PHP Decorator Class
Last year I was given the challenge of adding multiple tiered discounts, simply put as bulk discounts on a large scale custom shopping cart system. The goal was to provide shop owners with the ability to give their customers discounts for buying any product in bulk and that could be configured on a per-product basis.
This shopping cart system hosted multiple stores,upwards of around 30,000 users and grows each month by several hundred. Also each product is setup in a group, when enabled these discounts could be one of two types: Fixed, Compound.
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We have a simple API where I work that isn’t anything impressive, it is just a couple of scripts that accept POST and GET requests. However the previous developer who worked on it hadn’t considered the total ramifications and logged all requests using an email with print statements. Additionally, for each request there could be up to 3 emails generated, one for the initial request, one for errors, and one that included the payment gateway request and response. Not mention it definitely breaks PCI Compliance by emailing people’s credit card information, but we were also experiencing load issues on the web server for all the emails that were being generated through PHP Send Mail and the end result is about 10,000 to 100,000 emails waiting in my email account.
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