What is the best programming language for online shopping carts?
Posted by adminMay 27
Shadowhack asked:
I am working on building an online shopping cart that needs to be able to reflect changes to quantity, adding/subtracting products and calculate shipping; the basics of a shopping cart. Which programming language do you recommend?
Maybe I should clarify, I am sort of making a table in the shopping cart, that when you enter in the item code and quantity it produces the price and adds the total. I am familiar in coding C++ but I know that is not a web-based programming language, would PHP be a good language to use?
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I am working on building an online shopping cart that needs to be able to reflect changes to quantity, adding/subtracting products and calculate shipping; the basics of a shopping cart. Which programming language do you recommend?
Maybe I should clarify, I am sort of making a table in the shopping cart, that when you enter in the item code and quantity it produces the price and adds the total. I am familiar in coding C++ but I know that is not a web-based programming language, would PHP be a good language to use?
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Did you take a look at oscommerce? It’s free and well built. It does all the stuff you mentioned and the some.
It’s php based.
You can change more than the css too… If you don’t like the layout you can download an “STS” which allows you to design your own template and then just stick in the functions.
If you go take a look, don’t forget to check out the “contributions” on the site (where you can find the STS)… They allow many useful add-ons, enhancements, etc.
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Well there is no such thing as a “Best” programming for a web based shopping cart. Personally I am a big fan of PHP and MySQL.
However, based on your question Im going to assume that you are not an expert programmer that is prepared to fully develop a custom shopping using any web based programming language. Building a shopping cart yourself is a real challenge for any programmer, especially when you get to the huge problem of credit card processing and how to go about it.
There are many free and open source shopping cart solutions available. I would recommend:
Zen Cart is a very in depth and powerful shopping cart system with lots of customized solutions and plug ins available. Its free of charge, open source and great for any shopping solution.
Os Commerce is the worlds most popular open source shopping cart, it is somewhat generic looking but it is a simple set up and it gets the job done.