What options exist for a simple shopping cart system on Symfony? I'm looking for something that will:
Provide an interface for tracking items to purchase.
Provide shopping cart actions and templates (checkout, view cart, etc.)
Support Paypal.
Support coupon codes.
Every Symfony specific solution I've found (sfShop, symfony-ecommerce, sfShoppingCart) is out-of-date and not maintained for 1.4. Are there any other Symfony specific solutions?
If there's nothing Symfony specific, what more general systems integrate cleanly with Symfony? I'm looking for something simple. I don't need complete ecommerce solutions that provide a store, keep track of items/inventory etc. as this is only for a small, paid registration portion of a larger site.
There are no cart systems out there that work properly for 1.4 at the time being.
I am currently finishing up a cart system that does exactly what you are looking for. If you are planning on going the custom route, I may be able to help you along the way.
Good luck.
Update
I ended up creating a shopping cart plugin for symfony 1.4 and posted it open source at the symfony plugin repository.
You can get more information here.
Frontend Demo here.
Backend Demo here.
It is intended to be used by developers who are looking to build an e-commerce solution with symfony.
Also made available on Git as requested.
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One of my partner has an OpenCart webshop (selling electronic products).
She wants to start some kind of affiliate program. So broadly the goal is: all of the products (with categories) can be integrated to another website. Other features should be accessable too, like product filtering, registration, cart, pay, so basically the full register-login-order process.
The budget is quite low, so I'm searching the fastest way to achieve this need.
If it's possible I don't want to install another instance of OpenCart, because flexibility and speed is important to my partner (and to the her potential partners).
Can someone give me a starting point? Some kind of module/extension maybe? I saw a tutorial video (OpenCart product feed), but if I understand it correctly it's 'just' a product feed, with this I cannot do product search/filter, buy from the base webshop etc..
Thank you.
Opencart has a built-in affiliate system that maybe useful.
Opencart also provides an API that you can use although you probably need to extend it so that it suits your needs.
I posted a question here concerning creating a shopping cart. It seems maybe I am misusing the phrase "shopping cart" or maybe the people that answered didn't understand the post well.
I understand that open source software like "Magento, OpenCart, Prestashop etc.." are called shopping carts.
I also understand that paid hosting services like "Shopify, BigCommerce, 3dCart etc.." are also called shopping carts. Am I wrong?
Both the open source and the paid hosting services gives you the admin panel that you use to create your own shopping site.
I also understand that "Yii, CakePHP, Symphony, Zend etc.." are frameworks for creating whatever you want.
Is there a difference between "shopping carts" and "web shops". For me I see them as the same.
A shopping cart is a module of a web shop used for holding items waiting to be ordered in a place where the user can keep track of them.
A web shop is Amazon, ebuyer, or some other shopping site.
Magento is actually classed as eCommerce software which is umbrella term for what you're looking at.
I think you answered your own question: "...hosting services like "Shopify, BigCommerce, 3dCart etc..". These are services that offer a shopping cart. And Webshops are pretty much an implementation of shopping carts. Your whole onlnine store is the webshop, and the mechanism to choose products and purchase them is the shopping cart of that. The likes of "Magento, OpenCart, Prestashop" are eCommerce typically packages that include a shopping Cart that you would use as part of your "webstore". The whole eCommerce solution also includes things like order reports, customer reports, administrative features, etc.
I am building a web application which allows visitors of a site to custom-build a product, and then add that custom-built item to their shopping cart in order to purchase it. For instance, I might build a car with the following customizations:
Alloy wheels
Leather seats
Red
I've searched around looking for a solution to my problem, but have yet to come across anything very helpful. I am using CS-Cart as my shopping cart solution.
What I need to know is how I might programmatically add this custom-built item to a user's shopping cart. Does CS-Cart provide an API for doing something like this? If not, does anyone have any suggestions on how I might achieve my goal? I basically just need to add a generic "custom build" item to the user's cart with the customizations they made somehow attached to this item.
I've been taking a look at CS-Cart and this question came up.
From reading through the CS-Cart API documentation, it looks like CS-Cart's API is more of a plugin framework than an actual web service. In other words, I believe you can write code to modify CS-Cart (or programmatically update shopping cart items) but this code needs to be written as a plugin into CS-Cart rather than simply as an API call from your third-party webapp.
So I think you have two solutions:
Build a CS-Cart plugin which has a mini-API to take your custom item from your webapp and add it into the shopping cart through CS-Cart
If you literally just need to add the item into the shopping cart, and your webapp and CS-Cart are on the same server, you may be able to skirt around CS-Cart and get your webapp to literally just add the item into CS-Cart's shopping cart PHP session
I hope this helps - I'm not mega-familiar with CS-Cart so if there are any factual errors in this I apologise.
Right, I am having a nightmare.
We have been using a service called Fat Free Cart (which has so far been rather good) to build our new eCommerce website.
http://www.fatfreecart.com/
http://www.designti.me/testing/flipstick/index.php
And we have come to the point where we are looking to add postage options.
To my knowledge you cant do this with Fat Free Cart (but if you can then any help would be appreciated)
Can anybody else recommend a cart that is as simple to set up and use as FatFreeCart?
I need to be able to just copy in a line of code where I need to put a buy or Cart button and I also need to be able to get a drop down box with different postage options.
It sounds like FatFreeCart is keeping it's promises, but your application needs more features that go beyond it's scope. I like this "spartan" e-shop very much. It is great for promotion of simple items in any site.
What you could do, would be to set up a "real" e-commerce application, since you are PHP oriented, like osCommerce, Magento or VirtuaMart. Virtuemart is an addon for Joomla. All three offer you a full range of features and a full back-office administrator application that will allow you to make offers, define discount periods and pricing according to criteria like number of items ordered etc.
Now, you can keep your nice website and link your products straight to the appropriate items of the eshop instead of adding FatFreeCart links. This way the user will proceed to complete the purchase.
The other option would be join the E-Junkie.com team and extend FatFreeCart to do what
you think is missing. You should be aware to keep it fat free after the add ons.
I just almost bought a Flipstick...
I am building a site using code igniter. I am developing a custom product catalog using php and mysql.
What is the best way to go about making those products purchaseable online. I thought about writing my own cart, but I am a little worried about how much time that would take.
Most carts I come across online are full fledge inventory systems carts / a whole web site basically. I want to be able to really have full control.
What do you think my better options are? Any advise is welcome!
Don't be afraid of building your own. A shopping cart is a solved problem and there are many, many examples on the net. Just define your requirements carefully before you start: do items in the cart persist between sessions? What happens when an item in cart is no longer available for sale, etc.
If you want to have full control but be able to customize how users have that control, building it yourself is probably the only way to go. Depending on the amount of control you wanted to have, it could be very time consuming.
Search for shopping cart systems online and you can find lists like:
http://webtecker.com/2008/04/22/8-best-open-source-shopping-cart-solutions/
Many have demos available that let you try before you download, and if you find something with all the features you want already, problem solved.