VbzCart/docs/tables/shop cart

About

• Purpose: Shopping cart data is kept separate from order data because we end up with a lot of carts that never become orders; eventually they get cleaned out. Order data may eventually get cleaned out too, but with different criteria; for now, we are keeping order data indefinitely.
• Fields:
  • ID_Cust is for future use when customers can log in to retrieve their personal data
  • ID_Session is for future use when sessions are tracked

SQL

<section begin=sql /><mysql>DROP TABLE IF EXISTS `shop_carts`; CREATE TABLE `shop_carts` (

 `ID`         INT NOT NULL AUTO_INCREMENT,
 `ID_Session` INT DEFAULT NULL       COMMENT "shop_sessions.ID, when implemented -- session in which cart was created",
 `WhenCreated` DATETIME NOT NULL     COMMENT "when the cart was first created",
 `WhenViewed`  DATETIME DEFAULT NULL COMMENT "when the cart's contents were last displayed by the customer",
 `WhenUpdated` DATETIME DEFAULT NULL COMMENT "when the cart's contents were last changed",
 `WhenOrdered` DATETIME DEFAULT NULL COMMENT "when the cart's contents were transferred to an order",
 `ID_Order`   INT DEFAULT NULL       COMMENT "core_orders.ID of order into which cart was transferred",
 `ID_Cust`    INT DEFAULT NULL       COMMENT "core_custs.ID of customer for this order",
  PRIMARY KEY(`ID`)
) ENGINE = MYISAM;</mysql>

<section end=sql />