RE: [OT] Shopping cart best practices - Cookie, HttpSession or DB

2003-08-22 Thread Brian McSweeney
Thanks for the info Greg, Another good idea :-) I appreciate it, Brian -Original Message- From: Greg Ludington [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 21 August 2003 16:39 To: 'Brian McSweeney'; 'Struts Users Mailing List' Subject: RE: [OT] Shopping cart best practices - Cookie, HttpSession

RE: [OT] Shopping cart best practices - Cookie, HttpSession or DB

2003-08-22 Thread Brian McSweeney
Thanks Adam, Makes sense, Appreciate it, Brian -Original Message- From: Adam Hardy [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 21 August 2003 22:07 To: Struts Users Mailing List Subject: Re: [OT] Shopping cart best practices - Cookie, HttpSession or DB I think the issue of using up server memory

Re: [OT] Shopping cart best practices - Cookie, HttpSession or DB

2003-08-22 Thread Mark Lowe
Storing a few bits and pieces in a session is all storing a cart will do anyway. While I can see why some folks would consider it a clear benefit to save all carts to the db , i don't. But that can be layered on afterwards, especially with handy packages like beanutils. Given that most the

RE: [OT] Shopping cart best practices - Cookie, HttpSession or DB

2003-08-21 Thread Brian McSweeney
Hey Tero, Thanks for the reply. Really appreciate the tips. Brian -Original Message- From: Paananen, Tero [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 20 August 2003 18:36 To: 'Struts Users Mailing List' Subject: RE: [OT] Shopping cart best practices - Cookie, HttpSession or DB The options I

RE: [OT] Shopping cart best practices - Cookie, HttpSession or DB

2003-08-21 Thread Brian McSweeney
Hi Vic, Definitely life would be easier, but I don't think it's as good :-) Thanks though, Brian -Original Message- From: news [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Vic Cekvenich Sent: 21 August 2003 02:30 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [OT] Shopping cart best practices - Cookie

Re: [OT] Shopping cart best practices - Cookie, HttpSession or DB

2003-08-21 Thread Mark Lowe
don't think it's as good :-) Thanks though, Brian -Original Message- From: news [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Vic Cekvenich Sent: 21 August 2003 02:30 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [OT] Shopping cart best practices - Cookie, HttpSession or DB I think you'd make your life

RE: [OT] Shopping cart best practices - Cookie, HttpSession or DB

2003-08-21 Thread Brian McSweeney
:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 21 August 2003 16:02 To: Struts Users Mailing List Subject: Re: [OT] Shopping cart best practices - Cookie, HttpSession or DB I haven't any tech input, but I've an idea how I'd stagger the development.I'd forget about cookies and db's at first, save them for a later stage

RE: [OT] Shopping cart best practices - Cookie, HttpSession or DB

2003-08-21 Thread Greg Ludington
1. Store your cart in session, and when that all works. For everyone. Gets to the checkout and funds are exchanged. While I agree with the previous posters who said that it would make your life easier if you can require login, if you absolutely need to save carts of users regardless of login

Re: [OT] Shopping cart best practices - Cookie, HttpSession or DB

2003-08-21 Thread Adam Hardy
I think the issue of using up server memory with lots of shopping carts in the session is worth thinking about. It's just a question of maths - how much memory have you got, what is the peak number of users envisaged, how much stuff are you going to store in the session? even then I think some

[OT] Shopping cart best practices - Cookie, HttpSession or DB

2003-08-20 Thread Brian McSweeney
Hi all, Quick question. I want to implement a shopping cart. I know this has been done a million times in a million open source projects however I have a few questions, and seeing as everyone in here seems so knowledgeable. What I'd like: 1) User can add to shopping cart without having to

RE: [OT] Shopping cart best practices - Cookie, HttpSession or DB

2003-08-20 Thread Paananen, Tero
The options I have to implement the shopping cart: a) Cookies - satisfies 1 and 2, but assumes user doesn't turn off cookies b) HttpSession object - satisfies 1, but not 2 c) Database shopping cart object - satisfies 2, but not 1. I'd like to know, a)

Re: [OT] Shopping cart best practices - Cookie, HttpSession or DB

2003-08-20 Thread Vic Cekvenich
I think you'd make your life easier if your required login. .V Brian McSweeney wrote: Hi all, Quick question. I want to implement a shopping cart. I know this has been done a million times in a million open source projects however I have a few questions, and seeing as everyone in here seems