Updated: 10/14/2009
Over the years I’ve collected together a list of the tools I use all the time. I know there are lots of other lists like this out there, but, well, they’re not mine!!
I’m going to try to keep adding to this list on a regular basis as I find new tools, or decide to move on from others.
After using many many commerce packages – and WRITING many many commerce packages from scratch, we’ve standardized on Magento Commerce for all new e-commerce sites. It’s an awesome platform, with huge potential for customization and extension. The list of existing modules (plug-ins basically) is very large and growing all the time. This is the way to put up new e-commerce sites, no question about it!
We’ll be posting lots and lots of Magento information in the weeks and months to come as we continue on our journey with this great tool!
So, Ajax being the thing and all, I was hunting for a way to add an item to the cart using an Ajax call in Magento. Recently, I noticed there was a module that apparently does this, but either I hadn’t seen that or it didn’t exist yet when I wrote this, so I hacked my way through it.
PHP isn’t my primary language – I come from the ASP, ASP.Net, C# world, but Magento was compelling enough that I’ve taken the leap. I’m sure there are lots of things I could be doing better/differently here so if you’ve got some suggestions, I’m all ears!
So first I needed an “Add to Cart” page (called – addToCart.php) that could be called from the client. This page returns a result in JSON format. The actual page also returns related items so we can try to cross sell the user, but I’ve removed that in this sample to make it simpler.
