What's the best way to...

[willl]

Hi there,

I have the lovely job of redisigning my company's website. One of the new functions will be to keep a record of a visitor's referring url along with any purchase they make.

At the moment I plan to grab the referring url and store it in the browsers session id and once they have made a purchase I can recall it and enter it in with the database along with their order.

Is the best way to do this??

Should I be using cookies instead (its an insurance website so it's not like I will need a shopping basket)

Any help will be appreciated,

Thanks

Will

[Installer]

Storing it in a session would work ok, but why not put it directly into your database?

As an aside, keeping what some might consider extraneous "personally identifiable information" could raise some concerns, even for something seemingly harmless as this. I'd just keep the referrer data somewhere completely separate from necessary customer information.

[phpsky]

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