shopping cart multiple instance

hi !

good class ! ;)

my need: i build a shopping website whith a multiple caddie . explain - now, shopping card is for an shippment or one person - i need a shopping card for a family for example, for 4 persons which are not the same products on shopping card - Numero of ordre is the same for family, but rows are differents ... and in fine, total is for the family



(my english is no good)

look as you told us your english is not the best (same like mine), maybe you can create a document/flow chart to explain this a little more.

new order_id -> person1 adds rows          -> view the shopping card with n persons baskets (shopping)
                   -> person2 adds rows
                   -> person3 adds rows
                    -> ... person n adds row


in a web site marchand, each members of a family can buy differents products but have a same payment

and this happens via different browsers?

i don't understand ?

you say that multiple users are filling one shopping cart, does this happen on one or multiple PC's?

humm one PC

i explain with another example:

you connect to an holidays website - this web site propose to you to compose your stay for each members of your family. father, mother, boy and girl.

Your stay is 4 days - each members have a pseudo and choice (buy) an  activity leasure different from the others (product)
For each days, father put his activities on his basket , mother, boy and girl too - then you have 4 under-basket (each members) and one principal basket (family) - With each under-basket, you can controle if the member choice is correct - Finaly, principal basket show each under-basket, and total -

maybe I'm wrong but this "sub-baskets" are looking more like products, otherwise it is something special what I have never seen before.

is this concept from yourself or is there a website with a similar feature?

it's a concept from myself for a specific web site
in fact, i'm working to develop a holidays website where you can build your stay, from each members of a family

now, an order of db_cart is linking to a shippment
in my concept, i link rows to order, order to members and an meta-order to shipment

shipment is my family

i need to manage as much session than there are members in the family and one sesssion for meta-order_id which is my final  shopping cart

I don't think that there is a script on the internet which can handle this kind of application, looks like that you have to write your own ;)

Your idea sounds a bit strange, why don't you just have all family members put their 'items' in one basket? You don't see a family of 5 doing some shopping in the supermarket, each having their own shopping cart but checking out together as one at the cash register...

I have booked vacations on the internet with different companies and they all work like a normal shopping cart: you get your flight and hotel stay and then ad any extras like for instance a diving course, which you simply add twice if you are going diving with two people.

I don't think your idea will add anything to the holiday shopping (except for a lot of trouble getting it working and possibly confusion for the visitors...)

and don't forget the extra development costs...