[thelist] asp carts and sessions
Simon Hibbard
shibbard at seri.co.uk
Thu May 16 03:19:00 CDT 2002
Hi all,
I have started building an ASP shoppping cart system and have
a couple of questions.
After reading around I have concluded that the 'best' way
of storing my users cart data is to use sessions to track a
user and to store the session data in the database.
1 So the user looks around, adds something to cart
2 session is created and stored in db by session id
3 as user adds stuff data stored in db
4 user goes to checkout - orders, session data removed from db
okay, questions are:
1.By creating a session, does this give you a unique id to use
or do i have to call a function or something to generate one?
2.If the user never actually checks out, how can i remove
the data from the db as this could build up after some time?
(i cannnot access the server schedular to run a script each day
to remove the data, which is what i would do)
I would apprectiate any feedback on these both my implementation
summary and the questions.
Thanks people,
Simon.
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