How do you get the cookies to hold the cart contents

Hello,

Here are my current Sessions settings:

Session Directory /var/www/vhosts/mysite.com/httpdocs/cache
Cookie Domain True
Force Cookie Use False
Check SSL Session ID False
Check User Agent False
Check IP Address False
Prevent Spider Sessions True
Recreate Session True
IP to Host Conversion Status false

Is it possible to have my customers carts using cookies if enabled on their side and sessions if not? I am having customers telling me they spend a lot of time looking for things and come back the next day and their cart is empty.:yuck: So they end up purchasing less than they would have or not at all.

HELP!

Thank you,

Shrimp-Gumbo

If I login over at Dell ... I can go back next week and see what I added ...

Might suggest that to your customers ...

Is it possible to have my customers carts using cookies if enabled on their side and sessions if not? I am having customers telling me they spend a lot of time looking for things and come back the next day and their cart is empty. So they end up purchasing less than they would have or not at all.

If they have created an account and login, their cart will be saved forever.

Thanks Ajeh and Kim,

I know you mean well but I just do not see anyway that I can guarantee that all my customers will see a message that they must log in without losing there cart without having a flashing banner that either annoys or scares them away from my site or sends them to another page to explain that if they don't log in now all their searching may be in vain (what if they don't have anything in their cart yet and I need that banner space to try to get them to buy something?).

If I could create a banner that explained everything in it, it would be taking up valuable real estate space on my site and I would not be able to automatically take it down once they logged in to free that space up....

Could you tell me how to tweak my cart to allow a session to remain for 3 days before it is emptied?:unsure:

Thank you!

Shrimp-Gumbo

Login now or lose it! :smartalec:

Add a nice top to the shopping cart such as an image or something eye appealing and eye catching ...

Open your includes/languages/english/shopping_cart.php. Customize the message to give your customers the information they need.

define('TEXT_INFORMATION', 'You may want to add some instructions for using the shopping cart here. (defined in includes/languages/english/shopping_cart.php)');