On Dec 7, 2009, at 4:46 PM, Ashley Sheridan wrote:

> On Mon, 2009-12-07 at 16:48 -0600, Philip Thompson wrote:
>> 
>> On Dec 7, 2009, at 4:40 PM, Ashley Sheridan wrote:
>> 
>> > On Mon, 2009-12-07 at 14:39 -0800, Allen McCabe wrote:
>> > 
>> >> I have a shopping cart type system set up which keeps track of the cart
>> >> contents using a SESSION variable, where $_SESSION['cart'][$item_id'] is
>> >> equal to the quantity, so the name/value pair is all the information I 
>> >> need.
>> >> 
>> >> But sessions are unreliable on the free server I am currently using for 
>> >> this
>> >> website (not my choice), so I had start using cookies because users were
>> >> being sporadically logged out, sometimes just on a page refresh.
>> >> 
>> >> I want to find a way to set a cookie to remember the cart items as well, 
>> >> and
>> >> I thought setting a cookie for each item/quantity pair was the way to go
>> >> until I started trying to figure out how to unset all those cookies if the
>> >> user empties their cart.
>> >> 
>> >> Is there any way to set cookies with an array for the name? Intead of
>> >> $_COOKIE['item_number'] have $_COOKIE['cart']['item_number'] like I have 
>> >> the
>> >> SESSION?
>> > 
>> > 
>> > What about storing a unique ID in the cookie, and matching it up with
>> > information for that user in a database. It's sort of simulating a
>> > sessions, but without the session handler getting involved, which looks
>> > slightly messed up from what you've said.
>> > 
>> > Thanks,
>> > Ash
>> > http://www.ashleysheridan.co.uk
>> 
>> Blast your speedier typing!! =P
>> 
>> ~Philip
>> 
> 
> By the power of Kenco!
> 
> Thanks,
> Ash
> http://www.ashleysheridan.co.uk
> 

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