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Simple PHP Shopping Cart

May 25, 2017 Editorial Staff 7 Comments

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In this tutorial, we are demonstrating how to make a simple PHP shopping cart tutorial step by step from scratch. This shopping cart application wrote as very minimal and simple for learning purpose. One can take this as an easy shopping cart for any website, but this is purely an idea to create a shopping cart website. More complex websites need a lot of other things like payment gateways, shipping methods, etc. This tutorial will give step by step approach  to build a shopping cart with PHP and mysql and this php e-commerce script  can be used pretty much any level of programmer in php.

Do not use this directly in the production system without making necessary security approaches. This example has a certain number of products, displaying from the database.

We can add each and every product to cart. With help of session, products are storing in the cart. So cart will be empty when we clear the session.

How does PHP Shopping Cart work?

sample php shopping cart

Products listing

First, we are creating the product catalog listing grid. We have all our products in the database with name, price, and SKU. In the below listing we are getting products from the database and iterate using a foreach loop.  Just remember this  tutorial using sessions to store the user selected product details.

Each product has an add to cart button in order to add the product into session cart.

Adding product to shopping cart

When the user presses the Add to Cart button the product details saving into the cart session with SKU and other details. The following code has the action add to cart and it adds the product to shopping cart session.
If we click on the same product several time, the quantity will be incremented.

Removing one or empty all from cart

We allow users to individually remove the item from the cart by pressing the button Delete. Either they can press Empty Cart button to delete all products in one go.

We use unset() function in php to delete the session form cart.

You can download the simple shopping cart in php source code by clicking the below download button

Note: When you learn how to write a simple ecommerce shopping cart with php and mysql, give a try to  ecommerce content management systems such as Magento , Open Cart .They are some of the best shopping cart solutions out there in the open source world. And also they equipped with payment solutions such as Stripe, PayPal etc, which gives you hassle-free configuration options of your store.

Hope you have enjoyed the article about how to build a shopping cart website in simple PHP, please don’t hesitate to share with your friends also don’t hesitate to comment about this simple shopping cart system with php and mysql.


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  1. jawed says

    Nov 28, 2017 at 6:56 am

    thanks…

    Reply
  2. Jess says

    Dec 23, 2018 at 11:59 pm

    hey. thanks for this awesome tutorial! do you have any videos or tutorials about paypal integration or popular payment gateway options for beginners??

    thanks 🙂

    Reply
    • Editorial Staff says

      Dec 26, 2018 at 6:36 am

      Glad you liked it. At the moment we don’t have the article requested, but simple google search you can find a lot of articles.

      Reply
  3. Brisk Logic says

    Jun 23, 2021 at 7:29 am

    great helpful codes

    Reply
  4. Nope says

    Jun 20, 2022 at 12:31 am

    I wish you had a live demo.

    Your sample image shows a total bill of $500 for a thousand dollars worth of merchandise (two @ $400 & two @ 100)

    Reply
  5. Md Anisur Rahman says

    Jul 11, 2022 at 12:13 pm

    Simple and easy to understand for beginners.

    Reply

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