RE: [Phplib-users] Passing session details

[Layne W. <la...@if...>]

> I have a series of three sites with separate domain names
> which I would like to share shopping cart data. I don't
> have access to DNS or apache configuration for these
> domains, but they can all access the same mysql database.
>
> I'm using phplib with the php4 sessions mods.
>
> I'm thinking that the best thing to do would be to patch
> template.inc so that whenever it encounters a link to a URL
> from a predefined list (my three domains) it automatically
> adds a session id string. The linked to site could then
> check for that string and set up its own session (with a
> separate cookie) appropriately.
>
> I'm a bit stuck for where to start with patching (or extending)
> template.inc, if indeed that is the right way to do things. I
> think I'll only ever be linking to the index page of the other
> sites. Does anyone have any pointers?


Easier than modifying template.inc would be to write a function that takes
the final output from Template and does a few regexs on it to catch all the
urls.

Layne Weathers
Ifworld Inc.