Cart Boxx – Free Open Source RESTful PHP Cart

 

 

 

 

WHAT IS CART BOXX!?

Cart Boxx is a free and open source RESTful PHP shopping cart. Whew, that is a handful. The easier way to explain it is – Cart Boxx is a PHP Cart that also has an API endpoint to support AJAX calls plus mobile applications development.

Cart Boxx is still kind of a skeleton structure at the moment, created by a one-man-army who has limited time… So don’t expect a full-blown e-commerce suite, but you are always free to build on top of it. 🙂

 

LICENSE

Cart Boxx is released under the MIT License – You are free to use it for your own personal and commercial projects, modify it as you see fit. On the condition that there the software is provided “as-is”. There are no warranties provided and “no strings attached” – Code Boxx and the authors are not liable for any claims, damages, or any liabilities.

 

 

DOWNLOAD & REQUIREMENTS

You can download Cart Boxx from Sourceforge. Cart Boxx has not been extensively tested, but it should work well with most modern XAMPP installations –

• PHP 5.6 and above
• MySQL database… Although Cart Boxx uses PDO and should technically work with almost anything else.
• Apache web server, no IIS support at the moment.

 

FEATURES & RESTRICTIONS

• A simple PHP cart that you can build on.
• Has an API endpoint – AJAX friendly and mobile app development friendly; You can create your own own shop front theme with RAW HTML if you want.
• Things are still kind of rough around the edges though…
• No payment methods or payment engine. Yet.
• No shipping methods. Yet.
• Does not have a complete order management process. Yet.

 

 

INSTALLATION

• Create a new database, import cart_boxx.sql in the cart_boxx folder.
• Update database settings and URL_ROOT in core/config.php
• Done! You can access the admin panel at https://your-site.com/admin
• Default admin account -> u: admin@cb.com | p: 123456
• The default API endpoint is at https://your-site.com/api

 

DOCUMENTATION

• Developer’s Quick Start Guide
• All the session vars and definitions
• Base library reference
• Cart library reference
• Catalog library reference
• Database library reference
• Orders library reference
• User library reference
• Cart API reference
• Catalog API reference
• User API reference
• Admin Catalog API reference
• Admin System API reference
• Admin User API reference