How do I pack a list inside a string so that I can send it as a param in live_redirect?

[derek-zhou]

@annad

Let’s use the example of a typical shopping cart. A user goes to an online store and starts shopping without logging in. They add things to the cart and then click “checkout” which requires them to log in. All of the items in the cart have to be saved so that they are still in the cart after login.

@kokolegorille already mentioned the conventional method. My method is unconventional but if you are not happy with the conventional method you can try this:

• before the first liveview redirect the user to login form, store everything you want to carry over to the client side, by push_event them over.
• login, etc
• after the user landed in the second liveview post-auth, grab everything back from the client side.

You do not need cookie, session, query string, etc to make it work. heck, you don’t even need a database for this.