phpshop

A Simple PHP Shopping Cart

What is phpShop?

phpShop is a PHP-powered shopping cart application. It is released under the GNU General Public License. The primary purpose of phpShop is to provide a simple shopping cart solution that is easy to customize to suit any purpose. phpShop has less features that many other shopping cart applications, but is generally easier to customize. All that is required to effectively customize phpShop is a basic knowledge of HTML, PHP, and SQL.

To keep up with phpShop status, please see the SourceForge project page.

System Requirements

phpShop is written in PHP and therefore requires the PHP: Hypertext Preprocessor. phpShop also requires a database; phpShop currently supports MySQL for this purpose.

Why phpShop?

The original developers of phpShop needed to build a shopping cart web site. A search for an open source solution was conducted and it was found that several solutions were available. However, they found that many of the solutions were much too primitive. Other solutions were fairly complete but much too complicated to learn since they used their own tag language or were based on early CGI scripting languages. And most importantly, the solutions were dificult to customize. What the developers really needed was a shopping cart that:

was easy to customize.
had source code that was easy to understand.
was based on a programming language that was easy to learn.
was easy to design new layouts in a web page design program.

phpShop is easy to customize. The phpShop source code is easy to understand. phpShop is based on PHP. It is easy to design new layouts using a web page design program.

phpShop Features

Over the years, the developers have been tempted to cram just about every feature ever thought of into phpShop. However, a final decision was made to keep things simple and to not extensively increase the feature set. Thus, the developers have limited themselves to maintaining a stable set of features in the code base. The current list of features are as follows:

Use of CSS-based themes
Easily integrated with Dreamweaver for layout design
Shopping cart per visiting shopper
Minicart visible for shoppers as they browse site
Simple search tool for finding products
Category based navigation of store
Show current specials
Sales statistics
Order management and processing
Manage multiple order status types
Update order statuses
WYSIWYG editing of product descriptions
Unlimited number of products
Display products in thumbnail and full size
Unlimited number of product categories
Unlimited number of product attributes
Able to display multiple prices per product
Pricing based on shopper groups
SKU based product listings with SKU’s at the product attribute(s) level
Easy to use web based store administration
Database driven for dynamic store maintenance
Administrative user management
SSL template driven admin and storefront pages
Upload category, product, and store images via web browser
Multiple shipping addresses per shopper
Separate shipping and handling charge calculation
Customizable zone based tax calculation (city/state & country/region)
Ability to create shopper groups
Order management with customizable order status types
Email notifications of orders
Live credit card processing through payment processors
Shoppers can view orders with status
Ability to set tax rates for multiple countries, states and cities.
Shoppers registration
Shoppers have secure account access to view current and previous orders
Shipping address book for storing multiple shipping or billing addresses
Zone based shipping methods

Download

You can download phpShop at SourceForge.