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PHP Shopping Cart, I can't take it anymore I need some help!

Posted: Wed May 14, 2003 12:21 am
by jshields55
I am in the process of building a small e-commerce site and have been stuck on the shopping cart for what feels like months! I'm new to PHP and MySQL but I’ve been working hard at it and now I can retrieve and display my catalog online with relative ease and update my MySQL tables.

What I need is a simple, secure stand alone shopping cart or script that I can integrate into an existing site. Know of any solutions?

Basically if I have a link on my website of product info... example

<a href="show_shoppingcart.php?id=$id&price=$price&qty=$qauntity">Add</a>

The shopping cart will do the rest without having to do any more MySQL queries on the product, just take the information given, I guess use session variables, and let the customer check out. I don’t mind creating tables to house the customer information, but enough with the pages of code and includes() and requires() and cluttered “MySQL cart tables”.

Than is a lot to ask but surely there is a simple solution that exists! :D

Please feel free to email me: jshields55@yahoo.com .

Thank you

Posted: Wed May 14, 2003 3:00 am
by deejay
check this opened source cart http://www.oscommerce.com , i can't recommend it enough.

Posted: Wed May 14, 2003 8:14 am
by jshields55
deejay wrote:check this opened source cart http://www.oscommerce.com , i can't recommend it enough.

I've read in many places that oscommerce is not for the novice and that it takes an experienced programmer to figure it out. Do you know of any cart that is easier and more customizable, every oscommerce driven site that I have come across looks exactly the same. I’m looking for a cart that I can integrate into an existing site, it seems like oscomerce is for building and managing the entire site.

Posted: Wed May 14, 2003 10:12 am
by McGruff
A non php solution I've used in the past when I didn't know any server side stuff: http://www.dansie.net/