Which tables are affected in Magento 1.9 when I empty the cart?

Question

I am working with a Magento 1.9. I had added some products (Simple products) to my cart as a logged in user and saved it for checkout it later. But I haven't placed it as an order. I empty that cart.

Which are the tables affected by this process while I am emptying the cart? There is no changes in sales_flat_quote and sales_flat_quote_items, after doing this .But it is removed from my cart. How does Magento know that my cart is empty? Please help me.

Thanks in advance!

Answer 1

When you add product to the cart, magento will have entries in sales_flat_quote,sales_flat_quote_item and sales_flat_quote_address

ie: Carts are saved to the sales_flat_quote table

The items in the basket are saved to sales_flat_quote_item, linked by the quote's entity_id

Most of the entries in sales_flat_quote_address will be null when you create the cart. later it will be updated on checkout with proper addresses.

So when you remove a product from the cart, that product will be removed from the sales_flat_quote_item and

item_qty,item_count and prices will be removed from the sales_flat_quote

This is the usual working flow. If you are not working on production please do truncate your quote tables and add product to the cart to see this changes. I think you might have missed the changes. Please do check the updated date of entries and you will definitely see the difference.