sort of string.

thanks