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Feb 08.2007

Which one of these is best for shopping cart?
1. Using session for shopping cart.
2. Storing items in the DB and delete them on completion of purchase.
3. Using array to hold the values. Although, I have not done this before in PHP but it works with COLDFUSION.

I will like a discussion on this. Thanks.

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@PineSolPirateFeb 08.2007 — Session and DB are essentially the same there. Session just stores stuff automatically on the server, and DB is a manual thing. I'd go with sessions myself, though if you want them to be able to come back after a session cookie would have expired you could go DB and set a longer cookie, or I believe you can lengthen the session cookie too.

If they have to log in to shop, may as well use the DB.
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