Trouble with my cookie values?

[shu745]

Hey everyone, I have a dilema. I want to create an application (like a real-time shopping cart) which shows you a preview what items you have added into it.

Here is the asp page:

http://www16.brinkster.com/shu745/minicart/cook.asp

(it is the bottom-most cookie that appears only)

Here is the associated code:

http://www16.brinkster.com/shu745/minicart/code.txt

The only problem is that when you refresh your browser the cookie value changes also. Is there a way for the cookie to stay the same?

If this were to be a hig-traffic site would it be better to just use session objects instead of cookies? What's the difference really?

Thanks for any help,
Shu

 

[lesleint]

Can not see your code it gives an error from Brinkster.

Session OBjects eat up memory on the server so I would not recommened it for a huge traffic site. Cookies are good as long as the customer has not disabled them. Please fix the Code page so I can help you out sir.

Tom

 

[shu745]

Sorry about that, hopefully this will work:

http://www.geocities.com/shu745/minicart/code.txt

Thanks again for any help.
-Shu

 

[lesleint]

I am taking a look at it right now.

Just thinking about this wouldn't it be easier to setup a Temp db to hold all the contents of a persons cart as they select stuff being that cookies can only hold 4k of data? Just a thought?

 

[lesleint]

You are writing the the cookies on every refresh. Wouldn't you just do an If..Then for data in the cookies before your routine?

 

[cloudseven]

I am also doing a shopping cart for someone and I'm using a temp table for items in cart. If they check out then I write the temp table to an order table and delete the items in the temp table. If that helps!!!

 

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