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You might be thinking, why on earth does the world need another PHP shopping cart? I certainly would agree with you. Several months ago I was faced with the task of helping my wife switch out of PayPal’s shopping cart. I initially thought that there must be thousands of shopping cart already written, and quickly realized that there were. Unfortunately, they all seemed to be way too complex for a simple site that needed to sell a dozen products and wanted to maintain a tight control on the look and feel. I checked out Zen Cart which I really liked initially. It offers lots of features, but overall is more of a complete store front as opposed to a simple cart.

I only needed a cart that would gather few products, capture the customer information and hand off the transaction to a secure credit card processor such as charge.com.

After a while, I decided that this would be a good opportunity to play around with PHP and CSS and wrote a cart of my own. I named it “Couffin” after 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”.

If you are looking for a simple set of PHP scripts to get a jump start on your next shopping cart project, hopefully you’ll find Couffin useful. Download the source code or see it in action.

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