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Customer Order Reference Numbers

Thread began 8/10/2009 7:15 am by jenkolaka19379118 | Last modified 8/12/2009 4:57 pm by Eric Mittman | 2891 views | 3 replies |

jenkolaka19379118

Customer Order Reference Numbers

Hi all,

I just wondered if ecart could do the following?

When a customer finishes a transaction, they recieve an order reference number e.g

Thank you for your order your reference number is 9823750.

Then with this number they can track thier order. Is there a way this number can be dynamically generated and inserted in my order details table as well as displayed to the customer on a confirmation page? or do I have to manually create this number with each order?

I'm sure this has a simple answer but I can't work out how to do this.

Many thanks in advance.

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Eric Mittman

If you have specific criteria for the reference number then it will need to be a custom thing that you generate manually based on your requirements. By default eCart uses the session id as the unique identifier for the order. This is the value you see as your order number. It will be inserted into the db for the order reference id. It is usually a good length string that contains both numbers and characters.

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jenkolaka19379118

Thanks Eric,

I did not actually realise ecart had this feature. That is my problem solved!

Just for knowledge sake, in a nutshell how does ecart generate the random string using php?

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Eric Mittman

It is the session id that eCart uses. In PHP this is:

php:
<?php session_id(); ?>



If you assign this value to a variable or print it after calling the session start function you will have the session id. Here is a link to the PHP page for this:

php.net/session_id

This is also how you would set the session id yourself if you needed to.

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