Hi Guys
I know this is demanding but would love to be able to do some coding for this cool shopping cart page my company is demanding me for. Please help!
It's an excellent idea to have little cart displayed while shopping so customers don't have to go back and forth. And that complicated quantity change and css change colour applied to database table. It will take weeks to do this!
http://www.mr-resistor.co.uk/item.aspx ... 57&i=1850
Any tutorial would be appreciated. Thanks a lot!
How to design a shopping cart like this in PHP?
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- prasitc2005
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The question is
Hi
The question is how to write an add to cart scripts with function, session and cart display page within the same page in PHP. This url is designed in aspx. The most important figure of this link is how to add multiple items into the mini shopping cart appeared within the same page.
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The question is how to write an add to cart scripts with function, session and cart display page within the same page in PHP. This url is designed in aspx. The most important figure of this link is how to add multiple items into the mini shopping cart appeared within the same page.
Thanks
Have you considered using a solution like oscommerce or zen-cart? Those two are both free, open-source and pretty easily customizable. There are also solutions like x-cart which have a small fee, but I've heard it's a better product. I have no personal experience with x-cart, but I've customized oscommerce before, and although it has its issues, I can guarantee you it's going to be faster than building from the ground up.
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Hi
Thanks for quick reply. Wish I am allowed to use open source package but my company wants everything bespoke. Their design template is fixed and they are quite fussy about their own design to be simple and clean. I just need to be able to design these scripts and database structure consisting of:
- product page with multiple items add to cart
- function page
- showcart page
This is frustrating at a moment but would be some great skills to have and learn. If I can get through this, I will be able to use it for any other jobs really. Hope you guys can kindly lead me into the right direction.
Cheers
Thanks for quick reply. Wish I am allowed to use open source package but my company wants everything bespoke. Their design template is fixed and they are quite fussy about their own design to be simple and clean. I just need to be able to design these scripts and database structure consisting of:
- product page with multiple items add to cart
- function page
- showcart page
This is frustrating at a moment but would be some great skills to have and learn. If I can get through this, I will be able to use it for any other jobs really. Hope you guys can kindly lead me into the right direction.
Cheers
I don't think you understand. You can customize those cart systems to look EXACTLY how you want.
These are all sites build with oscommerce:
http://www.elektrostall.de/
http://www.lakeland-printing.com/
http://ayurvedayogashop.com/
And more here:
http://shops.oscommerce.com/
Honestly, building a shopping cart system is probably a huge waste of time for you. I mean, building a custom solution definitely has its place, but 99% of the time, an open-source solution will do.
Here... this outta get you started: http://www.google.com/search?q=customizing+oscommerce
These are all sites build with oscommerce:
http://www.elektrostall.de/
http://www.lakeland-printing.com/
http://ayurvedayogashop.com/
And more here:
http://shops.oscommerce.com/
Honestly, building a shopping cart system is probably a huge waste of time for you. I mean, building a custom solution definitely has its place, but 99% of the time, an open-source solution will do.
Here... this outta get you started: http://www.google.com/search?q=customizing+oscommerce
- prasitc2005
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Hi
Thanks again. You're an open source expert!
You're right, oscommerce can be customized but not totally cause it depends so much on its own template and looks out of date with 2 or 3 boring column design.
I wish there was a cool open source php shopping cart which we can totally manipulate everything. Perhaps a wide selection of shopping cart scripts. Can you recommend any good books on this?
Thanks again. You're an open source expert!
You're right, oscommerce can be customized but not totally cause it depends so much on its own template and looks out of date with 2 or 3 boring column design.
I wish there was a cool open source php shopping cart which we can totally manipulate everything. Perhaps a wide selection of shopping cart scripts. Can you recommend any good books on this?
Yes there really is a need for a fully customizable open-source PHP shopping cart. A few members of this community (including myself) began working on a project called devnetstore back in December, but due to nobody having the time/interest not a lot has gotten done. You can check out the project here:
http://www.devnetstore.com
http://www.devnetstore.com