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JavaScript

Posted by Mauro Bonucci
Mauro Bonucci
5,953 Points

Ajax shooping cart

Hi there, hope someone could guide me the steps in what im trying to acomplish, im creating a shooping cart in php, but i liked to enhance the aplication, for example i liked to add products in same page without the browser refreshing, my only question is how can i save data from a product in javascript to later to get and use this data to checkout?

1 Answer

Nick Ocampo
Nick Ocampo
15,661 Points
Nick Ocampo
Nick Ocampo
15,661 Points

Each product would be an object and you would store each product the user has added into an array (in JSON format). So if you have an add product button on each product, the chosen product would be pushed to an array and then asynchronously posted to the server where your PHP code can parse it out and store it in a database.

At the same time, the user's shopping cart is using AJAX to read that JSON file and show the user what he currently has on his shopping cart.