Chapter 4. The Shopping Cart

Anyone who's ever done any shopping, either on the Internet or off, understands the concept of a shopping cart. It allows customers browsing your products to aggregate some products from your catalog and then, once they've gotten everything they want to buy, go through the checkout process with all the items in their shopping cart.

In this chapter, we're going to create a shopping cart on our site, to which users can add the products in our catalog. We're going to create the shopping cart page, where they can review their selections, adjust any purchase quantities, or remove any items before beginning the checkout process. In doing so, we'll take a much closer look at the Django templating system and what you can do ...

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