Creating a Custom Shopping Cart

Summary

In this chapter, you learned how to store the shopping cart information in the database, and you learned a few things in the process as well. Probably the most interesting was the way you can store the shopping cart ID as a cookie on the client, because you haven’t done anything similar so far in this book.

When writing the code for the user interface, you learned how to allow the visitor to update multiple GridView records with a single click, and you also implemented a clever strategy for the Continue Shopping functionality.

At the end, you updated the administrative part of the web site to deal with the new challenges implied by your custom-created shopping cart.

You’ll complete the functionality offered by the custom shopping cart in the next chapter with a custom checkout system. You’ll add a Place Order button to the shopping cart, which allows you to save the shopping cart information as a separate order in the database.

See you in the next chapter!