Cart Conundrum I am building a cart system for a client who wants people to be able to add items to a cart and have the cart saved even if they don¹t login. To buy anything they ultimately will have to sign up and be logged in. We came up with this bit of logic, which works well to a point When they come to a site we set a visitor ID cookie and then as they add things to their cart we insert that visitor ID. Once they log in we loop through any cart items with that visitor ID and add in their customer ID. So now they come back but from a different browser. There is not much we can do here. They get assigned another visitor ID and the cart is empty. But as soon as they log in we are able to add their customer ID and reset the visor ID cookie to match the other browser so now we have consolidated their cart. This works really nicely. But, as I thought about the users and what they might do. I realized this would fail or at least get really confused if the user logs in from a public computer like a library. So I need to rethink this and I wonder how other people are handling this. I am open and interested in hearing peoples thoughts and how they deal with this issue. It seems it would make a useful thread.
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