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Author: Matt Robertson
Short Link: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-talk/thread.cfm/threadid:32461#163000
Many moons ago, I made my cart ID a concatenation of client.cfid, "_",
client.cftoken, "_" and client.hitcount. Once a purchase was completed
I reset the cart id by recreating it. Since the hitcount was different,
I got a new, unique cart ID pretty much automatically and maintained the
ability to tie it to a specific visitor.
I haven't done that in a *long* time, and I don't think I would do it
again. As has been pointed out, there are better ways to accomplish the
job of prepping a cart for re-use, plus ID'ing a computer isn't
necessarily the same thing as ID'ing a person. I only mention it in
case you are in a bind and need a fast solution, simply implemented.
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Matt Robertson matt@mysecretbase.com
MSB Designs, Inc. http://mysecretbase.com
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Thanx Barney... Looks like I¹ll have make some changes to my code....
BZaccheo
On 5/12/04 11:13 AM, "Barney Boisvert" <lists@audiencecentral.com>
wrote:
> That's your problem. CFID and CFTOKEN are internal CF variables, they
are
> meaningless outside the realm of CF tracking visitors. I HIGHLY
recommend
> you quickly abort the practice of using them for anything in your
> application, and instead store a UUID (or whatever) in the session
scope
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Author: Butch Zaccheo
Short Link: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-talk/thread.cfm/threadid:32461#162999
Thanx Barney... Looks like I¹ll have make some changes to my code....
BZaccheo
On 5/12/04 11:13 AM, "Barney Boisvert" <lists@audiencecentral.com> wrote:
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Author: Barney Boisvert
Short Link: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-talk/thread.cfm/threadid:32461#162997
That's your problem. CFID and CFTOKEN are internal CF variables, they are
meaningless outside the realm of CF tracking visitors. I HIGHLY recommend
you quickly abort the practice of using them for anything in your
application, and instead store a UUID (or whatever) in the session scope
when a session is created, and use that as your transaction ID.
Cheers,
barneyb
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Author: Barney Boisvert
Short Link: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-talk/thread.cfm/threadid:32461#162995
Then you session is gone. CFID and CFTOKEN identify a computer (they're
cookies), they don't identify a session. You can use CFCOOKIE to "unset"
them, but that's not going to change anything, because the session is
already gone.
Cheers,
barneyb
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Author: Butch Zaccheo
Short Link: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-talk/thread.cfm/threadid:32461#162993
I use cfid and cftoken for an unique identifier for my shopping cart.... So
with each new transaction I need a new identifier....
On 5/12/04 11:03 AM, "Raymond Camden" <ray@camdenfamily.com> wrote:
> But why do you care about that? CFID/CFTOKEN are how CF indentifies you. You
> should not need to worry about it. If all you care about is clearing the
> session, then just clear it. It doesn't matter if you keep the
id/token.
Author: Raymond Camden
Short Link: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-talk/thread.cfm/threadid:32461#162992
But why do you care about that? CFID/CFTOKEN are how CF indentifies you. You
should not need to worry about it. If all you care about is clearing the
session, then just clear it. It doesn't matter if you keep the id/token.
Author: Butch Zaccheo
Short Link: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-talk/thread.cfm/threadid:32461#162990
Yes I am trying to reset my session and yes I did delete all session
variables... But for some reason the same CFID and CFTOKEN keep showing
up....
On 5/12/04 9:35 AM, "Raymond Camden" <ray@camdenfamily.com> wrote:
> What are you trying to do? Reset your session? Have you tried simply using
> structDelete to remove session vars, or structClear to empty the entire
> session?
Author: Raymond Camden
Short Link: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-talk/thread.cfm/threadid:32461#162976
What are you trying to do? Reset your session? Have you tried simply using
structDelete to remove session vars, or structClear to empty the entire
session?
Author: Butch Zaccheo
Short Link: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-talk/thread.cfm/threadid:32461#162974
Is there a way to renew CFID and CFTOKEN without shutting down your
browser???? I¹ve tried many different ways to do this and nothing has
worked!
In application.cfm I have session variables enabled, they are not stored in
cookies...
Bzaccheo
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