I have a Zen Cart (1.3.7, PHP version 5.2.5, MySql 5.0.22) installation on a Coldfusion site that manages a membership association. I use Zen Cart to handle payments for memberships, and to register and pay for association meetings and training sessions.

I would like to pass a Coldfusion session variable (user_id) to zen cart and have it populate a product attribute text field so that I can tie an event registration back to the users attendance record in another MySql table.

Questions:

1. Is it possible to populate a product attribute text field with a session variable?

2. If so, how do I convert the Coldfusion session.variable to a PHP session variable.

Thanks for any ideas you may have.