Shopping cart software for existing site
I am about to embark on adding a shopping cart facility to an already exisiting site.
The site already has loads of pages of info, and they simply want to sell a minimal amount of products (3 categories would cover it).
I am familiar with X-Cart, but this would be complete overkill for what the client needs.
They literally want customers to be able to purchase the few products available on-line, but keep the existing site looking the same.
Looking for advise please..
greg posted this at 14:33 — 16th August 2009.
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The last site I did with only a few products I simply coded the products to be added to a PHP $_SESSION when the user added one to their basket.
The prices, delivery etc were also stored in the session, but all this depends on the nature of the site and products, and the payment gateway you use.
Then on the basket page the cart just looped through the session and displayed all products, prices etc.
Same with Paypal checkout code, just looped the session for the details required to send to Paypal.
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benjy posted this at 17:25 — 18th August 2009.
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Thankyou for your reply..
I was looking at using existing software though - my php skills are nowhere near that yet (doing a course next year).
greg posted this at 22:29 — 18th August 2009.
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Ahh no problem.
I haven't really used many cart/shop software, certainly none that is really suitable for a "few items".
Paypal offer a basket system if you use their checkout. It's a bit of a learning curve, but their tutorials and guides are pretty slick, and it's mainly HTML code.
They give you all the code you need to add to the areas of your site.
The Paypal basket and checkout is probably no more to learn than a large basket and checkout software. Most of them are catered for a range of requirements, so often have a lot of options and settings to become familiar with.
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