Chapter 23. Creating a Shopping Cart Mechanism

In this chapter, you learn the following:

• How to create relational tables for the shopping cart and checkout portion of an online store

• How to create the scripts to add and remove cart items

• Some methods for processing transactions, and how to create your checkout sequence

In this chapter, you integrate a shopping cart mechanism and checkout procedure into the basic storefront display that you created in Chapter 22, “Creating an Online Storefront.” You learn the methods for creating relevant database tables as well as what goes into scripts for adding and deleting cart items. The examples used in this chapter again represent only a few of an infinite number of possibilities to complete these ...

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