Sharing a shopping cart between 2 sites...

Hello,

Just a little problem. I want to share a shopping cart between 2 php sites
for example foo and fii.
There'is no login / password solution wanted, so i must use cookie and
session.

If i use this http://www.foo.com and http://www.fii.com the session_id()
will be different in the 2 sites so i can't recognize the user.

If i use CNAME with a common domain 'stuff'
http://foo.stuff.com, http://foo.stuff.com the session_id() will different
but i can use this:
setcookie ("TestCookie", $value_md5,time()+3600, "/", ".stuff.com", 0); the
cookie will be accessible from the 2 sites, not the $_SESSION but i can put
my vars in database using TestCookie as id.

BUT, my boss want not an alias url, he wants http://www.foo.com, so i think
it's impossible. Am I right ?

PS: pointing http://www.foo.com to http://.foo.stuff.com doesn't change the
url so it doesn't resolve anything
PS: using only remote ip to identify someone is impossible because of proxy,
intranet etc...

CanardWC wrote:

> Hello,
>
> Just a little problem. I want to share a shopping cart between 2 php sites
> for example foo and fii.
> There'is no login / password solution wanted, so i must use cookie and
> session.
>
> If i use this http://www.foo.com and http://www.fii.com the session_id()
> will be different in the 2 sites so i can't recognize the user.
>
> If i use CNAME with a common domain 'stuff'
> http://foo.stuff.com, http://foo.stuff.com the session_id() will
> different but i can use this:
> setcookie ("TestCookie", $value_md5,time()+3600, "/", ".stuff.com", 0);
> the
> cookie will be accessible from the 2 sites, not the $_SESSION but i can
> put my vars in database using TestCookie as id.
>
> BUT, my boss want not an alias url, he wants http://www.foo.com, so i
> think it's impossible. Am I right ?
>
> PS: pointing http://www.foo.com to http://.foo.stuff.com doesn't change
> the url so it doesn't resolve anything
> PS: using only remote ip to identify someone is impossible because of
> proxy, intranet etc...

Hi,

I think you will need a custom session handler. If you save your sessions in
the db, you can recall the session from multiple sites. See for more
informatie the article at www.phpbuilder.com

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