[FX.php List] Returning to cookie-less session from external server

[Jonathan Schwartz]

Of course!  That's it.

You can't restart the same session you left with, but you an create a 
new session with the customer ID or other unique ID.

DOH!

As always...thanks, Steve.

J

At 6:05 PM +0000 1/29/08, Steve Winter wrote:
>Hi Jonathan,
>
>That will depend largely on the credit card payment processor. For example
>with WorldPay, whom I have used on a number of projects, and who provide an
>excellent service, it's possible to pass parameters to them, which are then
>returned in the 'callback' page (mypage.php in your example below).
>
>In the last solution I developed what I did was to pass the FMP recID as a
>parameter into, and received back from WorldPay.
>
>Random thought as an alternative, if that's not a solution, do you have to
>provide some sort of unique 'cart id' to the payment server...? and is this
>information still available to you after processing. If so, what you could
>do is to create a separate FMP table, which contains the cart ID and the
>current PHP session ID. Just before you hand the client off to the payment
>server, create a new record in that table. When they return from the payment
>server, sue the cart ID to relocate the session ID...??
>
>Cheers
>Steve
>
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>Sent: 29 January 2008 16:51
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>Subject: [FX.php List] Returning to cookie-less session from external server
>
>Hi Folks,
>
>How to do successfully return from a third party server (credit card
>payment) when using SID for a no cookies browser? Session is started
>locally, then off to cc payment and then back.
>
>I do have the ability specify the returning page in the third party
>set up.  It currently just has "mypage.php".   I'm not sure whether I
>should try to add the SID.  And even if I could, I couldn't add if
>/else.
>
>Or, can you simply restart the session with SID when arriving at the
>return page?
>
>Any suggestions?
>
>J
>
>
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