Add to shopping cart related questions

Using Django
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Hi,

I have a question about how to implementing add a item to shopping cart function on a e-commerce website, there are some Django tutorial online shows how to write add_to_cart function for a online store, but on those tutorial they only show how to get item from one model. What if a online store has multiple category products and they use different Models to represent different category products, how do I use only one add_to_cart function to get what ever category product I need? Or I have to write multiple add_to_cart function for each category (Model) to make it work?

Thanks!

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Write your function to do whatever you need it to do.

It’s going to be really tough answering your questions in detail without knowing the specific add_to_cart function being used or the tutorial you’re getting your information from.

But in general, add_to_cart is either going to be a view, or be a function being called from a view. Either way, it doesn’t matter. You access data the same way you would in any other view or function. Using it in a shopping cart / e-commerce application doesn’t change anything.