e-commerce

[subaru]

Hi guys,

I am trying to build an e-shop using php and mysql. So far, I have managed to store the products, the customers and the products that they have been ordered, to the database. I also have managed to select all of them from the database. I would like to ask you how can I manage to make an order for different products at the same time without the customer to be registered again. Just to give a username and password and then to make the order.

Thanks a lot guys.

[ak1dnar]

I think your question is, you need a way for adding multiple products to the same shopping cart, right?

[robbiesmith79]

No ajaxrand. They're asking for a quick and easy way to store a username and password.

Bascially you need to ask for a username and password at checkout.

In your customers table, add those two fields

Create a quick <form> that asks for those two fields, then

$userid = mysql_query("SELECT userid FROM customers where username='$username' and password = '$password'");

if (!empty($userid))
   $_SESSION["userid"] = $userid;
else
  ;// no user found

There are other ways to do this with the $_COOKIE session variable, but it's all the same.

Then on your page where you collect billing and shipping information, do a quick test for:

if (isset($_SESSION["userid"]))
   ;// get all the previously registered information and then use it as the <input name="firstname" value="$firstname"

HTH,

Rob

[subaru]

You are close ajaxrand,

What I need to do is to add multiple products to the same customer iwithout being registered again.

[ronverdonk]

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[ak1dnar]

You are close ajaxrand,

What I need to do is to add multiple products to the same customer iwithout being registered again.

You have to handle this from table level:
So it's better to show us the table structure that you have made so far. Then we'll be able to get a clear picture.

[subaru]

Thanks ajaxrad. I will post to you the table structure so you have a clear idea of what I need to do.
if the customer does not exist, then add to the customers table. In the shipping page, I see the customer's details with the item tha have been ordered.

I the customer exists, then I want to add another item to the cart but without the customer to be registered again. I mean, the existing customer has to give a username and a password and then the new item will be added to the existing customer.

[backups2007]

Thanks ajaxrad. I will post to you the table structure so you have a clear idea of what I need to do.
if the customer does not exist, then add to the customers table. In the shipping page, I see the customer's details with the item tha have been ordered.

I the customer exists, then I want to add another item to the cart but without the customer to be registered again. I mean, the existing customer has to give a username and a password and then the new item will be added to the existing customer.

You could call the customer id and link it to the orders. So instead of having to require your customer to login again and again, you could use the customer id as a foreign key in the table that contains the customer's orders.

[ak1dnar]

You could call the customer id and link it to the orders. So instead of having to require your customer to login again and again, you could use the customer id as a foreign key in the table that contains the customer's orders.

Yet I don't know, what he has done with his customer registration and login.
That's what I am waiting to see those tables. but you are so correct. On the orders table we have to insert ordered items with a reference to the customer table (customer id) for each product that the customer willing to purchase.

If there is No login or Customer accounts simply he can use a Session based Shopping cart with the application.