Shopping cart help needed

Anon

I'm trying to build a shopping cart for an online bookstore. But since I've never done this before I'm having a few problems. I wanna use a cookie to store the quantity and book code of items that are put in the cart (so basically the cookie is my cart).
Then from a list of books the user can set how many they want via drop down menus and with the click of a button I want to put these results into my cart and display an overview. How do I do this?

You know how in shopping carts when you set the quantity to zero and submit that the item is removed? Does anyone know how to implement that? Or can anyone explain it to me? How could that be done along my lines...?

thnx

delpino

since not all browsers allow cookies you should opt for session variables (already built-in in PHP4)...

or look for some shopping cart classes/examples, there should be many around.

doss_

there are some examples in the code section of this site =)

Anon

I'll have a look - thanx

Anon

http://www.devshed.com/Server_Side/PHP/Commerce1/
http://www.devshed.com/Server_Side/PHP/Commerce2/
http://www.devshed.com/Server_Side/PHP/Commerce3/

The last link is about catalogs and shopping Carts
bye bye

nsamaka

Yeah I've read the Devshed E-commerce tutorial (amongst quite a few) and have finally decided on scrapping the cookie idea and going with sessions. Most of the shopping carts out there are packed with functionality that I don't need.

Sessions are turning out to be perfect for what I want and easy to learn. So far so good, thanks for the advice guys 😉

Nash.