How would you approach this?

sgtpepper

I am wondering how you would try to approach the following. Basically, a 'wishlist' type of application. I am displaying real estate. I would like to give the user an opertunity to click on a button that will 'store' the property in a cart/wishlist.

When they are done looking at all proerties, than email the wishlist to the real estate office.

I am a php novice but learning fast.

I first thought about a simple shopping cart approach, but I am afraid I couldnt find anything simple enough.

Can anyone offer some advice on how to implement this? Maybe with some sample code?

DeltaRho2K

You would probably want to create a session, and just add the variables to it as you go along... You could then store the session variables in a cookie or database for later retrieval...

The only trick to the DB storage thing would be if their wishlist had free text in it. If it is a pick list (or series of them), then that wouldn't be so hard to do...

Got more details?

zmok

Just fyi, be careful with cookies, iex has very strict security rules that prevent cookie storage (it's not really fancy to ask a user to enable cookies just because you need it for your site). I would use a MySQL database to store your wishlist in. Just identify the users by their IP and set an expiration time (for those who do not have a static IP).

greetz

DeltaRho2K

I agree with you about the cookies, don't get me wrong. Besides the fact that they may not have their computer setup to accept cookies, but say the decide to clear out their cookies (as I do frequently), then it's all gone. Definitely the DB way to go.