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So let’s say you run an e-commerce site. Someone adds a bunch of stuff to their cart. You want to remember this so that when they come back their cart is still
by thehappypm 5y ago
So let’s say you run an e-commerce site. Someone adds a bunch of stuff to their cart. You want to remember this so that when they come back their cart is still filled in. Is that a “phantom account”?
- boardwaalk 5y agoNo. What are you getting at? Better to not be deliberately obscure about it.
- throwaway946513 5y agoThat's generally done with browser cookies. But not such a phantom account. Nowhere near the same.
- thehappypm 5y agoSo let’s say the company wants to save the cart, the user’s favorites, and their search preferences so when they come back it’s still there. A cookie isn’t a database. So they store that info in a DB using the cookie id as the index. Is that a phantom account? You’ve got rows in a DB for a user who never signed up.
- throwaway946513 5y agoGenerally when you want to save favorites, most, as far as I've used, storefronts require that you create an account before allowing those functions.
- thehappypm 5y agoYou can book a hotel room as a guest on many hotel sites