Not your typical site setup

[mattyb]

The website for our company is setup in two parts. The first being the information pages. The second is the shopping cart. What I'm looking to do is showcase items with some info. pages and have a link to those items in the shopping cart. I want to know how I go about doing this. I would like to do it to keep the cookies intact. I'm not too good with php so any help is greatly appreciated. Thanx in advance.

[davidstummer]

for the products that you want to showcase in the info pages, go to the relevant product in your cataloge, copy the url at the top of the page, and use this for a link

[mattyb]

What do I do about the osCID= part so that it stays unique for each unique IP?

[davidstummer]

i don't really understand your reply.

 

if you have catalog/product_info.php?cPath=1_8&products_id=25

 

this will always point to this keyboard.

 

what have IP addresses got to do with things??

[mattyb]

I'm sorry I'm not being to clear. If you were to take the link below:

 

catalog/product_info.php?cPath=1_8&products_id=25

 

and add:

 

&osCsid=d1f20faf68f5caa84cbeb52f70b4e280

 

to the end of it, that's what it looks like in my cart. Now is there someway to turn off the osCid? That's what I was talking about before with keeping it unique.

[davidstummer]

cud u post the adress of your site, it wud be easier then.

 

i still don't really understand, but if u dont want the osCsid, u cud trying adding osCcid=null

[mattyb]

sure it's

 

http://www.blackswanhome.com/catalog

[davidstummer]

just don't include the ending &osCsid=.....

[mattyb]

Thanx for the help. I wasn't sure if that was important or not.

[Rob123]

You need to be careful. If you do not include the osCid, you risk that visitors will lose the items in their cart as they go back and forth between "parts" of your site.

 

If you are using the same domain name for both "parts" AND both "parts" are using php, I suggest that you use the osC function tep_href_link.

 

If you don't, I suggest you do a lot of testing.

 

Robert