Hello all,

I'm looking for a php shopping cart to customise. I could build what I want from scratch, but time is my enemy. Any suggestions will be very gratefully recieved.

What I need is something that can query seperate (custom) tables of data that have already been coded for other purposes.

I have a discography system that I've built for a customer, and they want a shopping cart integrated into it. It doesn't need to have amazing features, but I need to access products from seperate tables without changing those tables too much.

I suppose the ideal would be to have some kind of intermediate table, that stores price and product ID's, and can also direct a class to the correct table for further info.

I guess my only other two requirements would be that I can include a summary of the contents of the cart on other pages, and that it has an interface for some payment service providers, eg Worldpay. Neither of these two requirements above are difficult for me to code myself, so are not neccesities.

Help appreciated!

    Start coding now, if I were you. You're just wasting time looking for answers 🙂

    When it comes to coding, if you want exactly what you want, code it yourself. Otherwise, you're just left with what someone else assumes you want. This is sometimes close enough to pass, but more often then not it's a pain in the ass 2 months down the road.

    It's even harder to find custom solutions that will work on existing infrastructure. Usually anything likea shopping cart will come with its own database structure.

    Seriously, code it yourself. They're not hard.

    dave

      hmm... not very constructive Dave.

      I appreciate that I may end up coding something from scratch, but are you trying to tell me that no-one has ever adapted an open source shopping cart to their own needs, and might have advice on that basis?

      I wasn't looking for an exact fit, just some suggestions about good places to start. I don't think asking was a waste of time.

        The easiest one to customize is probably osCommerce. At least, that's the one I use when I have to customize one... www.oscommerce.com.

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