[thelist] Basic PHP Shopping Cart

[Alex Jones]

At 04:08 PM 8/22/2003, Ralph Guzman wrote:
>Alex,
>
>If you are looking for a standalone shopping cart have a look at
>Oscommerce:
>
>http://www.oscommerce.com
>
>I think it has all the features you need and it also has a big
>contribution list where you can find updates or addons:

Ralph, I have looked at OSCommerce but am a bit worried that it has more 
features than I need and could prove cumbersome. Is it easy to just use the 
shopping cart and not use its product catalog side of things?

>http://www.oscommerce.com/community/contributions
>
>If you are looking for a CMS with shopping cart then have a look at
>ezPublish.
>
>http://www.ez.no/

Actually, that is the CMS I am using. All in all I am pretty happy with it, 
but I need more flexibility in the shopping cart...

>Ralph
>
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>Howdy all,
>
>The CMS that we've installed and added content to doesn't appear to meet
>
>our unique needs on the shopping cart side of things. At this point I
>have a couple of options: write a cart from scratch or choose a third party
>cart. As we are on a very tight deadline  I am exploring the idea of a
>third party cart. I would truly appreciate your recommendations for a
>simple cart. I do not want/need a cart that does product management as
>that is already covered by our CMS.
>
>Requirements:
>- PHP/MySQL
>- Easily customized output
>- Ability to define simple shipping logic: local vs. international &
>below a certain price get free shipping
>- Ability to provide multiple shipping options
>- Ability to define tax rate based on destination state (U.S.) - VAT is
>not needed
>- Ability to have three full addresses (shipping, billing, delivery)
>
>Basically I want the user to click a standard submit button on one of
>our product pages to add items to the cart - I would prefer to send the
>variables via POST.
>
>The form is to be e-mailed (within our network) so I do not need any
>form of payment gateways.