From: Dave Boehm [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Monday, April 08, 2002 10:46 AM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: [CFTALKTor] Maintaining State
We have a client who wants to sell a number of his products on his website. He is using only HTML. We have Coldfusion and an Access database. The question is "How can his clients add different products to a list that he would then send to us where we would take the credit card and shipping information and process the order?". How can he maintain state across calls to multiple pages?
Failing that, he could send us the productid/quantity data each time his clients want to add something to the shopping cart but how would we be able to know which items were to go with which client currently accessing his site. Would he still not have to maintain some sort of state across pages and send us a client id number?
He is suggesting that cgi might work but doesn't know how. I am not familiar with it. Any thoughts and suggestions are gratefully appreciated.
David Boehm
Website & Database Management
Product Ordering On-Line
M&T Printing Group
907 Frederick St. Kitchener, ON Canada
N2B 2B9
(519) 571-0101 Fax (519) 571-0129
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