Spree is open source e-commerce platform based on Ruby on Rails platform, beautifully created by Sean Schofield. Spree features are best, including extensible design, custom shipping logic, SEO friendly, 100% REST!, etc. The backend is very clean, simple and user friendly, we won’t find any difficulty to use it.

If we want to take Spree to advanced apps we don’t need to worry since Spree has the online documentation (including Wiki and Quick Start Guide) and community support. Spree is licensed under New BSD License, now you can try the demo in here.

jCart is a simple shopping cart application made from jQuery and PHP. Because it makes use of jQuery as primary component the shopping process runs in AJAX technology so the user don’t have to refresh every page in making a transaction. Moreover, this application supports full functionality in case the javascript is disabled.

jCart also supports PayPal checkout. You only have to make a little configuration in your jcart-config.php file by adding your merchant ID PayPal. If you are not a PayPal user, you can put a checkout script or your own payment processor on file jcart-gateway.php

Implementation

Here is some results of jCart implementation which can be used for daily life. The implementation scope I did is only modifying the output preview. I only optimized this implementation on Safari and Google Chrome browser. To see how to install jCart you can click here.

In this implementation, there are only 3 files I need to be modified such as: store.php, checkout.php, and jcart.php. Store.php is a script to show available product list and user shopping cart. Checkout.php handles updating data and customers checkout. Jcart.php, on the other hand, is a core script of jCart itself.

Feel free to download this implementation I made but not for:

1. Redistribute it as yours.
2. Sell it.
3. Make a mirror download of it.

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