URGENT!!! Live cart SCREWING UP my customer orders!! HELP PLEASE

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"See in the URL the &zenid=really_long_code_here

That is the zenid or session id

You never want this to be posted in emails, forums, advertisements, newsletters, newsgroups, etc, etc, or you will be doomed ... "

I am not live yet, and just now learned what this zenid thingy is.

I have created many hyperlinks from one product to another or a page to a category (all within my site) and may have copied a zenid in the process. Maybe this is easly done when you are working part time on a site.

Does this mean I should go back and check every hyperlink that I may have created on my site to see if a zenid is in it? I haven't looked into them yet, and the process sounds daunting. (I do not have ssl, I am on a shared server and plan to use paypal ipn if that means anything.)

Wade

Justwade:

I have created many hyperlinks from one product to another or a page to a category (all within my site) and may have copied a zenid in the process. Maybe this is easly done when you are working part time on a site.

Does this mean I should go back and check every hyperlink that I may have created on my site to see if a zenid is in it? I haven't looked into them yet, and the process sounds daunting. (I do not have ssl, I am on a shared server and plan to use paypal ipn if that means anything.)

Wade

Yes you should check any product that might conatin a zenid id linking. Just run the piece of mysql below and change any zenids found.

SELECT *
FROM products_description
WHERE products_description LIKE "%zenid%";

Be sure to add a table prefix, if you are using any.

Thank you for your reply masterblaster,
So I have been pondering your answer and relized that I need to learn some new things.

I have not done this much, but I went to my Cpanel, found phpMyAdmin (at the bottom of MySQL Account Maintenance page in case anyone else is looking), picked my database from several I have made up, clicked on the SQL button, and pasted the code you provided in the little box...

and got this reply;

"MySQL returned an empty result set (i.e. zero rows). (Query took 0.0001 sec)"

I'm hoping this means that I have no zenids in my hyperlinks.

And as far as table prefix, uh....... I lost ya there. (or maybe before as am wondering around in circles thinking I am getting somewhere)

aren't newbies fun?
Wade