Wishlist in ecommerce website?

Thanks for the reply guys

 

@Sundar

I want to avoid using database or callling server function for not logged in users .

In your approach I will have to call server even for writing cookies, isnt using local storage better then ?

 

@Sameer

Yes I agree with you not logged in users should not have wish lists but can't help it , that the requirement from Business.

As per my knowledge, storing wishlist for guest user doesn't make any sense.

Wishlist will be provided to the logged in users and will be stored in database.

 

Please check some ecommerce sites how the wishlist works. 

 

If you use cookies, Check for possible issues you may face, suppose i opened your ecommerce site and added few items to wishlist, and some other user login to your site from the same browser,

then you will add cookie stored items to logged in user wishlist which he has not added(added by someone else on same browser). 

Hai , 

 

Instead of using use browser local storage, try to use sessions or datatable. always handle the with server storgae. Using ajax you can achive  server side storeage. 

 

try like this

 

when a user addes a product to his wish list, you make a cookie where you store the ProductID (primary key, int) from the database table where you store products

Response.Cookies["wishList"].Value = productID;

Response.Cookies["wishList"].Expires = DateTime.Now.AddHours(2);

if the user already added before some products in his wish list (with other words, the cookie already exists - because you created when added first time), you make a new cookie with same name, but where you add the second product near first one

String cookieValue = Request.Cookies["wishList"].Value.ToString();

cookieValue = cookieValue + "," + productID;

Response.Cookies["wishList"].Value = cookieValue.ToString();

Response.Cookies["wishList"].Expires = DateTime.Now.AddHours(2);

now you have in a cookie the productID's of with that user wants in his wish list[;)]