Re: Suggestions on storing shopping cart info

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Would using a generic list (of these objects) be the best way to handle this
in your opinion? Store that to a session var?

"Mark Rae [MVP]" <mark@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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As the shopper adds things to the cart and navigates throught the site to
shop more, should I store this info in a session var?

That would work. Alternatively, if you want the customer to be able to
save the cart and come back to it later, you should save it to a
database...

Should I create another class for cart and store an array of product_info
to keep track of what's in the cart, etc...?

That's what I do, though I tend to use a generic e.g. Dictionary<int, int>
to store the ID of the purchased product along with the number of items
purchased...


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