However, we??™re not currently
using this information in our order-tracking system, which was created in Phase II of development.
We currently don??™t associate an order with the account of the customer who placed that
order.
In this chapter, we??™ll make the modifications required for customers to place orders that
are associated with their user profiles. The main modification here is that the customer associated
with an order will be identified by a new piece of information in the orders??™ table, and
much of the rest of the modifications in this book will be made to use this information.
These changes will allow us to track into our database the orders placed by a particular
customer and represent a base for implementing the order pipeline and credit card transactions
in the following chapters.
Chapter 18: Implementing the Order Pipeline: Part 1
Order pipeline functionality is an extremely useful capability for an e-commerce site. Order
pipeline functions let us keep track of orders at every stage in the process and provide auditing
information that we can refer to later or if something goes wrong during the order processing.
We can do all this without relying on a third-party accounting system, which can also reduce
costs.
Implementing the order pipeline is the first step we??™re making toward creating a professional
order management system.
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