Where are cart contents stored?

[Ajeh]

You are getting into the grey area of the cache ...

Were you to add to cart and not be able to touch the update cart button when you truncated the session table then that would not happen ...

[superprogrammer]

Thanks, you are right
I understood now
Where is the format of sessions defined?
San

[Kim]

Perhaps if you told us exactly what you are wanting to do we could point you in the right direction.

[superprogrammer]

I am trying to understand the things
When I said
foreach($_SESSION as $key=>$value)
{
echo 'The value of $_SESSION['."'".$key."'".'] is '."'".$value."'".' <br />';
}

Is it because all session info is stored in the database?

Currently the session table has the record:

customers_host_address|s:9:"localhost";cartID|s:0:"";cart|O:12:"shoppingcart":8: {s:8:"contents";a:1:{i:27;a:1:{s:3:"qty";i:1;}}s:5:"total";d:90;s:6:"weight";i:8 ;s:6:"cartID";s:5:"97814";s:12:"content_type";b:0;s:18:"free_shipping_item";i:0; s:20:"free_shipping_weight";i:0;s:19:"free_shipping_price";i:0;}language|s:7:"en glish";languages_id|s:1:"1";currency|s:3:"USD";check_valid|s:4:"true";navigation |O:17:"navigationhistory":2:{s:4:"path";a:3:{i:0;a:4:{s:4:"page";s:5:"index";s:4 :"mode";s:6:"NONSSL";s:3:"get";a:1:{s:5:"cPath";s:2:"18";}s:4:"post";a:0:{}}i:1; a:4:{s:4:"page";s:21:"products_general_info";s:4:"mode";s:6:"NONSSL";s:3:"get";a :3:{s:5:"cPath";s:2:"18";s:4:"sort";s:3:"20a";s:6:"action";s:29:"multiple_produc ts_add_product";}s:4:"post";a:2:{s:11:"products_id";a:10:{i:19;s:1:"0";i:36;s:1: "0";i:37;s:1:"0";i:34;s:1:"0";i:35;s:1:"0";i:23;s:1:"0";i:16;s:1:"0";i:22;s:1:"0 ";i:12;s:1:"0";i:27;s:1:"1";}s:7:"submit1";s:29:"Add Selected Products to Cart";}}i:2;a:4:{s:4:"page";s:13:"shopping_cart";s:4:"mode";s:6:"NONSSL";s:3:"ge t";a:1:{s:4:"sort";s:3:"20a";}s:4:"post";a:0:{}}}s:8:"snapshot";a:0:{}}update_ex pirations|s:4:"true";new_products_id_in_cart|s:0:"";valid_to_checkout|b:1;cart_e rrors|s:0:"";

1. Where is it defined that write the sessions in this format?
2. In which fiile are we doing this and in which file we are parsing the session(if at all)

Thanks

[Kim]

Are you wanting to be able to manipulate the information in the cart?

[superprogrammer]

Are you wanting to be able to manipulate the information in the cart?

Yes and also how can I change this format if required

[superprg]

Anyone please answer