Account Product Linking

[DavidGeran]

Hi,

How can I link an image on my home page to a product within my catalog pages without the web site losing the account logged in details??

If I use a normal link, the web site forgets its user account status.

Using a link like

http://www.youraromatherapy.co.uk/c...#a328&NOLOGIN=1

takes a user to the login page.

Any help much appreciated.

Regards,
Dave

www.youraromatherapy.co.uk

[DavidGeran]

Norman? Chris? Anyone?!

[Nadeem]

Hi David

Sorry, but i can't read the link. Has the link been set in the following:

http://your.URL/cgi-bin/ss00000x.pl?SECTIONID=Section%5fPage%2ehtml&NOLOGIN=1

Taken from our Knowledgebase Article

Kind Regards

[DavidGeran]

Hi Nadeem,

I've tried that. The link is to a specific product on the catalog page so I've tried adding #a327 (product id) to the end of the link (before the NOLOGIN=1), and it just takes me to the login page.

Do I need to escape the '#'?

[Nadeem]

Do I need to escape the '#'?

Yes, if you want to set up a hyperlink to a product, try it in the following format:

<a href="http://www.myserver.com/cgi-bin/ss00000x.pl?PRODREF=12345&ACTINIC_REFERRER=http://www.myserver.com/acatalog/&NOLOGIN=1">Click here</a>

Kind Regards

[cdicken]

To link to products you need to use a link of the format...

http://your.URL/cgi-bin/ss00000x.pl?PRODREF=12345&NOLOGIN=1

Where:
· http://your.URL/cgi-bin is the URL of your CGI-BIN
· ss00000x.pl is the name of your search script with the 'x' replaced with your CGI ID number
· 12345 is the product reference of your desired product.
· &NOLOGIN=1 is an essential thing to add to the end of the URL to order to bypass the login page

[DavidGeran]

Thanks chaps, excellent service as usual