Hi everybody,



Is there anyone out there who could help me to write

a program for a simple shopping cart?

It would be nice if u could give me some general directions.

I would prefer to write the prg.on my own!But someone

please tell me how do i start.



Any help will be greatly appreciated.

Thanks :-),

Beena.

you could work with a sessionarray. start with defining the array with which

you want to shop...

the sessionarray  has the same characteristics as your array you are to

define!

see to it that the array can contain all the necessary data you will need to

process your order..as there are: productid, typeid,quatnity, order or

offer, etc...

you add something to the basket, so you put it in the array and afterwards

you equal to the sessionarray to store the values into the session

variable...

deleting and adding quantity is roughly the same.

by processing the complete order, write it to the database together with

ordernr ( in ordersdatabase with order delivery info)

and orderitems to the orderitemsdatabase (here together with a ref to the

ordernr)

if everything is written to the database, empty the session variable and you

are through the complete process..

happy programming!





-----Original Message-----

From: Beena Arjunan [mailto:beena.arjunan@u...]

Sent: Tuesday, March 20, 2001 11:19 AM

To: ASP Web HowTo

Subject: [asp_web_howto] How to create a shopping cart?





Hi everybody,



Is there anyone out there who could help me to write

a program for a simple shopping cart?

It would be nice if u could give me some general directions.

I would prefer to write the prg.on my own!But someone

please tell me how do i start.



Any help will be greatly appreciated.

Thanks :-),

Beena.

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Wrox's E-Commerce book has a complete example...



-----Original Message-----

From: Beena Arjunan [mailto:beena.arjunan@u...]

Sent: Tuesday, March 20, 2001 6:19 AM

To: ASP Web HowTo

Subject: [asp_web_howto] How to create a shopping cart?





Hi everybody,



Is there anyone out there who could help me to write

a program for a simple shopping cart?

It would be nice if u could give me some general directions.

I would prefer to write the prg.on my own!But someone

please tell me how do i start.



Any help will be greatly appreciated.

Thanks :-),

Beena.

my 2 cents.... look at _beginning e-Commerce_ by Matthew Reynolds (Wrox) it

is pretty good. and I like the approach he takes. but one consideration, he

uses COM, so if you can use custom components on the server, you can still

re-write all the com components in the actual vb code, I have done it. he

covers everything from the db design, to marketing the site.



Daniel



-----Original Message-----

From: Eric Van Camp [mailto:eric@a...]

Sent: Tuesday, March 20, 2001 9:17 AM

To: ASP Web HowTo

Subject: [asp_web_howto] RE: How to create a shopping cart?





you could work with a sessionarray. start with defining the array with which

you want to shop...

the sessionarray  has the same characteristics as your array you are to

define!

see to it that the array can contain all the necessary data you will need to

process your order..as there are: productid, typeid,quatnity, order or

offer, etc...

you add something to the basket, so you put it in the array and afterwards

you equal to the sessionarray to store the values into the session

variable...

deleting and adding quantity is roughly the same.

by processing the complete order, write it to the database together with

ordernr ( in ordersdatabase with order delivery info)

and orderitems to the orderitemsdatabase (here together with a ref to the

ordernr)

if everything is written to the database, empty the session variable and you

are through the complete process..

happy programming!





-----Original Message-----

From: Beena Arjunan [mailto:beena.arjunan@u...]

Sent: Tuesday, March 20, 2001 11:19 AM

To: ASP Web HowTo

Subject: [asp_web_howto] How to create a shopping cart?





Hi everybody,



Is there anyone out there who could help me to write

a program for a simple shopping cart?

It would be nice if u could give me some general directions.

I would prefer to write the prg.on my own!But someone

please tell me how do i start.



Any help will be greatly appreciated.

Thanks :-),

Beena.

Try the following:



http://www.asp101.com/samples/shopping.asp



Very simple and easy to understand. You'll have to work through the code a

bit.



HTH

John



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From: "Shaun Steckley" <SSTECKLEY@P...>

To: "ASP Web HowTo" <asp_web_howto@p...>

Sent: Tuesday, March 20, 2001 1:50 PM

Subject: [asp_web_howto] RE: How to create a shopping cart?





> Wrox's E-Commerce book has a complete example...

>

> -----Original Message-----

> From: Beena Arjunan [mailto:beena.arjunan@u...]

> Sent: Tuesday, March 20, 2001 6:19 AM

> To: ASP Web HowTo

> Subject: [asp_web_howto] How to create a shopping cart?

>

>

> Hi everybody,

>

> Is there anyone out there who could help me to write

> a program for a simple shopping cart?

> It would be nice if u could give me some general directions.

> I would prefer to write the prg.on my own!But someone

> please tell me how do i start.

>

> Any help will be greatly appreciated.

> Thanks :-),

> Beena.

>

> ---

> SoftArtisans helps developers build robust, scalable Web applications!

> Excel Web reports, charts: http://www.softartisans.com/excelwriter.html

> File uploads: http://www.softartisans.com/saf.html

> Transactional file management: http://www.softartisans.com/saf1.html

> Scalability: http://www.softartisans.com/saxsession.html

> ASPstudio value pack: http://www.softartisans.com/aspstudiosuite.html




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>

>

Hello I'm sure you got a lot of good suggestions already but I also wanted 

to suggest this one book regarding Asp databases that helps a lot with 

shopping carts.  It  does not have a shopping cart example but gives a 

good foundation for interacting with databases.  (Beginning ASP Database 

By John Kauffman) 



-Rohith





>From: "Beena Arjunan" 

>Reply-To: "ASP Web HowTo" 

>To: "ASP Web HowTo" 

>Subject: [asp_web_howto] How to create a shopping cart? 

>Date: Tue, 20 Mar 2001 11:19:23 

> 

>Hi everybody, 

> 

>Is there anyone out there who could help me to write 

>a program for a simple shopping cart? 

>It would be nice if u could give me some general directions. 

>I would prefer to write the prg.on my own!But someone 

>please tell me how do i start. 

> 

>Any help will be greatly appreciated. 

>Thanks :-), 

>Beena.