Storing Problem!

doosti · December 1st, 2004, 10:49 AM

I want to use a cookie in my project...suppose my visitor selects an item and added to the cart...now he/she continues shopping after adding one item...now he/she selects second item which he wants to buy and adds to the cart...but i want to add the products first in a cookie and then to database also for back up or vice versa...
The problem i m having is that how to add two items in a same cookie..my code follows..
<%
    pname=Request.Form("name")
    pdesc=Request.Form("pdesc")
    price=Request.Form("price")
    picture=Request.Form("picture")
    pieces=Request.Form("pieces")
    uid=session.sessionID

response.write(pieces)
response.write(pname)
response.write(pdesc)
response.write(price)
response.write(picture)
response.write(uid)

inserting in the cookie
response.cookies("cart")("name")=Request.Form("nam e")
response.cookies("cart")("price")=Request.Form("pr ice")
response.cookies("cart")("pdesc")=Request.Form("pd esc")
response.cookies("cart")("picture")=Request.Form(" picture")
response.cookies("cart")("pieces")=Request.Form("p ieces")

Response.write("inserted in the cookie")

for each cookiekey in request.cookies("cart")
response.write(cart) & " ."
response.write(cookiekey) & " ="
response.write(request.cookies("cart")(cookiekey))
next
%>

It only shows the last item added to the database or in cookie...the thing is it overwrites to the previous entries in the cookie....

Will anyone plz help me out in this..it will be highly appreciated!

Farzan Q.
BS(TeleCommunication)
Iqra University.

happygv · December 2nd, 2004, 01:50 AM

Hi Farzan,

Thanks for your Personal Message.

You got to check if the cookie already has any value in it. If so use a COMMA as separator and append the next item to it. While retrieving you may split that using COMMA separator and process it.

Or if you could have another Cookie called ItemNumber, which would be incremented everytime the user tries to add another item to the cart, you may use the ItemNumber along with the cookie to store that in different cookie variables.

When the first Item is added, it may read as

Code:

response.cookies("cart")("name" & ItemNumber)=Request.Form("name")
response.cookies("cart")("price" & ItemNumber)=Request.Form("price")
response.cookies("cart")("pdesc" & ItemNumber)=Request.Form("pdesc")
response.cookies("cart")("picture" & ItemNumber)=Request.Form("picture")
response.cookies("cart")("pieces" & ItemNumber)=Request.Form("pieces")

Response.write("inserted in the cookie")

for each cookiekey in request.cookies("cart")
    response.write(cart) & " ."
    response.write(cookiekey) & " ="
    response.write(request.cookies("cart")(cookiekey))
next

You may try either options whichever you are comfortable with.

Cheers!

_________________________
- Vijay G
Strive for Perfection

doosti · December 2nd, 2004, 04:04 PM

Hey Mr. Vijay,

Thanx accepted. But i msgd you bcoz i really belv in ur skills. I was sure you will help me out using your xperience. You did it again :) Actually you helped me in my previous problems too. Really you your solutions worked for me!

Thanx once again for helping me. Atleast i got an idea after reading ur reply. i will try to do it with the ItemNumber. It seems to me that it will work....but i m not sure that will i be able to implement it successfully or not...i will be needing your help..

Thanx once again!

Farzan Q.
BS(TeleCommunication)
Iqra University.

happygv · December 5th, 2004, 10:18 PM

Sure, you are always welcome to post here if you face any problem in proceeding with it.

We are here to help to the best we could.

Cheers!

_________________________
- Vijay G
Strive for Perfection