Couffin

This set of scripts constitute a good starting point for anyone who wants to create a simple shopping experience on a PHP based web site. They provide functionality to add items into a shopping cart, capture user information and forward to a 3rd party payment processor.

The main benefits are:

• No database required
• Simple shopping experience for up to a dozen products
• Object Oriented design (within PHP 4 limits)
• CSS style semantically correct
• Easy integration with 3rd party payment processor
• Supports downloadable soft goods

Get the source

Get or fork couffin on Github.

Demo

Try a live demo of the shopping cart.

In case you were wondering, “couffin” is a French word for a sturdy yet simple basket made of woven straws, often used to shop at open air markets in Provence. It’s pronounced “ku-fn”.

License

Couffin is licensed under the MIT license

Your shopping basket is _amazing_ and has inspired with the one I’m writing at the moment, which will access a MySQL db. Not only is the UI beautiful the coding is elegant and beautiful as well. A wonderful solution.