Re: shopping cart and login system

On Jun 14, 2003, "olinux" claimed that: |hi | |--- electroteque <daniel@electroteque.org> wrote: |> hi there , i am about to build a shopping cart which |> will interact with a |> paypal payment system , the cart will use sessions |> to store the items and |> basket information before checking out and posting |> to the paypal form , what |> i'd like to know is would the cart require a login |> system to track users and |> to prevent ppl from making dodgy orders , | |if pure simplicity is a goal, i dont think you need a |login for customers. who cares if they add items and |then dont purchase. obviously they would not be able |to log in again to see the previous orders or current |order status but you could always implement later. Actually, to be more simple, for paypal paying customers, I would use paypal's buy it now buttons. Let them deal with the shopping carts and sessions. http://www.paypal.com/cgi-bin/webscr?cmd=p/xcl/rec/singleitem-intro-outside -- Registered Linux user #304026. "lynx -source http://jharris.rallycentral.us/jharris.asc | gpg --import" Key fingerprint = 52FC 20BD 025A 8C13 5FC6 68C6 9CF9 46C2 B089 0FED Responses to this message should conform to RFC 1855.