I had not even thought of that, and that would be much better than the method I was using.
And yes I was thinking of forcing login's so I could store their cart in the DB but restrict the admin panel from normal users so ACL was a possibility but since it was a website that I had sort of two days to make, setting up ACL sounded like it was too much. On Apr 7, 9:33 pm, cricket <zijn.digi...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Thu, Apr 7, 2011 at 5:03 PM, Chris <theswimmingf...@gmail.com> wrote: > > I was trying to do this for a website I wanted to get done quickly. > > Because I didn't want to go through the whole ACL setup I just wanted > > to make any user that went to the website able to buy things stored in > > a session(or cookie but I'm not sure how to do that in cake either). > > Sessions and cookies are interrelated. When you write to the session, > a cookie is also created. On the next request, the cookie is read. > This is how one maintains state between requests. > > I don't think you should be considering ACL for something like that, > anyway. Not unless your buyers must be logged in first, and certain > buyers cannot buy certain products, or something like that. Otherwise, > a shopping cart shouldn't require that users are logged in. > > > The data would need to hold an array of model Photo. > > Why not just save the id? When it comes time to check out, read the > ids from the cart and fetch the releavant photos. -- Our newest site for the community: CakePHP Video Tutorials http://tv.cakephp.org Check out the new CakePHP Questions site http://ask.cakephp.org and help others with their CakePHP related questions. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to cake-php+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/cake-php
