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Grace Kelly
33,990 PointsShopping Cart - Store Data in Session or Database?
hey guys i'm making an e-commerce site using php and mysql and i want to know how i should proceed when it comes to the shopping cart. I want to have it in such a way that if the user is logged in and they add items to the cart and then logout, the items will stay in the cart for when they log back in again....will a session suffice for this or do i need to create a table and store this data inside it??
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Jacie Fortune
8,969 PointsYou need to use a database. When the user logs out the session is lost, so you will lose the cart contents.
shawn stokes
5,651 Pointsit would be best to store it in db if you are not using a 3rd party shopping cart.