[Zope3-Users] Re: Checkout

[Philipp von Weitershausen]

David Johnson wrote:
> Yes. Excuse my lack of explanation.  When developing an eCommerce site, 
> a customer will in the end need to check out.  They will have a shopping 
> cart (which can be handled through sessions and a SQL database), and 
> then they will need to select a form of payment, a delivery address, and 
> complete their purchase.  It's been my experience this is one the most 
> difficult parts of an eCommerce application.

I've written parts of a shopping cart / checkout mechanism for an 
ecommerce site once (though admittedly not with Zope 3 but Zope 2). Do 
you have any specific questions? You seem to have the right idea already 
with sessions, etc. (though nothing in an ecommerce application nor a 
shoppingcart implementation requires a SQL database).

If I had to do it all over again in Zope 3, I'd most probably leverage 
the form data validation and form handler action mechanisms zope.formlib 
has to offer.

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