Are your download products appending long string to URL?

[Jeff_Mash]

I'm have tested this on 1.5.5 and 1.5.7, and I'm not sure why this is happening. I just want to confirm if this is normal behavior that I've simply never noticed, or if there is something wrong on my site.

It seems that when someone adds a download product into their shopping cart, there is a long "product_id" appended to the end of the URL.

Steps to reproduce:

1. Go to our website (https://www.mjmmagic.com).
2. Add this product to your shopping cart (it's a download item): https://www.mjmmagic.com/store/the-v...d-p-31472.html
3. Go to the shopping cart, hover your mouse over the item, and you will see that it appends another product_id string on the end.

New URL: https://www.mjmmagic.com/store/the-v...10b1fe6e6e571f



Is that normal for products that are downloads and I just never noticed it before? If it's not supposed to do that, then is there anything I can check in my code to prevent that from happening?

[lat9]

That's normal for products with attributes (including downloads). That uprid (unique product_id) consists of a hash of the attribute(s) associated with the product appended to the product's id value.

[Jeff_Mash]

Awesome, thanks for confirming that, Lat9. I can't believe I never really noticed that before! I only discovered it because one of my functions broke because I was grabbing the $_GET['product_id'] and assuming it was always a number. I had to type-cast it to an integer in my function to get around the possibility of it appending an attribute ID to the end of it.

[lat9]

Awesome, thanks for confirming that, Lat9. I can't believe I never really noticed that before! I only discovered it because one of my functions broke because I was grabbing the $_GET['product_id'] and assuming it was always a number. I had to type-cast it to an integer in my function to get around the possibility of it appending an attribute ID to the end of it.

There's a function named zen_get_prid that does that for you!