Re: how to determine if shopping cart has been abandoned?

From: Date: Fri, 05 Dec 2003 01:09:38 +0000
Subject: Re: how to determine if shopping cart has been abandoned?
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Of course, now you have to deal with putting inventory back on the shelf when the session expires....and you have no way of knowing when that would happen unless you're storing *something*. Chris W. Parker wrote:
Justin French <mailto:justin@indent.com.au> 
    on Thursday, December 04, 2003 2:48 PM said:
Rather than storing the shopping cart in a DB, store the cart in the session. When the session dies, so does the cart. When/if they choose to save it, it THEN gets ported into a database.
Aaahhhhh...! This makes sense. Thanks, Chris. -- Don't like reformatting your Outlook replies? Now there's relief! http://home.in.tum.de/~jain/software/outlook-quotefix/


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