In Chapter 12, you??™ll implement your own
shopping cart in TShirtShop, replacing the PayPal shopping cart you??™ve been using so far.
CHAPTER 11 ?– CATALOG ADMINISTRATION: PRODUCTS AND ATTRIBUTES 360
Phase II
of Development
P A R T 2
?– ?– ?–
Creating Your Own
Shopping Cart
Welcome to the second stage of development! During this stage, you??™ll start improving and
adding new features to the already existing, fully functional e-commerce site.
So, what exactly can you improve? Well, the answer to this question isn??™t hard to find if you
take a quick look at the popular e-commerce sites on the Web. They personalize the experience
for the user, provide product recommendations, remember customers??™ preferences, and
boast many other features that make the site easy to remember and hard to leave without first
purchasing something.
In the first stage of development, you extensively relied on a third-party payment processor
(PayPal) that supplied an integrated shopping cart, so you didn??™t record any shopping cart or
order information in the database. Right now, your site isn??™t capable of displaying a list of ???most
wanted??? products or any other information about the products that have been sold through
the web site because, at this stage, you aren??™t tracking the products sold. Saving order information
in the database is one of our priorities now because most of the features you want to implement
next rely on having this information.
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