Bug

Hi Ray,

I have my pages set up to add multiple products at once. When I try to add 50 products at once it works if the cart is stored in a SESSION but it only adds 19 if the cart is stored in a COOKIE so I suggest there is a bug somewhere.

Kind regards.

Yes... browsers have cookie size limitations. It isn't a bug as much as a limitation. It would probably vary based on the browser you use but there will always be a limit.

We might be able to work on it to decrease the footprint of the cookie and get the limit up, but at some point you are always going to run into a cookie size limitation.

A solution for that is to store a unique ID for the customer in a cookie, but then save the cart into the database. Then it can function as if it were a cookie based cart and stay populated without login or registration but without inherent cookie size limitations.

I can do that. I take it the best practice would be to save the cart to the database after every add, update or delete on the cart object?

Regards.

If you always display the cart after you add to cart then I'd just always save with any visit to the cart page. For mobile you may have to also save the cart contents in the database on the eCart_JSON.php page.

Then probably add an include to the template that checks if this is the first visit to the site (if a session variable "CartPopulated" doesn't exist) and have it populate the cart from the database and then set the session variable so it only happens once.

Hi Ray,

Many thanks, I will do as you suggested.