Shopping Cart updating quantities! Pls Help

[Fori]

Hi all

I'm doing a shopping cart, kind of! and i've done everything until the order level. but since quantities can be changed on the order i have an update button! the probelm is that i have no idea how i'm going to loop through each item and updating!

i have a text box named fldQty and a hidden field having the order id!

Thanks
Nick

 

[vbkris]

how are u saving the data? ie the special characters etc used. and why not use sessions?

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[Fori]

What do you mean how i'm saving the data?

i'm saving in a temporary table and the following is saved:

temp_id
temp_SessionID
temp_inventoryid
temp_clientId
temp_quantity
temp_price

How should i use sessions in this case!?

Thanks
Nick

 

[sleipnir214]

This sounds to me like a good application of session variables.

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[sipps]

You need to set up a session array, and use this to store all your data in until the customer confirms the order and it is written to the database. This way, you can manage the order more efficiently.

When the customer presses the "update cart" button, it looks through the quantity boxes and updates the array according to the Product_ID and Quantity.

 

[sleipnir214]

Keep in mind, too, that you don't just have to use PHP basic variable types in session variables. You can store objects in sessions, too.

The only gotcha is that the class of which the object is an instantiation must be defined in the script before session_start() is invoked.

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