Day 9. Building the Shopping Cart

In today's lesson, you will be presented with two methods of adding a shopping cart to your online store. You will also learn several additional methods of working with the ActiveX Data Objects (ADO). Today, you will learn the following:

• How to create a shopping cart using Session variables

• How to use the native methods of the ADO to add, delete, and update records in a Recordset

• How to create a shopping cart using a database table

Using Session Variables to Create a Shopping Cart

In this section, you'll learn how to create a shopping cart by storing product information in a Session variable. When a customer clicks the Add To Cart button on a product page, the product the customer selected will be added ...

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