Developer.com: Developing a Ajax-driven Shopping Cart with PHP and Prototype | Linux Today

Developer.com: Developing a Ajax-driven Shopping Cart with PHP and Prototype

Written By
Web Webster
Web Webster
Jan 29, 2007

“In recent weeks I’ve been working on an e-commerce project.
Among the project goals included building an Ajax-driven shopping
cart which is intended to further enhance the user’s shopping
experience. In the latest installment of this ongoing PHP series,
I’ll show you how to build a shopping cart using PHP, session
handling, and the Prototype JavaScript library (introduced in an
earlier installment). The cart allows users to add and delete
products from the cart, as well as change cart quantities. And of
course, the interaction is seemingly instantaneous, allowing for
the user to continue shopping without waiting for the page to
reload…”

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Web Webster

Web Webster

Web Webster has more than 20 years of writing and editorial experience in the tech sector. He’s written and edited news, demand generation, user-focused, and thought leadership content for business software solutions, consumer tech, and Linux Today, he edits and writes for a portfolio of tech industry news and analysis websites including webopedia.com, and DatabaseJournal.com.

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