Re: Lazy Registration

2010-01-25 Thread Matt Woolnough
The answer doesn't need to be pylons specific. I just happen to be using this framework, so this group seemed like a good place to start. I'm looking to store info thats a bit more complex than just a item number, so I'm considering storing temporary items created in guest sessions in a table

Re: Lazy Registration

2010-01-25 Thread Wichert Akkerman
On 1/25/10 09:57 , Matt Woolnough wrote: The answer doesn't need to be pylons specific. I just happen to be using this framework, so this group seemed like a good place to start. I'm looking to store info thats a bit more complex than just a item number, so I'm considering storing temporary

Re: Lazy Registration

2010-01-25 Thread Jonathan Vanasco
On Jan 25, 4:36 am, Wichert Akkerman wich...@wiggy.net wrote: Beaker sessions. either beaker sessions, or just use a beaker session id as the shopping cart / user id you could do a dbtable that has this: table: cart id bigserial primary key not null, session_id char(32) unique ,

Re: Lazy Registration

2010-01-25 Thread DD
I use beaker sessions for something similar. Basically, i have sqlite based session (so its there if my server restarts), and I serialize the entire shopping cart object into the session. Once a user logs in, the session object is converted to a 'real' shopping cart which, in my case, is

Re: Lazy Registration

2010-01-25 Thread Matt Woolnough
Thanks guys for your input. I found a couple of threads on stackoverflow on similar questions: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1969711/best-way-to-place-temporary-data-for-an-webapp http://stackoverflow.com/questions/964476/store-in-session-data-vs-store-in-sql-database-for-temporary-data