Build Simple Shopping Cart using PHP, Ajax and MySQL

In online marketing, a shopping cart is a piece of software that facilitates the purchase of a products. So if you want to build a simple PHP shopping cart in your web project, then you’re here at right place. The shopping cart functionality handled with PHP SESSION to add remove products.
In this tutorial, you will learn how to create a Simple Shopping Cart using PHP with MySQL.This is a very simple script, you can copy paste and modify according to your requirement.
Before started to Build Simple Shopping Cart using PHP, Ajax and MySQL, look files structure:
  • build-simple-shopping-cart-using-php-ajax
    • class
      • DBConnection.php
      • Cart.php
    • css
      • style.css
    • images
    • templates
      • header.php
      • footer.php
    • index.php
    • add.php
    • cart.php
    • remove.php
Steps 1: Create MySQL Database Table
So lets start creating a simple Shopping Cart using PHP, Ajax and MySQL.
Step 2: Connect to Database file named DBConnection.php
The code below shows the database credentials
Step 3: Create class
Create a class file named Cart.php inside class/ folder.
  • The Cart class handles the Cart process
  • __construct() — Loads the required DBConnection.
  • getAllProduct() — get all Product.
  • getProduct() — get single Record.
Steps 4: List Products in Shop
In index.php, we will get products details from MySQL database table shop_products and list products in shop.
Steps 5: Add Products to Cart(Manage Cart with PHP SESSION)
create file named a add.php
Make Ajax Request: add product in cart
Step 6: View cart details
In cart.php we will handle functionality to display cart details like Product Name, SKU, Quantity, Unit Price, Price, total etc.
Steps 7: Remove Product from Cart(Manage Cart with PHP SESSION)
create file named a remove.php
Make Ajax Request: remove product from cart
Create files named (header.php and footer.php)
This file contains the header and footer section of the webpage. The Bootstrap library is used to provide a better UI, so, include it in the header and footer section.
header.php
footer.php