I want a customer to be able to see whats in their cart on different computers. For example, if I place Catcher in the Rye in my cart and then switch computers, its still there. Amazon has this. I believe this would be accomplished with sessions but I want to be sure. Thanks
That is only possible if you use registered users that can logon from the other computer to identify themselves. There is no other way of finding out that the user is now using a different computer.
A forum, a FAQ, email notification, what else do you need?
They log in, establish a session, add to their cart, logout. Go to another computer, log in, check their cart and the product is still there. That will work?
That can work, but not by associating the user by the session id. You could add a temp table to add the session id and the customer_id - once a user switches to another computer they could login and pull their cart in that way. However the session_id will change per browser so this of course would not work.
umm... More coffee anyone?
Sorry that was a bit unitelligible.
Disregard the "However the session_id will change per browser so this of course would not work."
I was referring to DaMasta's post
