How to avoid the main page?

hey guys,
i have two websites and i want to connect the first one (html files) that includes the products pics and about to my zen cart ,
so that if i click on a button from the old site ,
i will go directly to the zen cart site with the item picture and the price as if i clicked on it from the main page of the zen cart.
i made the html site so it will call directly to the product page to add to cart but it taking me directly to the main page of the zen cart .
i think its a session problem , please help guys... what can i do?:dontgetit

Zen Cart is not built to be used only as an "add to cart/buy now" tool -- that is not how it functions.

It is meant to be styled to closely match your html site and then replace/become your main portal.

It also allows product to be changed/managed in a dynamic manner so that you do not have to edit the many pages involved in a html site.

tnx alot kobra...
anyway , if someone have any ideas how to make a connection between the two websites , it will help alot... :)

Zen Cart is not intended to be modular where you can use only those things you want - it is all or nothing and your problem is a sessions issue

tnx for replying , i know its a session issue , so i think maybe i need to create new php page that will connect between the html site and zen cart site , so that the new php page will create the session and redirect to the zen cart specific item that was chosen in the html page. do i have to make only the language session?

thats it , i solved it and it workes...
the solution to this issue is to send the html page to a php page that will make
a Session for the user and redirect the user to the wanted page.

Congratulations! You have now given yourself two websites to maintain and synchronize to do the job of one site. :-)

The session linkage ability is a good thing for applications where it is really warranted, though. Perhaps you could share a bit more detail of how that is done? Will it keep the session past the 24-minute timeout period when away from Zen Cart?

gjh42:

Congratulations! You have now given yourself two websites to maintain and synchronize to do the job of one site. :-)

The session linkage ability is a good thing for applications where it is really warranted, though. Perhaps you could share a bit more detail of how that is done? Will it keep the session past the 24-minute timeout period when away from Zen Cart?

well glenn , i made it by demand, i didn't have no choice so i had to find a solution to that issue , and connecting two websites.
the solution is to call from the html page to a php page that will stay in the zen cart folder, it will create the session for you , just like the session creation in the index.php file of the zen cart , so it looks familiar to the system , and it will not create a double session , because a session has already been made.
thats it.