shopping-cart

Shopping Cart

What should I take into consideration while building a Shopping Cart, for a eCommerce site (no metal work here =))? Some clarification: I'm only for suggestions for building the cart only, I can not use a prebuilt system or an external system (google, paypal) And I have the processing done. ...

What are the pros/cons of available shopping cart solutions?

I'd like to know what everyone's experiences are with various shopping cart solutions. I'm considering Google Checkout for payment processing, but would like to know of alternatives as well, and any reasons for or against those alternatives. At this point, teh technology stack doesn't really matter - but please specify what stack is bein...

Which PHP open source shopping cart solutions have features that benefit me as the web developer?

There are hundreds of shopping cart solutions available for every platform, and all hosting plans come with several already installed. As a developer I understand that most of these are fairly similar from a user perspective. But which ones are built with the developer in mind? For example, which ones have a decent API so that my custo...

Best php/ruby/python e-commerce solution

I'm looking for an easy to skin and customize e-commerce package. I've been reading good reviews about Magento, but it seems to have problems with performance. I've tried osCommerce before and found it to be pretty painful to modify, but I hear zenCart is better... but the latest release of zenCart is nearly a year old, so not sure how...

Query Parse error in shopping kart application

In my shopping cart app, I execute a query using: 44: @mysql_query("insert into cart(cookieId, itemId, qty) values('" . GetCartId() . "', $itemId, $qty)"); But when I view the webpage, I get the following error: Parse error: parse error, unexpected T_STRING, expecting '{' in H:\Program Files\EasyPHP 2.0b1\www\beta\cart.php on line 44 ...

What is the best way to develop a shopping site, that others can use.

I'd like to develop an ecommerce site where I could allow others to sell items, things like pictures, videos, flash, etc. I want to be able to keep a percentage, and pay the rest back to the seller. Is there anything available, DotNetNuke, etc. that would do this or help get this started. If not what's a good way to approach this with t...

Has anyone found payment processor documentation very poor

Does anyone else find that the documentation of a lot of payment processors have poor or incomplete documentation as to how to use their API? Or it's just plain confusing? Recently I have setup both PayPal and Beanstream and found that both are either confusing or don't include full documentation. For example, in the BeanStream documen...

Looking for a PHP cart that can update pricing with a Web Service

Our company wants to resell products that change in price quickly. Our wholesaler offers a web service that we can call to get the current price of any item at any time. We would like to call this web service before displaying the product page to the user. (It would be bad for us if we sold a bunch of memory just after a large price i...

Mechanics of selling web software

I'm building a web application (Java/Flex) that I hope to one day sell, but am aiming for a private beta to start with. I've been looking for some resources that explain the mechanics of processing a user's registration and payment, and then making the web app aware of that user's credentials and entitlement, but have yet to find anythin...

RESTful Multiple Updates (Example: Clear a Shopping Cart)?

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Best way to implement shopping cart using PHP/MySQL

I'm working on a customer's website, and they've asked for a shopping cart. They need to use securetrading.net for the payment, so I don't need to ask for any credit card details. All I need to do is keep track of the items in their cart. I've read about using PHP sessions, but I'm concerned about security there. Is this not a problem i...

Asp.Net MVC. Updating user control (Shopping Cart) with Ajax

I want to implement a user control which represents a list of the current items in a user's shopping cart, and which is included from within the a master page. I want to add a product to the shopping cart; the shopping cart should be automatically updated with an asynchronous call (JavaScript framework is jQuery) when a user adds a prod...

How to disable AJAX-y links before page Javascript ready to handle them?

I am implementing a shopping cart for my website, using a pseudo-AJAX Lightbox-esque effect. (It doesn't actually call the server between requests -- everything is just Prototype magic to update the displayed values.) There is also semi-graceful fallback behavior for users without Javascript: if they click add to cart they get taken to...

asp.net Open Source Shopping Cart

I'm looking for a shopping cart solution for asp.net, but as it's quite a low price solution, don't want to buy one/spend too much, so something open source, or reasonably priced (eg less than $500). It needs modifying for our purposes, so need source code. Alternatively, is there any good way of doing a "hosted" cart with an api which...

How can I handle fractional quantities in an e-store shopping cart?

I am building an e-store and I need to have the ability to add fractional quantities to the shopping cart. Admin would set a denominator per product (e.g. 8 would mean that the minimum purchase is 1/8 of a case) I currently use a jQuery slider and display the quantity in the asp:Label which works just fine on product pages, however it...

shopping cart sometimes makes sales for $0...how to troubleshoot?

I am not using a pre-made shopping cart, I programming it myself. It works perfectly fine 99% of the time, but about once every couple months an order goes through for $0. I cannot figure out why. I make a test purchase with the same product and all the same info and I cannot get it to be $0 for me. I am not sure how to go about trouble ...

ASP.NET Site Membership Fee Processing

I am building a site where people will sign up and pay to use an online web app (a yearly fee). What I've been looking for, but can't seem to find is a very simple checkout/order processing component for this type of scenario. I really don't want or need a full-blown shopping cart with product pages, etc., since we're really only selling...

Any good cfml Shopping Cart app?

Any good cfml Shopping Cart app? Tried using one? What's your experience with it? ...

How to maintain the same ASP session during a redirect to SSL?

I have a shopping cart website running classic ASP that needs help during the checkout process. When a user is ready to checkout, they are redirected to an SSL version of the site. Response.Redirect "https://mysecuresite.com/beginCheckoutProcess.asp" When the jump occurs, the customer starts a new session when they arrive at the SSL...

How to implement CrateAndBarrel.com alike shopping-cart ?

We are looking for approach to implement shopping-cart that keep shopping items at the bottom of the page, just like CrateAndBarrels http://www.crateandbarrel.com/family.aspx?c=837&f=28291 The visitor should be able to add shopping item to the cart by clicking the item's "+ Add to Cart" button. From my understanding, for CrateAndB...