Chapter 5. Shopping Cart
In This Chapter
A complete shopping cart system
A text-file database
Storing information in the ASP Session object
A simple keyword search engine
As I write this, e-commerce dot-coms are going out of business with the same manic intensity as they burst on the scene last year or the year before. So long as your customers are other businesses, it's probably safe to admit to being in the Internet business—at least for the moment.
The case for doing business online, of course, continues to be more and more compelling, and, although large sites will need industrial-strength systems, the shopping cart system in this chapter will easily handle a few sales—or even a few hundred sales per day.
Two of the critical ingredients of ...
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