Where is the shopping cart items kept when added to the cart

Loving OpenCart's Admin and shopping cart, it looks like I will need to totally redesign the checkout page as our customers will simply need to a quick checkout, but I would like to save the order as usual. I do not need a lot of other features. I also do not need to worry about zoning, shipping, or payment, anything like that.

I would just like the customer to check out and get a conformation order.

What I would like to know is where exactly the items are saved when someone adds a product to their shopping cart? Is it a database table, a cookie, a session?

Please help.

It saves it to a session. If you are a logged in customer it also saves it to the db.

Thanks, xsecrets. What DB table is it saved to before the customer checks out?

customer table, cart column

Thanks, Simon, but I looked at the cart column in the customer table and what I see is this for the data:

a:3:{i:76;i:10;s:47:"83:YToxOntpOjI1MDthOjE6e2k6MDtzOjM6IjExMiI7fX0=";i:10;i:73;i:10;}

How can I decipher that to see all the cart details? Is there some PHP function or do I need to explode some array?

hotwebideas wrote:Thanks, Simon, but I looked at the cart column in the customer table and what I see is this for the data:

a:3:{i:76;i:10;s:47:"83:YToxOntpOjI1MDthOjE6e2k6MDtzOjM6IjExMiI7fX0=";i:10;i:73;i:10;}

How can I decipher that to see all the cart details? Is there some PHP function or do I need to explode some array?

You have to use php's unserialize() function

Qphoria wrote:

hotwebideas wrote:Thanks, Simon, but I looked at the cart column in the customer table and what I see is this for the data:

a:3:{i:76;i:10;s:47:"83:YToxOntpOjI1MDthOjE6e2k6MDtzOjM6IjExMiI7fX0=";i:10;i:73;i:10;}

How can I decipher that to see all the cart details? Is there some PHP function or do I need to explode some array?

You have to use php's unserialize() function

Thanks Q!

Sorry for the english,
opencart use session to add in shopping cart but in customer table I found cart column inside it the data about shopping cart
I want to insert data direct to this column and read data from this column how i do this?
I know about serialize and base64 to insert data but I can't insert data in this column in same format??