[FX.php List] Shopping Carts - Keep in SessionVars or Add Records right away?

[Head Honcho]

Hi Jonathan,


On 29/07/2009, at 3:00 PM, Jonathan Schwartz wrote:

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> At 2:22 PM +1000 7/29/09, Head Honcho wrote:
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> Hi Michael,
>
> Agreed on the technical effort between the two methods. Lets call  
> them even.
>
> My suggestion that this was partly a business decision has to do  
> with whether or not the client wants the benefits of saving the  
> unfinished orders and then offering an enhanced online system that  
> allows customers to resume unfinished orders, as was suggested.
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> If the client doesn't have an interest in unfinished orders, then  
> either method will do. On the other hand, if the client DOES want to  
> interact with unfinished orders, the technical decision is made: you  
> need to save orders in the DB as you go. Otherwise, they are gone  
> when the session ends.
>

Excellently put!

Regards

Michael Ward
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