Hello!
I'm getting married later this year, and instead of doing a wedding registry we want to do a "travel registry." For those that haven't seen one of these before, it's basically an opportunity for guests to buy "parts" of the honeymood instead of a gift. Guests can buy a piece outright (like "snorkling for 6 hours"), or they can buy parts ("$200 towards the flight"). I plan to build this registry as an online site on a server I administer, and I want to build it in PHP (and probably MySQL as the database).
In a past life, I was a very experience PHP programmer, but I've become rusty recently and haven't coded PHP in about 2 years. So, I'd like to find some code that's close to what I want (and hopefully secure) to build upon.
The basic requirements are a very simple shopping cart with a few items with limited quantities (i.e. the flight might be broken into 20 $50 pieces). Users should be able to add pieces to their cart, and then go through a check-out process. After purchasing some items, they'll be removed from the registry (or greyed out). I'll be using PayPal for the credit card transactions, as it really isn't worth getting a merchant account for this small (one-time--hopefully!) project.
Does anybody here have some advice as to what code I could use to build upon, or any other advice on the project? There are lots of shopping carts and paypal gateways, some free, some for pay, and I'm a bit overwhelmed with all the choices. I don't mind paying for code, but I'd prefer to release the code to my entire site when I'm done, so an open-source alternative would be preferable.
Can anybody here help get me started?
Travel Registry: Advice and Starting Point Needed
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Ooops! I didn't realize this should be in the PHP - Code section. Thanks for moving it. 
Yeah, I'm considering doing it myself, and I certainly would have 2 years ago when I was writing PHP every day! But I'm just afraid with my hiatus from PHP (and programming) for so long, I'll end up spending too long and writing insecure code when I know there are about 10-trillion "shopping carts" already programmed in PHP!
Yeah, I'm considering doing it myself, and I certainly would have 2 years ago when I was writing PHP every day! But I'm just afraid with my hiatus from PHP (and programming) for so long, I'll end up spending too long and writing insecure code when I know there are about 10-trillion "shopping carts" already programmed in PHP!
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I'd think the ones at SourceForge would be fairly good.. there are a few, granted. So I'd go after one that's still active and is updated often.
http://sourceforge.net/search/?words=pa ... earch=soft
http://sourceforge.net/search/?words=pa ... earch=soft