Level 1
why do you torture yourself so?
just create a cart and cart item table. you can always delete inactive carts later
Jul 5, 2019
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Level 2
How to read any user’s session data?
Right now when my users add products to their shopping cart it’s stored in file system session.
Sometimes they go as far as creating an account but not then purchasing - so I want to automatically email them with one of those ‘you left these products in your cart why don’t you buy them’ type emails.
How do I get my server to know which session is for the relevant user and get the cart details from it? I see with database sessions it can be assigned to a user ID so is switching to dB sessions the only way?
Level 2
Maybe that's the best way, I can see how this would work if I created it from the session when the user account got created. But what about before they have a User ID, can I use a cart table associated with sessions maybe?
Level 1
just create a unique cookie value and store it in the db.
$cart_id = str_random(30);
cookie(['cart_id' => $cart_id]);
Cart::create(['cart_id' => $cart_id]);
and you can make user_id nullable
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