On Nov 3, 2:50*pm, themayanlion <den...@victoryrecords.comwrote:
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I am at a total loss as to how to accomplish a feature in a shopping
cart. (I am using PHP5 and MySQL)
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Basically, when someone adds an item to their cart, it should alter
the inventory to reflect it. That part i have fine, but the problem
is, that should a person decide not to complete their purchase, the
level should go back up. So the decrease in available stock should go
down only temporarily, until checkout.
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The actual transaction is through PayPal, which complicates things,
cause let's say someone quits halfway on the paypal site, i'd have no
way to trigger a script or something like that. Or, even if they go
through a transaction, a user may not return to the site to trigger a
confirmation script.
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I have been reasearching all day, and it just baffles me. I had
considered a type of "users online" type of script, but i guess the
logic just baffles me. The poimt of this is to avoid overselling
stock.
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So yeah, if anyone can help by pointing me to a script or just give
some logic on how i can keep track of inventory this way, that would
be fantastic.
of course, is this is also impossible, that would actually help me
sleep a little better :)
