zacthespack;10985929 wrote:I'm looking for a simple shopping cart system for my site to do away with the order form I use at the moment. I have been updating the site which now links each page of products on the site to a mysql table of those products so that I can then export my product data from my sage system straight to the website.
What I need is a way for a button to display next to each product that once clicked adds said product to a shopping cart, along with how many of the product the customer wants. the customer once finished then 'checks out' adding there contact information etc. to the order and the order is then sent to my via email.
The tricky part is I do not wish payment to be taken this 'shopping cart' would be used just to take orders which will then be processed and paid at a later date.
Any help would be great!
Thanks
Zac
I would use a database shopping cart if you want to be able to retrieve orders at a later date. Link each customer to a cart in a cart table, then you can have a cart_items table where all of your purchased items are stored. Use a foreign key in the cart_items table to link it to the customer's cart, and likewise use a foreign key in the cart table to link it to the customer table. Then you can add an item_paid column to the cart_items table in which you can denote whether or not a cart item has been paid for through a back-end admin panel (which I assume you will be building if you want to retrieve orders and such). Just my $.02, I'm sure some other members here may have better ideas.
