RE: [PHP] how to determine if shopping cart has been abandoned?

Justin French <mailto:justin@indent.com.au> on Thursday, December 04, 2003 2:20 PM said: > If you owned a grocery store, you'd have to decide how long you'd > leave an abandoned cart in isle 3 -- 5 minutes? a week? This is > entirely a decision up to you and your client. <slaps_forehead/> ;) > If you have 1000's of > orders every hour, obviously storing every abandoned cart for a year > is not an option. Why couldn't it just be a configurable option in > the app? That is an excellent idea and one that I hadn't thought of. > I personally would trash the cart with the session (sessions are > cleaned up by PHP automatically), but let the logged in user auto-save > or manually-save the cart for a later date. Yeah the session files are cleaned up automatically but your application doesn't know that. You'd have to specifically tell your application (via a cron job??) when the session get cleaned up and that it (the application) should remove all the old carts. Is there something I don't know about (very possible!)? I mean, even if the users session file is deleted, how do you tell the app. to follow suit and delete it's ASIDE from setting a cron job? Chris. -- Don't like reformatting your Outlook replies? Now there's relief! http://home.in.tum.de/~jain/software/outlook-quotefix/