Storing shopping cart orders via Apache::Session

[pashanoid]

Dear Brethern, what's the propper way of storing shopping cart items in Apache::Session? should I encode the orders in one hash like:

$session{'cart'}='item_1=quantity:item_2=quantity:...';

encode/decode it every time the user adds/deletes items from his cart and pass it around or is there a better/propper wat to do this? Thank you!

[Anonymous Monk]

store an array instead -- just like the documentation shows

 $session{an_array_ref} = [ $one, $two, $three ];

[pashanoid]

any chance you can provide an exaple?

[Anonymous Monk]

I just did. You can find additional examples in MANIFEST (hint, its t/99file.t)