persistent zenid and logout problem

[DrByte]

Yes, it is possible that going to the main page with cookies disabled will dump your cart contents, since in "some" cases, there is no zenid applied to the "home" link.

Simple solution: don't do that.
More complicated solution: Change all the "home" links to be generated via zen_href_link() instead of the prettier-displayed links produced by HTTP_SERVER+DIR_WS_CATALOG. This way you can satisfy the 2% of users who are too scared to have cookies enabled in their browser even though they're not too scared to share their credit card online while shopping.

[bikemike]

Hmmm. "They all do that sir"!

I hear you on the security choices our customer make, but it's pretty inexplicable for the customer to have his data dumped on some pages and not others.

Not sure why that should be.

Anyway, taking your suggestion, I had searched for the link before I posted, and I found this in mytemplate\common\tpl_header.php:

    <div id="logoWrapper">
        <div id="logo"><?php echo '<a href="' . HTTP_SERVER . DIR_WS_CATALOG . '">' . zen_image($template->get_template_dir("logo.gif", DIR_WS_TEMPLATE, $current_page_base,'images'). '/' . "logo.gif", HEADER_ALT_TEXT) . '</a>'; ?></div>
    </div>

Is this where I'd need to make the change?

When you say prettier-displayed links, what would be the difference in how the links look to the customer, and how do I change them to make them work for cookies off (I've seen about a quarter of my browsers (excluding spiders) using cookies-off)

[DrByte]

'<a href="' . HTTP_SERVER . DIR_WS_CATALOG . '">';

becomes

zen_href_link(FILENAME_DEFAULT);

Your "home" link will change from: www.mysite.com/store
to the longer: www.mysite.com/store/index.php?main_page=index&zenid=2452452525

[bikemike]

Thanks,
But can I include my logo and alt text in the link, as they are in the standard setup?

<div id="logo"><?php echo '<a href="' . HTTP_SERVER . DIR_WS_CATALOG . '">' . zen_image($template->get_template_dir("logo.gif", DIR_WS_TEMPLATE, $current_page_base,'images'). '/' . "logo.gif", HEADER_ALT_TEXT) . '</a>'; ?></div>

I've looked for a way to pass zen_href_link an image, or a way to pass zen_image a link, to no avail.


This of course will not work as the zen link is comlplete and self contained:

<div id="logo"><?php echo zen_href_link(FILENAME_DEFAULT) . zen_image($template->get_template_dir("logo.gif", DIR_WS_TEMPLATE, $current_page_base,'images'). '/' . "logo.gif", HEADER_ALT_TEXT) . '</a>'; ?></div>

[DrByte]

my bad ...

'<a href="' . HTTP_SERVER . DIR_WS_CATALOG . '">';

becomes

'<a href="' . zen_href_link(FILENAME_DEFAULT) . '">';

... need more coffee ...

[bikemike]

Thanks Dr Byte, I could have looked at that a little closer too!

It's working now.

Cheers