1. Order Numbers
I've got four sites with shopping cart systems I created. They all rely on
an on-the-fly order number creation system that gets passed in the URL
because not all visitors have cookies enabled.
However I hate passing this in the URL. I've been reading a lot about
session variables and application variables, server side, client
side... and I'm more confused than ever about what the right solution is
for my situation.
With each new shopper I need a unique ID for the shopping session that
becomes the order number. This became glaringly more imortant recently
when I found a search engine had listed a client site with an order number
in the URL. Fortunately that site didn't
have a preferred customer program so no billing information could have been
gleaned, but still - serious stuff...
2. MemberIDs
I've got two sites with preferred customer programs that use MemberIDs that
when people sign in DO get stored in cookies. Sometimes the cookies stick
and others they dont, even on my own computer. Lately sometimes in IE when
I close my browser the cookie is stuck even though it's set to expire on
browser closing...
So here again, what's a better way to store MemberID tracking that I can
check for on each page load during that member's session?
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