How to Persistent Shopping Carts ??

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Hi

Q:-

Shopping Carts lose their values when the browser closes . Items added to the

shopping cart need to be persisted across multiple browsing sessions.

How we can achieve this??

Hint :-
After studying the include/cart.asp, cart items are being stored in Session variables which is
clearing the cart upon closing of the session. Update the AddToCart() and DropFromCart()
methods in cart.asp to persist the cart items to a cookie along with the session. Also update
Global.asa to look for the cookie and repopulate the Session object upon start of the session.
This should still allow the site to function as normal but allow the cart items to be maintained
across browser sessions. If possible, tie the cookie to a user so that multiple people using a
computer still have unique carts.

Pls guide , suggest , recommend ……

-Vin

Migrateduser

Vin-

What we have done in the past is to write the list of asset ids (which is how the cart information is stored) to a file or to a database table when the session variable is updated.

Then, whenever the cart is updated, by adding or removing assets, write the new list to the file/database. And then in default.asp (or main.asp) read in the cart contents into the session variable. From this point on, the session variable should be the master list. You can read the file/database every time if you want to get rid of the session variable, but I’m not sure what the performance hit would be.

Use the user SID or logon id to key the file/records and that way you have a persistent cart no matter which computer you use to log into the site (like user preferences).

Matt
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Rapid Software Solutions, LLC