Re: [mv] Saved Cart Question?

[cfm@maine.com]

On Sun, Mar 25, 2001 at 12:32:24AM -0700, OTR Comm wrote:
> hello,
> 
> Does anyone know how to remove an item from a cart that has been
> 'saved'?  It appears that MV3.14 saves the cart in userdb.gdbm, but I do
> not know how to get directly at the cart in the database.
> 
> I am trying to do this with a perl script that runs as a special
> process.
> 
> The problem is this. If someone puts an item in their cart and saves the
> cart, there is a record (I believe in userdb.gdbm and maybe
> session.gdbm) of this saved cart.  Then if a store owner removes one of
> the items in the saved cart from the store before the customer has had a
> chance to process the items in the saved cart, when the customer comes
> back and 'recalls' the cart, the removed item will be in it.
> 
> I wnat to write a script that will go through the 'saved' carts in
> userdb.gdbm (and session.gdbm if necessary) to remove these unavailable
> items from the carts.

Is that any different from an item disappearing from the store
during a session?  Do you have some sort of extra long session life
tied in with prepayments or some such?

I just tried that and the item simply disappears from the cart but
with a qty 1 and price of zero.  We've got some custom cart code so
that might or might not be same for you.

Seems to me a little perl routine on the cart/checkout pages 
could handle that nicely.  Or is there some specific reason you need
to remove it from the gdbm file itself, whether the visitor returns
or not?

cfm



> 
> Does anyone know how this can be done?
> 
> Thanks,
> Murrah Boswell
> 
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