[thelist] ASP: Shopping Cart Theory

[Max Wyss]

In my PDF-based shopping cart, I store the added items in either
document level or global variables (depending on whether I stay
within a single document, or whether I work with mulitple documents).
In order to span sessions, I use persistent global variables.

That whole thing translated to HTML-speak: I am using the equivalent
to cookies, created and used only client-side.

Hope, this can help.


Max Wyss
PRODOK Engineering
Low Paper workflows, Smart documents, PDF forms
CH-8906 Bonstetten, Switzerland

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>What's the general theory as to the best way to store items added to a
>shopping cart? Cookies? Session variables? Something else?
>