Where to put code that loads products from cookie?

Question

We have a project which is Sharepoint solution combined with Commerce Server. It's a webshop, and we are currently installing a feature where the products but in the basket is stored using cookies.

We are doing that by adding all the products guids + quantity in a cookie file.

However, where to load the users basket on their next visit?

On a normal asp.net website I would use Global.asax -> Session_start, but as far as I can tell, there are no Global.asax in a Sharepoint solution.

So my question is: Is there any way to react on the session_start event in Sharepoint? Or are there other events/ways which are more appropriate? I am not really much into Sharepoint, so any help is gladly accepted!

Bad way to store all that on cookie. Keep the selection on the database, not on cookie, and connect the cookie with the database. — Aristos, Sep 19 '12 at 12:21
Great point - but we still have to do the load somewhere :-) Any ideas? — Lars Holdgaard, Sep 19 '12 at 13:22

score 0 · Accepted Answer · answered Sep 30 '12 at 10:17

We ended up putting the code in the webpart for the shopping basket. This is a pretty good solution as it exists on every page on the website.

I would prefer putting the code in a HttpModule, but setting that up in Sharepoint is pretty annoying.. Also it is more error prune than just putting the code in the shopping basket.

Where to put code that loads products from cookie?

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