Couffin

A simple shopping basket written in PHP.

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

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Demo

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”.

Praises for Couffin

“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.”

License

Couffin is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of the License, or (at your option) any later version.