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[Clandestine]

Alright, im the type of person that needs as much detail as possible in tuts. And i been looking around for a shopping cart tutorial and ive tried a couple and i cannont grasp it. Im having a really hard time with it. Can anyone help me or point me in the right direction of a GREAT A++++++ shopping cart tutorial? I guess shopping carts are supposed to be really simple. I tried this tutorial like 3 or 4 times and i keep getting confused http://www.php-mysql-tutorial.com/

w/e im just going to sleep on it my brain is about to burst right now

-Devyn

[rc69]

If i remember right, you're semi-new to php, in which case i would not recommend trying to take on a making a shoping cart, with or without a tutorial. The concept of them is rather easy, but when you get down to the code, and security issues, it's hell. Ask tiki, he's ran into quite a few problems (do a forum search, you'll see what i mean).

Also, the only shoping cart "tutorial" i know of is a script that paypal provides to people looking to use their service. I highly do not recommend using it if you don't have a really good grasp of php.

[Indigo]

Rc69 stole the words right out of my mouth!
I got an offer just today to make a shoppingcart-system, and I turned it down immediately - It's just too hard!

My advice would be to work quite the lot on news- and other publishingsystems, and really get to know php better. When you've made a really good system with lots of functions, you might be able to do something like that.

Personally I have a few quite good login-systems, news-systems and such, and I probably won't try the shoppingcart-stuff in at least half a year. But good luck if you want to give it a try anyway

[Clandestine]

thanks for the tips. Yes im very new at php, and man is shopping carts frustrating. Ill just tell the person that wants me to make one that im too new at php and its really to hard for me to do atm.

thanks again

-Devyn

[tiki]

www.illicitfashion.com Took me four months to build it, so if your on a timeline, I suggest not doing so.

I used these 2 tutorials for some guidance.
http://www.devshed.com/c/b/PHP/17/ (Building an Ecommerce site)
http://www.phpwebcommerce.com/

[Donna]

Clandestine, on Mar 18 2006, 07:51 AM, said:

Alright, im the type of person that needs as much detail as possible in tuts. And i been looking around for a shopping cart tutorial and ive tried a couple and i cannont grasp it. Im having a really hard time with it. Can anyone help me or point me in the right direction of a GREAT A++++++ shopping cart tutorial? I guess shopping carts are supposed to be really simple. I tried this tutorial like 3 or 4 times and i keep getting confused http://www.php-mysql-tutorial.com/

w/e im just going to sleep on it my brain is about to burst right now

-Devyn

we have a tutorial at 13dots: http://www.13dots.co...?showtopic=4607

It's not for beginners, I suggest you use a ready made such as zen cart or something similar since you have little knowledge in this area.

[dEcade]

I recommend looking at this for your shopping cart: http://www.pixel2life.com/tutorials/PHP_Co...Shopping_Carts/

Well I guess Donna's link will work I think it is the same as the only tutorial in the SC category any way.

You can also check out this http://www.pixel2lif...oding/Security/ for security stuff.

dEcade