How to set cart for a day

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I am working on a shopping cart application. when user select particular product, then that product's id, quantity and price store in session. But when I close the browser all data from $_SESSION['cart'] is deleted, but I want when again I visit my site the last selected entity should be display. I am using price, qty and product id as -

<?
$_SESSION['cart'] = array();
$_SESSION['cart'][0]['productId'] = $pid;
$_SESSION['cart'][0]['qty'] = 1;
$_SESSION['cart'][0]['price'] = $price
?>

please tell me how to retain the selected values in session even after closing the browser. If you have any other approach? Thanks.

score 1 · Answer 1 · answered Apr 10 '13 at 06:36

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Obviously, save the data to the cookies or database!
Session lasts until timeout (if there is any) or when you close the browser.

answered Apr 10 '13 at 06:36

Andrejs Cainikovs

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Is there any way by which i could set my cart timing for a day. – nitin7805 Apr 10 '13 at 06:39

score 0 · Answer 2 · answered Apr 10 '13 at 06:41

When you are setting the session data just set a cookie along with it:

setcookie('cart' , true, time()+60*60*24*7);
setcookie('productID' , $pid, time()+60*60*24*7);
setcookie('qty' , '1', time()+60*60*24*7);
setcookie('price' , $price, time()+60*60*24*7);

Than within a global header check to see if a person is not signed in (via session variable existing) and if they are not, check to see if the cookie exists, and if it is, populate your cart via that.

You will of course need to initiate a new session, but that is outside the scope of this question.

score 0 · Answer 3 · edited May 23 '17 at 11:49

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You can see session.cookie_lifetime in your php.ini. It is 0 by default. I think it is why your session expires when the browser is closed.

Set it to 86400 for setting session cookie lifetime to a day, and recheck your site. I think it will resolve your issue.

Have a look here

php.net article

edited May 23 '17 at 11:49

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answered Apr 10 '13 at 06:48

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That is not true. Session is *always* destroyed when you close your browser. – Andrejs Cainikovs Apr 10 '13 at 06:52
Sessions are stored in server. Unless browser tells server when it is closed, I think, sessions will exist. – Vishnu R Apr 10 '13 at 06:58
Correct, they are stored on server side, but there is no way to regain them after browser restart. – Andrejs Cainikovs Apr 10 '13 at 07:00
Yes Renku still it is not working after setting the session.cookie_lifetime in php.ini. – nitin7805 Apr 10 '13 at 07:12

How to set cart for a day

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