previously viewed

[ruthann]

It would be nice if we could have a section on the page to display the last 5 items that the visitor viewed. I have seen this on many websites recently and, as a shopper, it is very appealing. I have also seen a variation of it that displays several "similiar" items as a suggestion to the viewer.

[JeremeD]

The recently viewed items could be done with using PHP sessions. As each product is viewed, it's name, image, link, etc could be stored and then displayed in a little sidebar or wherever else.

[ruthann]

That's a good idea but wouldn't I have to change my pages to .php instead of .html? I have great placement in the search engines and I wouldn't want to do anything that would "mess" with that.
Thanks for the suggestion though...I will think about how I can do it.

Ruth

[JeremeD]

No, not at all. As long as your host allows you to create (or edit existing) htaccess files you can run PHP in files with an html extension.

Here's a tutorial: http://www.desilva.biz/php/phpinhtml.html

It's a very quick change to make.

[ruthann]

Sounds easy enough...THANKS for the tip. I am a novice at php but I have been wanting a project to use it with and test my abilities. I guess I will be busy for a while! Thanks again.

Ruth

[geek]

the link appears to be dead, does anybody know where it went.

[loren_d_c]

The Cross Sell feature to show suggested/similar/cross-sell products on a per-product basis was added to ShopSite Pro in v9.0. All built-in ShopSite shopping cart templates support this feature, but if you are using a custom shopping cart template or you also want to have the cross-sell products shown on the More Info Pages, then you will need to add that to your custom templates.

To add Cross Sell products to More Info Pages see:
http://www.shopsite.com/templates/cookbook/product17-productcrosssell.shtml

To add Cross Sell products to the shopping cart see:
http://www.shopsite.com/templates/cookbook/cart12-productcrosssell.shtml

-Loren