A quick question about sessions.

[samo8076]

HI guys, just a quick question.

Im using session varibles to hold data etc, problem is before the data gets inserted into a database, it has to process a card payment. If the card payment is accepted it then gets inserted, problem is the payment portal is on a different website not hosted by ourselves.

With session varaibles are they held when you navigate away from the site i.e to another url? If not, any ideas what i could use as an alaternative?

thanks again.

[mendhak]

No, they're not passed to another application such as in your case. If you are using a payment gateway, then your payment gateway will have specified exactly how to pass this information along. It should be in their documentation, we can't speculate as to what it is expecting.

[samo8076]

Thanks for the reply mendhak. I pass something to the portal but that then gets passed back after to our site, so therfor we need to use the preivous set sessions again after the payment portal returns to our site.

[mendhak]

There must be an identifier which makes this transaction unique. Consider storing that unique identifier along with your session information in a database table, so that when it comes back, you have the information ready.