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Shopping cart and Variables

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Topic: Shopping cart and Variables

Posted By: sprychun
Subject: Shopping cart and Variables
Date Posted: 25 July 2003 at 12:10pm

First question: What is the best way to go about having an insecure shopping cart? Cookies?
Second question: In an ASP page how can I carry a variable from one page to the next? Through a link?

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Posted By: Flamewave
Date Posted: 25 July 2003 at 12:48pm

For your first question, cookies would work, but I think using a database would be the best way. Even a text file on the server would work, although using a database is much better.

For your second question, you can use a querystring (get)/form (post), session variable, or a cookie. There may be other ways, but these are the most popular and easiest that I know of.

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- Flamewave

They say the grass is greener on the other side, but if you really think about it, the grass is greener on both sides.

Posted By: Mart
Date Posted: 25 July 2003 at 3:18pm

If you are making a shopping cart it might be worth having some security like basic database encryption and i would also advice not to use text files unless permissions deny directory listing and have encoding/encryption...

Posted By: sprychun
Date Posted: 25 July 2003 at 5:10pm

Thank you for the help! How do those GET POST commands look in code?

Posted By: Flamewave
Date Posted: 25 July 2003 at 9:32pm

The get and post were reffering to form actions, which is html. I don't think you can manually create a form variable without submitting a form, but you can manually make a querystring (also what a form uses when you use the get methood). Although you have to be careful with querystring variables has they are much eaiser to hack then form and session variables are.

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- Flamewave

They say the grass is greener on the other side, but if you really think about it, the grass is greener on both sides.

Posted By: Mart
Date Posted: 26 July 2003 at 3:26am

file.asp is the file in which you want to retrive querystring variables in this example. If you goto file.asp?variable1=hello and in file.asp put <%=request.querystring("variable1")%> it should write 'hello'.