Looking for a session cart

[frocco]

Hello,

I am learning django and want to port an app over from PHP.

In PHP, I use a session cart to store items purchased.

Is there anything for django?

[Stefano Probst]

Did you mean something like "sessions" (example)?

[Stefano Probst]

There is also a finished Shop application if you want looking how other solve this Problem.

[frocco]

I found django-cart, but it seems to write to the database.

I want to keep items in session until they checkout.

Thanks for the link to Shop, I will take a look at that also.

[Stefano Probst]

But this is what "sessions" does. By default a session is saved in the database but you can move it also in a cache (https://docs.djangoproject.com/en/1.4/topics/http/sessions/#using-cached-sessions ). Memcached is realy performant.
You can write by write "request.session['fav_color'] = green" and read by write "request.session['fav_color']" or "fav_color = request.session.get('fav_color', 'red')" then "red" is the default value if "fav_color" is'nt set.

[frocco]

Thanks, I need to look at this, not sure how django-cart knows what records are for each user logged in.

[Mario Gudelj]

Use django-cart. It does store the cart content in db but it stores the session as well, so it will nicely match the user to their cart content according to the cart id stored inside a cookie. It's a breeze to implement with any product model. I highly recommend it.

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[frocco]

Thanks, I tried it last night and it seems like a fit for me, porting my PHP app logic.