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Shopping Carts

A shopping cart application is a server-side dynamically generated set of Web pages which allow a user to browse items, and add them to their "cart" at the click of a button.
 
The user can (usually) examine and modify the contents of their "cart". When they are ready, they move to a final "commit" page, where they finalise the ordering process, with (for example) a credit card number, shipping address and an email contact address.
CGI-based shopping cart, www.ravenrecords.com.au
Image used with permission of Raven Records, the "THE ULTIMATE IN REISSUES".
Lecture 8: Web Commerce Technologies Copyright © 2005 P.Scott, La Trobe University Bendigo.


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