Hi folks
another cookie question following on from the last.  If the cookie is written in the form 
  Response.Cookies("shoppingCart")("ItemNumber")
what is the best way to give each item on the list a unique number, would you give the first item the number 1 and then do a kind of
Select max(itemNumber) like in SQL and use max(itemNumber)+1 type of syntax to increment each item number as it is added or would it
be handier to just use date hours, minutes and seconds to uniquely identify each item.

Kind Regards
Oliver Dempsey

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Why use item numbers at all?

If you were storing this in a database, what would you use distinguish
between records? Maybe some kind of ProductID? or the ProductName? or
similar? Why not use that as the key of your cookie?

Cheers
Ken

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From: <odempsey@b...>
Subject: [asp_web_howto] another cookie question


: another cookie question following on from the last.  If the cookie
: is written in the form  Response.Cookies("shoppingCart")("ItemNumber")
: what is the best way to give each item on the list a unique number, would
: you give the first item the number 1 and then do a kind of Select
max(itemNumber)
: like in SQL and use max(itemNumber)+1 type of syntax to increment each
item
: number as it is added or would it be handier to just use date hours,
minutes
: and seconds to uniquely identify each item.
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Well the products are website templates and the only thing that can distinguish one website from
another is the domain name.  For example the details could be as follows: - mysite.com, 5 page,
template1, blue, search option  or it could be mysite2.com, 10 page, template 6, green, no search
option.

Maybe I've answered my own question here, the domain name is probably what I should use to
distinguish
between records.


Kind Regards
Oliver Dempsey
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----- Original Message -----
From: "Ken Schaefer" <ken@a...>
To: "ASP Web HowTo" <asp_web_howto@p...>
Sent: Thursday, October 17, 2002 3:03 AM
Subject: [asp_web_howto] Re: another cookie question


> Why use item numbers at all?
>
> If you were storing this in a database, what would you use distinguish
> between records? Maybe some kind of ProductID? or the ProductName? or
> similar? Why not use that as the key of your cookie?
>
> Cheers
> Ken
>
> ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
> From: <odempsey@b...>
> Subject: [asp_web_howto] another cookie question
>
>
> : another cookie question following on from the last.  If the cookie
> : is written in the form  Response.Cookies("shoppingCart")("ItemNumber")
> : what is the best way to give each item on the list a unique number, would
> : you give the first item the number 1 and then do a kind of Select
> max(itemNumber)
> : like in SQL and use max(itemNumber)+1 type of syntax to increment each
> item
> : number as it is added or would it be handier to just use date hours,
> minutes
> : and seconds to uniquely identify each item.
> ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
>
>
>
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