Viewing a customer's wishlist
 

Currently, in order for someone to view a customer's wish list, they would have had to received an email from the wishlist holder. The wishlist email contains the wishlist id that the person has to enter in order to view the wishlist.

What I want to figure out, with the help of you guys, is how xcart generates the wishlist ID. I want to be able to convert the id into the wishlist maker's username so that when other people want to view the wishlist, they can just enter the username instead of wlid=di890eu0fdaz, the former is really much more user friendly.

Ok, I still haven't figured out how exactly xcart creates the wishlist id but I found out that the id is a session id stored in the sessions table in your database.

I've thought of 2 possible solutions to make it easier for customers to find each other's wishlists, if anyone has any input please share your ideas:

1. We can try to make a variable entered by the customer equal the session id.
For example this is the url needed to access the wishlist=

https://www.domain.com/cart.php?mode=friend_wl&wlid=0e1e55140213adf72asd1 e5ad021a04

What I was thinking of doing was having a form where the customer can enter a variable like a username (Hunter920) and then xcart would recoginze the username as the session id (if defined in a php file) and then present the wishlist.

or

2. We create a wishlist search, similar to the regular product search. Except the search would only search the mode=friend_wl files. Just as the product search has things like product title,etc that triggers the search, the wishlist search could have the persons name that would trigger and present the wishlist.

Feedback is much appreciated. Thanks

There is a gift registry add-on that's meant to do all of this I believe. Not sure if that's what you are looking for.

Carrie

does X-Giftregistry integrate with the wishlist?

I don't think so, I think it's a separate entity.

This can describe it better than me:

http://www.x-cart.com/gift_registry.html

Carrie