Hello all,
I'm on the lookout for a simple PHP shopping cart example, the code must be simple and easy to understand. :)
I just want to know the basic principles of the actual 'cart', adding, deleting and editing quantities of products, and what the best way of doing this is (or the easiest) i.e storing orders in database, using sessions, using cookies?
A good tutorial/example that I can integrate into my real world application would be perfect.
Thanks
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I think you check at
http://www.hotscripts.com/
there a lot of shopping cart examples, some commercial, most free...
You can download the script and loo at the sources... is the best way to learn how to do a thing in php.
hi koopddesign,
There is an example of working with a cart in the manual for OOP.
http://us4.php.net/manual/
An extended basic example:
<?php
session_start();
class Cart {
var $items = array();
function add_item($name,$quantity=1
if (array_key_exists($name,$t
$this->items[$name] += $quantity;
}
else {
$this->items[$name] = $quantity;
}
}
function remove_item($name) {
if (array_key_exists($name,$t
unset($this->items[$name])
}
else {
return false;
}
}
function show_cart() {
return($this->items);
}
}
if (!isset($_SESSION['cart'])
$cart = &$_SESSION['cart'];
if (isset($_GET['action'])) {
if ($_GET['action'] == 'add') {
if(isset($_GET['quantity']
$cart->add_item($_GET['ite
}
else {
$cart->add_item($_GET['ite
}
}
elseif ($_GET['action'] == 'remove') {
$cart->remove_item($_GET['
}
}
foreach ($cart->show_cart() as $item => $quantity) {
echo " - Item Name: $item Quantity: $quantity<br>\n";
}
?>
Adding an item:
page.php?action=add&item=i
page.php?action=add&item=i
Removing an item:
page.php?action=remove&ite
This is just a basic example to show you how you could build a cart, you can expand it further by adding more validation and perhaps adding options to adjust the quantity of an item in the cart.
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by: sajuksPosted on 2005-06-28 at 04:58:51ID: 14317192
Tutorial at
http://www.hotscripts.com/
Check readymade scripts at
http://squirrelcart.com/
http://www.hotscripts.com/
http://www.freescripts.com
http://php.resourceindex.c