Shopping Cart Integration

[eluser]waykay[/eluser]
If you are going to use the CI cart and session class, then you REALLY need to be aware of the potential session problems in IE6. IE6 (and some other versions of IE aparently) don't like session names with an underscore (unfortunately CI's default session name is ci_session). The problem with sessions and the cart class seemed to only happen on a windows server, my apache was fine with IE6, strange??

I searched for two days and luckily there i an easy fix! You need to update 2 files. all in stances of var $sess_cookie_name = 'ci_session'; will need to be 'cisession' (you will alos need to update your ci_session mysql table to cisession)

System/application/config/config.php
$config['sess_cookie_name'] = 'cisession';// default is ci_session
$config['sess_expiration'] = 7200;
$config['sess_encrypt_cookie'] = FALSE;
$config['sess_use_database'] = TRUE;
$config['sess_table_name'] = 'cisessions';// default is ci_session
$config['sess_match_ip'] = FALSE;
$config['sess_match_useragent'] = TRUE;
$config['sess_time_to_update'] = 300;


System/libraries/Session.php
var $sess_cookie_name = 'cisession'; // default is ci_session

ALSO VERY IMPORTANT when using the CART class

when doing add to cart: the name must not have funny characters like quotes or brackets. Otherwise it won't add to cart