Site integration - keeping user logged in

[makc]

I want users to be able to go to /my_page_that_has_nothing_to_do_with_zencart.php and back to zencart without being logged off. I take it that I need to add some code for this, or else zen session will expire... right?

[kobra]

How long of a side trip?? the session will not immediately cease...you should and can create a link back on your other site.

[makc]

it's the client who wants unique fancy pages for some categories. I think you're right though, even if I will renew session in the page, user session might time out, so it is only 50% worse to take a chance and hope that he won't stay there for more than few seconds.

[dbltoe]

EZPages?
They never really leave.

[kobra]

so it is only 50% worse to take a chance and hope that he won't stay there for more than few seconds.

This is not a seconds issue but more like 30 minutes if I recall correctly.

[DrByte]

Session timeout is 24 minutes.

With an advanced understanding of Zen Cart functionality, you could create dedicated pages within Zen Cart to handle specific information and perhaps integrate category/product-listing functionality within them. As a preliminary start, you could grab the "About Us" contribution and follow its example for creating dedicated pages. You could then work on a creative way to bring in a dynamic list of sub-cat/product details onto that page if that's needed.

Or you could just do a require of application_top.php on your static PHP page to keep the session active. Has to be a .php file, not a .html file unless you change your webserver configuration to parse html files as php by default.

[makc]

Thank you everybody.