Thank you for all the advice. I looked through free scripts and I found most of them too sophisticated for what I need. The site I'm working on will only collect orders and email them - then someone will call the customer, verify and process the order (they do not want to do credit cards over the phone yet).
The problems I have before sitting down and getting to scripting: 1. how do shopping carts work - how do they keep track of the customer and where do they store ordered items 2. how do they call all the ordered items upon the checkout? I know I could create a db, but are there other simpler solutions? I was thinking of placing a cookie named "random_number" and create file with the same name. Upon checkout (or during adding new items to the cart) I will check the cookie for the number and call the same file. I know it's not a pretty solution because there could be an instance where 2 people get the same random name for the cookie but the probability is very small. thanks, Mariusz
