Re: [PHP] what is the PHP equivalent of Transactional ASP page

2002-11-17 Thread Justin French
I don't know if the 'transaction' page could really determine if the download was *completed* -- perhaps if it was *started*... >From what I can tell, most online s/ware purchases are done in two ways: 1. free download / demo which can be 'unlocked' with a key, which is provided upon payment... r

Re: [PHP] what is the PHP equivalent of Transactional ASP page

2002-11-17 Thread Rasmus Lerdorf
That's what you use a database transaction for, It does not belong at the scripting language level. PHP is built to be scalable, and as such the various requests that make up the "transaction" can come in on different processes and different machines even. The shopping cart data has to live in a

[PHP] what is the PHP equivalent of Transactional ASP page

2002-11-17 Thread See Kok Boon
hi people, just want to know if there such a thing as a Transactional PHP Page and who do i go about setting up a page like this? for those who don't know about ASP, a Transactional ASP page is able to reverse its operations. it is used mainly in ecommerce, in a page where the transaction is carr