Different Header based on landing page...one database

Hi All...before I dive in with ZC, I want to see if this is possible.

I have a domain name lets call http://www.somesalesite.com

I advertise in many publications. I put in the ads a different "landing" page, such as somesalesite.com/pub1, somesalesite.com/charity1

Is there a way that I can have the corresponding header (pub1 or charity1) show throught the user's session? All the products are the same.

Something like you go to somesalesite.com/pub1. It stores the pub1 as a variable and then redirects to the home page with the header based on the variable?

I see that there is a multiple store addon, but the stores are not really different. plus I don't want to have 20 different domain names.

Thanks for any help in advance! :thumbsup:
-steve

http://www.zen-cart.com/forum/showthread.php?t=55487
You could use similar option as per thread above

using session_start() or zen_session_start() outside of the zencart.

Hi all, I asked a similar question before when I first started out, but now that I am more familiar with ZC and sessions, I want to ask again. First off, here is a link to my shop:http://www.energetixjewelry.com/shop

We do fund raisers with different charities, lets say, for example, and Autism charity. A certain amount of the proceeds go to the charity. So we would advertise the domain of: http://www.energetixjewelry.com/aut From there I would like to store a session variable that will remain after the page is forwarded to the shop url.http://www.energetixjewelry.com/shop

what I have now is an index page in the /aut/ directory. on the page I have:

if (!isset($_SESSION)) {
session_start(); // This connects to the existing session 
session_register ("landing"); // Create a session variable called name 
$_SESSION['landing'] = 'aut';

then i use a php header location to redirect to the main shop url. now my problem is calling that variable on the main page. I want to be able to switch the header image based on what page the user first entered at.

Any ideas?

forced:

A certain amount of the proceeds go to the charity.How are you doing this part?

DrByte:

How are you doing this part?

Depends on the charity, but we will use coupon codes to keep track of the sales... I am not totally familiar with the admin process of that part. I am only the web designer...

If i use this code on a test page to display the landing value it works fine.... but when I tried putting in on the index.php page of zen... I got an error: Fatal error: Call to a member function add_current_page() on a non-object in D:\Inetpub\energetixjewelry\shop\includes\autoload_func.php on line 90

if (!isset($_SESSION)) {
  session_start();
}

So, you said you want anyone going to the /aut/ folder to be auto-redirected to the /shop/ folder and know where it came from?

DrByte:

So, you said you want anyone going to the /aut/ folder to be auto-redirected to the /shop/ folder and know where it came from?
Yes... so that I can use a different header image depending on where they first came in from.

How about something like this:

1. /aut/index.php```
   header("HTTP/1.1 301 Moved Permanently");
   header("Location: ../shop/index.php?main_page=index&ref=aut");

And, of course ref=aut could be ref=unitedway or whatever you plan to use later in your code.
In step 3 you'll see that this is also used as an auto-redeem coupon code by setting the 'cc_id' session variable. 

2. /shop/includes/auto_loaders/config.referral_tracking.php```
<?php
/**
 * @package initSystem
 * @copyright Copyright 2003-2007 Zen Cart Development Team
 * @license http://www.zen-cart.com/license/2_0.txt GNU Public License V2.0
 * @version $Id: config.referral_tracking.php 2006-03-06 drbyte $
 */
  $auto Load Config[100][] = array('autoType'=>'init_script',
                                 'loadFile'=> 'init_referral_tracking.php');
?>

(remove the spaces in auto Load Config before saving)

3. /shop/includes/init_includes/init_referral_tracking.php```

4. In your template, call the appropriate header image based on whatever $_SESSION['referral_code'] contains.

:clap::clap: You are the man! Can we give hugs on this board? :hug:

Seems to be working like a champ.

I used the following code to create the variable for the image:

if ($_SESSION['referral_code'] != '') {
	$MY_HEADER_LOGO_IMAGE = $_SESSION['referral_code'];
		} else {
		$MY_HEADER_LOGO_IMAGE = 'header'; 
		}

I used the following code for the header image:

echo '<a href="' . HTTP_SERVER . DIR_WS_CATALOG . '">' . '<img src="https://www4027.ssldomain.com/energetixjewelry/shop/includes/templates/energetix/images/' . $MY_HEADER_LOGO_IMAGE. '.gif"' . '</a>'; 

Is there more of a zen way, other than putting the full image URL?