[phplib] Re: [PHP] VERY IMPORTANT: Sessions in Pages with a Form! From: Dennis Gearon (gearond <email protected>)
Date: 09/29/00

Customer 24ty843 in it one of the following:

SITE USAGE TRANSACTION
S1-Waiting for selection
   or addition of transaction
   and identification of customer

REFUND TRANSACTION PURCHASE TRANSACTION COMPLAINT TRANSACTION
State1-Waiting for S1-Waiting for login S1-Waiting for selection of
   login S2-Waiting for category of complaint type
State2-Waiting for selection S2-Waiting for complaint
   first from to S3-Waiting for selction text.
   be filled for info or add to S3-Waiting for approval
State3-Waiting for shopping cart. of filled in complaint
   second form to S4-waiting for delivery form.
   be filled information or
State5-Waiting for approval of stored
   RMA issuance delivery information
State6-Waiting for S5-waiting for pmt info
   product replace S6-waiting for approval
   ment information of pre checkout
State(6A)-WAiting for receipt
   database of S7-Waiting for payment
   current products approval and final
   to check if receipt
   replacement is (S7A) waiting credit
   avail. card or accounting
State(6B)-Waiting fro approval
   Customer to say if
   replacement, substitute,
   or refund is desired
blah blha blah

multiple transactions can be kept in the database. I would make the
trasactions be
objects and the states be part of a 'literal array'. I would use a State
Transition Diagram to navigate through the states and event. I think
there should be timeouts on different transactions. If necessary, email
the client and tell them that such and such transaction in proces is
going to expire.

The transactions are serialized objects stored in the database. In
changing the web page, the transactions that are pending would be
expired and email automatically sent. Alternatively, the transactions
could be tied to a 'traslation' scheme when a new replacement is made.

Maxim Maletsky wrote:
>
> Hi Dennis, this seems to be an interesting solution, could you please tell
> me about it more?
> with some codes, examples perhaps.
>
> Thanks in advance.
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Dennis Gearon [mailto:gearond <email protected>]
> Sent: Friday, September 29, 2000 6:34 AM
> To: php-general <email protected>
> Subject: Re: [PHP] VERY IMPORTANT: Sessions in Pages with a Form!
>
> Has anyone thought of putting a 'state variable' plus a 'session-id'
> plus a 'transaction type' in the cookie/post/get data? If someone backs
> up with the browser, the cookie/get/post would reflect where they were
> in the transaction and either step it back or reprint where they were
> with a button that says, "do youreally want to go back?"
>
> Also, couldn't this state be kept in the sesssion data base and just
> referenced via the session number?
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Dennis K. Gearon (Kegley)                           Loyal Member
Scientific Instrument Technician, School of ETM       of The 
Oregon Institute of Technology                       Order of
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Klamath Falls, OR 97601                      'v'    standards
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FAX     1-541-885-1689                     /(   )\   ^phear^
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