E-Commerce PHP Tutorials

Shipping and Tax Calculations
In this article by Michael Peacock, you will learn about how to process orders for shipping and tax calculations, once your e-commerce store has received the purchase order. The article includes the following topics: * How to calculate shipping costs based on Product, Weight, Location, and "Shipping rules" * About third-party shipping APIs * How to integrate shipping and tracking notifications on orders * How to integrate tax costs into our system

Integrating paypal buy now button with your database
Insert Paypal's buy now buttons to your website. Make those buttons dynamic and integrating with your website and your shopping cart.

Integrating paypal buy now button
Insert Paypal's buy now buttons to your website. Make those buttons dynamic and integrating with your website and your shopping cart.

Learn how to implement Shopping Cart
Create a real-life storefront application from design to deployment and explore all the major aspects of the Zend Framework. This Chapter helps readers in creating the shopping cart Model, Controller, and Views.

How to Build a Shopping Cart using CodeIgniter and jQuery
In this tutorial, we're going to take advantage of this new class, and write a shopping cart system, with a touch of jQuery added in.

A Shopping Cart Class
First, we need to define the properties and behavior of a shopping cartclass. This shopping cart will be kept fairly simple for demonstration purposes,but will certainly be sufficient for use and expansion.

Non-default Magento Themes
In this chapter readers can view non-default themes in Magento, and will learn to make the best use of those themes in order to provide a better experience to their customers.

Creating Categories and Attributes with Magento
The combination of products, presentation, and service makes our store unique. Before adding products, we need to make some decisions about how we will organize our site. A few minutes of planning now can save us hours of work later. This Chapter focuses on creating categories and attributes, a necessary step before you can build your catalog of products. (pdf file, install Acrobat Reader to view this tutorial)

Google Checkout Integration for PHP
Using Google checkout buying from stores across the web becomes simple and also facilitates you to keep track of all the orders.The Google Checkout's fraud protection policy protects you against all the unauthorized purchases made via Google Checkout. Another advantage is that the Google Checkout does not share the history of the purchasers with other sellers.With Google checkout your email is well protected and is kept confidential. Tracking down your purchase history list is also simple.

The Winestore Shopping Cart
In this tutorial, we introduce the shopping cart developed for the online winestore. The shopping cart is typical of those used in online stores: the user can add items to the cart and manage the quantities of the different items. The solution we outline is scalable and practical. The cart data is stored in the winestore database tables, and only one session variable per user is required to track the cart's identity.

PHP Shopping Cart Tutorial
This tutorial explains how to create a shopping cart script with PHP and MySQL.

Setting Up Your Own Shopping Cart
When you want to start with this tutorial you should know how to use sessions and cookies. You should also have a user system. Making a shopping cart is very easy, but always a hurdle. It's always good to set up a good plan. This because you want to make sure that it fits your costumer needs. Not everyone will need a lot of functions. Just saving, ordering and listing products is enough for most of the e-commerce websites.

Building a Shopping Cart Class in PHP
An introduction to building a class in PHP using a shopping cart as an example.

CyberCash
This article explains how to create an interface to CyberCash in PHP, called CyberClass. A duplication of CyberCash's standard API, CyberClass is object-oriented and includes automatic configuration.