[RESOLVED] PHP Shopping Cart process login procedure

ade234uk

Just need your advice. I have built a very basic cart. The user add products to the cart.

The cart is displayed by querying the users session id against the session id in the cart which displays the current products in the cart. This part I understand.

After this point the user either continues shopping or places the order.
Now this is part I am stumped on.

If a user already has an account they login and a session is created, the user is redirected after login which auto fills the form before confirming.

If a user does not have an account they fill in the form directly.

However how do I pair up the user with the cart to complete the order. How did you work this with your own cart?

Many Thanks

leatherback

The user stays the same person & same user. So the same way you track your cart in a session, you can track the data when the user submits the form; You keep the same session alive.

ade234uk

leatherback;10985710 wrote:
The user stays the same person & same user. So the same way you track your cart in a session, you can track the data when the user submits the form; You keep the same session alive.

Thank you for information. Puts in more in to perspective for me. The easy part is the cart,

Getting the user info, if they are a new user or login to an existing account, that's the hard part and transferring everything from the cart to a new table called orders and associating the user with that order that's the part I have trouble getting my head around.

My Cart Table is set out as follows
cart_id | product_id | product_name | qty | basket_session_id

ade234uk

I understand it now. Its just a case of transferring the user_id in to the orders table with the items taken from the cart. Then at this point the basket session id can be removed.