Chapter 23. Creating a Shopping Cart Mechanism

In this chapter, you will integrate a shopping cart mechanism and checkout procedure into the basic storefront display that you created in Chapter 22, “Creating an Online Storefront.” You will see the methods for creating the relevant database tables as well as the 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 tasks and are meant as working examples rather than the definitive guide for building an online store.

In this chapter, you will learn

  • 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 ...

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