Simple cart is an open source java script cart application that exclusively work on the client side which then connects to a payment gateway like PayPal or Google wallet depending on the developers choice, yes ecommerce in minutes!
“No databases, no programming, no headaches. A simple javascript shopping cart that you can setup in minutes. It’s lightweight, fast, simple to use, and completely customizable. All you need to know is basic HTML.”
I am going to implement Simple cart to build up a simple one page shopping cart application that would allow users to pay via PayPal, the application will comprise of a CSS file, a favicon, an index page and of course a SimpleCart.js
This simple one page can be used as a template and replicated as many times as possible depending on a developers needs, all image files will be hosted externally from other location such as website/FTP server, for this example I am extracting all test images from my Google Drive.
Fig 1: Directory structure without any images
The directory structure as see above is quite simple and unique, the CSS file will implement the the overall page layout, colour, fonts and CSS background images only while the index page will exclusively be dealing with the products extracted from Google drive.
Fig 2: Extracting image URL from Google drive
As seen above individual URL for each image is randomly generated by Google drive and they differ from the page URL (page URL and image URL). To get the image URL right click the image and select “Copy image URL”, implement this URL into your HTML code for ever image source.
N/B Mind the URL https://docs.google.com once the upgrade takes place to the new URL https://drive.google.com the enhanced security applies and this method won’t work.
There is a another method of which you can extract the image links by making use of Google Sites under Attachments, where you can get individual links to images in the cloud.
Fig 3: Complete application with dummy swappable items 1-8
Fig 4: Adding items to shopping cart
Fig 5: Connecting to PayPal for payment processing
Thank You.
Al-Kathiri Khalid 