Can anyone provide a sample of "Recently viewed items" that is shown on Ebay and Amazon. I have tried coding this with cookies but can only retrieve one value. I don't know how the cookie code looks with multiple values stored. I would like like to show the last 3 viewed items everytime the user goes back to view the merchandise list page. Thanks in advance for your assistance!
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Recently viewed items code
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recently viewed items are usually accompanied with logins. or username/password identities. Then you track the users movement through the items.
during this process you would have a back-end data source (for this a DB) and perform strategic inserts on what items the user views.
Then giving the user a option to view recent items in the form of a link/button etc.. you simply query the database either by the last week/day/session or whatever you think recent is to your visitors. That usually greatly depends on the content or items themselves. if it is a car, you want to keep it recent for months, but if it's a flavor of jelly beans, a session may be fine.
that is how I've done it and would recommend it. It's a easy process to set up and easy to maintain.
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during this process you would have a back-end data source (for this a DB) and perform strategic inserts on what items the user views.
Then giving the user a option to view recent items in the form of a link/button etc.. you simply query the database either by the last week/day/session or whatever you think recent is to your visitors. That usually greatly depends on the content or items themselves. if it is a car, you want to keep it recent for months, but if it's a flavor of jelly beans, a session may be fine.
that is how I've done it and would recommend it. It's a easy process to set up and easy to maintain.
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I would like very much to have this accomplished through cookies. I think tracking the info in a database would result in slow performance of the website if there are a lot of users on at one time....and unnecessary data in the database. Ebay codes the "Recently viewed items" using cookies -- users do not have to login. If you turn off cookies, "recently viewed items" are not shown. I don't know how the cookie code looks with multiple values stored dynamically using ASP code. Can anyone point me in the right direction? Thanks!
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