wddx structs in a cookie - big no no - will fail as cookies are limited in
size...

What you want to do (as you are using cookies) is turn session management on
in the cfapplication.  Then store you shopping cart in a session structure.
As the top of each page that you need the structure, copy it from the
session to the request scope (using duplicate() ).  Then when you have done
all of your processing simple copy the struct back to the session (using
duplicate() again).  Obviously if you are using anything below cfmx you'll
need to lock your session reads and writes using cflock.

that make sense to you?

HTH

Tom


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Peter Dray" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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Sent: Wednesday, November 26, 2003 11:05 AM
Subject: [ cf-dev ] A little advice...


> I'm doing a simple shopping cart 'thing'. I don't want to store the data
in a db and I do want the data to persist across sessions.
> What I did was...
>
> Each item added to the basket is a structure, as is the basket itself. I
then CFWDDX'd it and bunged it in a cookie.
>
> Good? Bad?
>
> Advice welcome
>
> Pete Dray
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