Thanks for the feedback Adam...
> As to storing their selections. Seriously consider storing
> their current selection in a DB, storing an id in a cookie. So that
should they be
> building an order over time, this information isn't lost should their
> machine crash or something.
You mean, after each page's selections, insert that part of the order
into the database, so that their selections are still "in the cart" if/when
they come agan to continue? Then, once they move on to "checkout",
pull the order parts from the db? Or, I guess, instead of inserting a
separate row
after each page of photos selected is processed, just update the row that
was first
created after they made their first selections on a page...using the cookie
ID you referred
to as a key in the db to match up the current user with their order in the
db?
Only problem I can see with using a cookie is if the user usually placed
orders
from a single machine, got used to the system keeping track of multliple
"ordering sessions",
then decided one day to go over to a friend's house in the middle of placing
an order,
and tried to continue from there...they would find their previous selections
unaccessible
because the cookie wouldn't exist on the machine at their friend's house...
I see pros and cons to using the cookie to enable "multiple session" order
placement...
If they had to login, that problem would be solved, but we don't want to
require people to login...
I haven't placed content in cookies before (other than what the system does
for session management)...
What type of ID would be good for storing in the cookie?
Also, searching by category, event, and keyword are part of the plans
for the "shopping" experience. There would probably be only about 100
photos
of a typical event, such as a football game...so looking through all the
photos,
especially when they are photos of the person looking through them, wouldn't
be too much of a hassle and time-consuming...
Rick
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Adam Reynolds [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Sent: Monday, September 15, 2003 4:16 AM
> To: CF-Talk
> Subject: RE: Best Approach to Storing Selections...
>
>
> If you put a picture up, just make sure it has a watermark
> all over it. If
> you don't they will find a way of getting to the picture.
>
> As to storing their selections. Seriously consider storing
> their current
> selection in a DB, storing an id in a cookie. So that should they be
> building an order over time, this information isn't lost should their
> machine crash or something.
>
> Also assume some MOST people want to shop by searching the
> description of
> each photo (i.e. they only want pictures of one particular
> player/team/car/animal/pvc/mud wrestling etc ;) ).
>
> If I came to your site and wanted a picture, I do not want
> to look through
> 1000s of pictures 25 at a time.
>
> I would also like to browse by event (navigating through
> sport types), but
> mostly I would do keyword searches.
>
>
>
>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Jim Davis [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> > Sent: 15 September 2003 05:08
> > To: CF-Talk
> > Subject: RE: Best Approach to Storing Selections...
> >
> >
> > > >>I had planned to use a javascript function to not allow
> > right-clicking
> > > and saving the image...
> > >
> > > Forget this: this is just a gadget. It will only prevent
> people from
> > > copying the image who
> > > would be too dumb to print it anyway.
> > > You don't need to come from Harvard to know how to get
> an image from
> > the
> > > cache,
> > > or get its address directly from the source page, or
> even just capture
> > the
> > > image on the screen.
> >
> > Or just turn off JavaScript. ;^)
> >
> > Jim Davis
> >
> >
> >
> >
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