[PHP] Shopping Cart Schema - Sessions

2001-01-10 Thread Jason Beebe
Hey, I'm looking for little information from those who have coded their own shopping cart apps. what would you say the best way to setup a cart would be? more specificly, the method for adding items to the cart. say the user is broswing around. when they entered the website a new session was

Re: [PHP] Shopping Cart Schema - Sessions

2001-01-10 Thread Teodor Cimpoesu
Hi Jason! On Wed, 10 Jan 2001, Jason Beebe wrote: > Hey, > > I'm looking for little information from those who have coded their own shopping cart >apps. what would you say the best way to setup a cart would be? more specificly, the >method for adding items to the cart. > eww, lost wrapping .

Re: [PHP] Shopping Cart Schema - Sessions

2001-01-10 Thread Paul K Egell-Johnsen
Jason Beebe wrote: > > Hey, > > I'm looking for little information from those who have coded their own shopping cart >apps. what would you say the best way to setup a cart would be? more specificly, the >method for adding items to the cart. > > say the user is broswing around. when they enter

Re: [PHP] Shopping Cart Schema - Sessions

2001-01-10 Thread JB
ok, this all looks good, but then I again I am having a problem figuring out that code you wrote below. the code i'm attempting to write isn't going to be complex. there's maybe 10 or 15 items going to be sold. it would be very rare if the customer ever had 1 or 2 things in their basket, let alone

Re: [PHP] Shopping Cart Schema - Sessions

2001-01-10 Thread JB
I also forgot to mention. I am leaning towards using GET to send the session ids. Many people have told me that customer penatration decreases, some times significantly, when requiring cookies to use the cart. How would this have an effect on my script? i will have to call the sessid in all of my

Re: [PHP] Shopping Cart Schema - Sessions

2001-01-10 Thread Teodor Cimpoesu
Hi JB! On Wed, 10 Jan 2001, JB wrote: > ok, this all looks good, but then I again I am having a problem figuring out > that code you wrote below. the code i'm attempting to write isn't going to > be complex. there's maybe 10 or 15 items going to be sold. it would be very > rare if the customer ev

Re: [PHP] Shopping Cart Schema - Sessions

2001-01-11 Thread Paul K Egell-Johnsen
JB wrote: > > I also forgot to mention. I am leaning towards using GET to send the session > ids. Many people have told me that customer penatration decreases, some Which people? What facts do they have to support their claims? Is this a bigger problem than distrust in credit card security? Is i

Re: [PHP] Shopping Cart Schema - Sessions

2001-01-11 Thread Alexander Wagner
Paul K Egell-Johnsen wrote: > When in doubt, follow the stream... Check out this, Amazon uses cookies, > Amazon does a lot of business. Do you really feel that Amazon misses out > on a lot of customers? Do you know of any large websites doing shopping > carts which doesn't rely on cookies? I don'

Re: [PHP] Shopping Cart Schema - Sessions

2001-01-11 Thread Michael Kimsal
Paul K Egell-Johnsen wrote: > JB wrote: > > > > I also forgot to mention. I am leaning towards using GET to send the session > > ids. Many people have told me that customer penatration decreases, some > > Which people? What facts do they have to support their claims? Is this a > bigger problem

Re: [PHP] Shopping Cart Schema - Sessions

2001-01-11 Thread Paul K Egell-Johnsen
Alexander Wagner wrote: > > Paul K Egell-Johnsen wrote: > > When in doubt, follow the stream... Check out this, Amazon uses cookies, > > Amazon does a lot of business. Do you really feel that Amazon misses out > > on a lot of customers? Do you know of any large websites doing shopping > > carts w

Re: [PHP] Shopping Cart Schema - Sessions

2001-01-11 Thread Paul K Egell-Johnsen
JB wrote: > > I also forgot to mention. I am leaning towards using GET to send the session > ids. Many people have told me that customer penatration decreases, some > times significantly, when requiring cookies to use the cart. How would this > have an effect on my script? i will have to call the

Re: [PHP] Shopping Cart Schema - Sessions

2001-01-11 Thread Alexander Wagner
Paul K Egell-Johnsen wrote: > What really irked me is that you've received advice about market > penetration of shops. Based on my experience it is only geeks/OSS people > who have any problem with cookies, and at the same time those are the > people who are experts and then deal out advice about

Re: [PHP] Shopping Cart Schema - Sessions

2001-01-11 Thread Paul K Egell-Johnsen
Alexander Wagner wrote: > But did you know that for reasons of privacy it is officialy it is not > allowed to set a cookie without asking in germany? (no one cares or even > tries to enforce it, but thats not the point) No, I didn't. I can see why, especially with the sneaky doubleclick stuff (i

Re: [PHP] Shopping Cart Schema - Sessions

2001-01-11 Thread Michael Kimsal
Paul K Egell-Johnsen wrote: > Alexander Wagner wrote: > > > But did you know that for reasons of privacy it is officialy it is not > > allowed to set a cookie without asking in germany? (no one cares or even > > tries to enforce it, but thats not the point) Why don't they make it illegal to ru

Re: [PHP] Shopping Cart Schema - Sessions

2001-01-12 Thread Teodor Cimpoesu
Hi Alexander! On Thu, 11 Jan 2001, Alexander Wagner wrote: > Paul K Egell-Johnsen wrote: > > When in doubt, follow the stream... Check out this, Amazon uses cookies, > > Amazon does a lot of business. Do you really feel that Amazon misses out > > on a lot of customers? Do you know of any large we