Esteemed monks,

I have been experimenting with a very simple shopping cart which emaultes another product we can no longer use (cart provider does not handle our payment processor).

In the following code CGI::Session appears to be not writing the session back to the MySQL database when I do a 'clear' cmd. I query the sessions table on the MySQL monitor. It has the session with say a number of items in the CART variable. I execute the 'clear' command from the borwaser and it displays an empty cart. BUT - I check the db table and it hasn't changed! So when I do another add I have all the previous items as well as the new one added after the 'clear'.

Here is a snippet of the code showing one sub that works and one that doesn't!

sub clrCart {
    my ($cgi, $session) = @_;

    my $cart = $session->param("CART") || [];
    $cart = [];
    $session->param("CART", $cart);
    return displayCart($cgi, $session);
}


sub addItemCart {
    my ($cgi, $session, $orderitem) = @_;

    &getItemForCart($cgi, $session);

    # get current cart contents
    my $cart = $session->param("CART") || [];
    # add selected item
    push @{$cart}, $orderitem;
    # update the CART in the session
    $session->param( "CART", $cart );
    return displayCart($cgi, $session);
}
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The complete code is available on my scratchpad jdtoronto's scratchpad

Thanks for looking! ....john