Hello,

I need to build a shopping cart in ASP, but it's the first time I'm doing this. I'm quite experienced in ASP sites but there's only one thing that prevents me from doing this shopping cart easily:

I would like to ask how is it possible to save info such as the items that the customer adds to his cart, each item's quantity, price and productID, and other cart info such as payment method etc.

I was thinking that maybe this is possible to do with cookies in an array form, and then use FOR... EACH statements when displaying the info. For example:

The customer adds to his cart a product named "Vanilla", product ID 34, priced $13 and quantity of 2:

intProdID = Request("prod_id") // 34
Response.Cookie("items")( intProdID )("name") = Request("name") // Vanilla
Response.Cookie("items")( intProdID )("price") = Request("price") // 13
Response.Cookie("items")( intProdID )("qty") = Request("qty") // 2

And then when I want to display the info:

FOR EACH item IN Request.Cookie("items")

Response.Write(item & " " & item("name") & " $" & item("price") & " x " & 
item("qty") & "<br>"
NEXT

Will display:

34 Vanilla $13 x 2

Will something like this work? And how to write it correctly?

Thanks.

It would work but it would be like this

item( intProdID )("name")

etc.

Or

For Each item in Request.Cookie("items")( intProdID ) etc.

No that's not right. What if I want to have several items? So, for example, the above code that I wrote would generate something like:

34 Vanilla $13 x 2
51 Popsky $15.7 x 1
22 Shroom $12.69 x 4

It needs to be able to handle several ProductID's.

Here is an example of a code that works. It's part of an e-mail sending script:

For Each obj in request.form
body = body & obj & ": " & request.form(obj) & vbCrLf
Next

The result is this:

fieldname: fieldvalue
fieldname: fieldvalue
fieldname: fieldvalue

For example, if I have a form like this:

<input type="text" name="Name"><br>
<input type="text" name="Phone"><br>
<input type="text" name="Address><br>

The result would be:

Name: Joe Shmoe
Phone: 1-800-BLA
Address: Some st. 15

And that is something that I know it works for sure. If I try to use this method with the cookies, it should be:

<%
FOR EACH item IN Request.Cookie("items")
Response.Write("ProdID: " & item & "<br>")
Response.Write("Name: " & Request.Cookie("items")(item)("name") & "<br>")
Response.Write("Price: " & Request.Cookie("items")(item)("price") & "<br>")
%>

And so on... Or the first code that I wrote above... Any thoughts?

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