Hi,
File overflow occur on live application? What error message to recognize and to prevent? Session are stored as cookies on client side is good. But if mass majority has cookies turn off or digg effect on server side (too much cookies), how does my internet provider server allocate file storage to overcome need for more file space?
Aware application will try to store cookies on client side, and then server side . Also, aware of unset and destroy session to prevent file overflow. Every user item entry is about 800 bytes and each user decides to make a lot of item entries with no check-out, u see the problem on the server. No, multiply user by thousands fold and I hope u appreciated resource are limited? If users are checking out or logging out, destroy session will save file storage space. But if not, what techniques available to me? What to do with user online session but no data entry for 5, 10, x minutes?
How do u handle in your shopping cart design? Using a flat or rdbm file instead of session would make any difference? From my research, session recommended to track user entries, surfing among various pages, and opening multiple browsers.
Side question: What info do I need to keep of purchaser using paypal? Email sufficient? Paypal provides an interface to handle purchaser processing and they seem to ask for email of that registered paypal users. Paypal interface use https (ssl) and I know that protocol is safer. Go https, what do I need on offline development system with window, xampp - apache, sql, php on. What your view for purchase to be cleared by paypal and purchaser bank account before sending item (2 weeks before sending)? Items sent to friends of purchaser (ie, delivery address is not the same as reqistered paypal user address).
Tx for clearing some nagging question in the back of my mind while developing as a newbie.
