Multiple users on one account: session data

I figure that this should be possible, as it is a requirement asked by my supervisor. There are a few types of acco开发者_如何学Cunts, one of them is a 'company' account which should allow anyone in the company who has these credentials to log in at the same time.

Now my question is, how do I store temporary data like: (this is fictive) shopping carts, keeping track of wizards,... I suppose that I'll have to store this in the database? What would be my best option. Link it to the unique session id?

---

Yes, you can store sessions in your database if you like. A nice way to do it, is by creating a sessions like table that stores states. Therefore, if you have a cart, you can have a cart table that represents what products the cart has and replay that after a user logs back in.

---

Session information isn't based on your account-system but on the system of the visitor (cookie). Unless you want all information to be shared across all users logged in on the company account (which I doubt) you shouldn't have to store any of the information in the database.

To store the data you can simply keep using session (as I suppose you already do for the 'normal' account.