RE: [PHP] creating a shopping cart.

Jay Blanchard <mailto:jay.blanchard@THERMON.com> on Monday, October 03, 2005 5:30 AM said: > A basic flowchart could have helped you to answer your question and > broken down the processes into their componenet parts. Heck, you > don't even need fancy flowcharting software...just write down the > steps. Believe it or not (you who have not actually used a flowchart for planning your code) you really *will* find flaws before you waste time coding. Another thing I've found is that it's not important to get hung up on what-shapes-do-what* in your flowchart. Just start making the chart and revising it as necessary, putting as much detail as you can. Chris. * Except for diamonds being logic gates (e.g. is the value hot or cold? yes/no), hotdogs being beginning and ending markers of a process/function/page, and squares being a process itself (e.g. "add 5 to the variable"). Having those in mind will help you keep things organized. You can later branch out into all the other shapes.