shopping cart brainstorm
Posted: Wed Nov 09, 2005 5:12 pm
ok so i MIGHT have this really huge contract to make a shopping cart for a wine company that wants to sell wines from france to estonia. the payment system is worked out already, the estonian banks are very good at that. what i need is some ideas on how to do it. things i want to try to avoid
-javascript
-cluttered windows
-more than 1 window
is this possible do you think? also i was thinking about saving the shopping cart. what i did looong time ago was if there was no cookie take the persons session id and save that as a cookie then store the cart under that id. you might be able to guess where there would be problems with that idea. what would be a better way? i am probably not going to "restore" the shopping cart on each return and just have a link to "restore cart" if there is a cookie set but how do i track different users. i need somthing that will work 99.99999% of the time.
also any really cool things you have seen in a cart that you wanna tell me about so i can maybe use the idea? any really uncool things that made you mad? any carts that have a really good example that i could go by? i wanna have a really good idea of what i wanna do before i get the contract so i can start work right away and be rich that much faster. hopefully i do get this job, i could sure go for some cheaper french wine *drinks another glass, literally*
-javascript
-cluttered windows
-more than 1 window
is this possible do you think? also i was thinking about saving the shopping cart. what i did looong time ago was if there was no cookie take the persons session id and save that as a cookie then store the cart under that id. you might be able to guess where there would be problems with that idea. what would be a better way? i am probably not going to "restore" the shopping cart on each return and just have a link to "restore cart" if there is a cookie set but how do i track different users. i need somthing that will work 99.99999% of the time.
also any really cool things you have seen in a cart that you wanna tell me about so i can maybe use the idea? any really uncool things that made you mad? any carts that have a really good example that i could go by? i wanna have a really good idea of what i wanna do before i get the contract so i can start work right away and be rich that much faster. hopefully i do get this job, i could sure go for some cheaper french wine *drinks another glass, literally*