Creating ecommerce website project using PHP Laravel framework

There are lots of ecommerce/shopping cart solutions available in the market . Some are available from WordPress' Woocommerce, Magento, Open Cart, Prestashop. They are ready made CMS or plugins. If we consider deep customisation as per client custom requirement, It could be a more tedious task to accomplish this. So, lots of companies choose PHP framework. The no.1 PHP framework in current Web Development in Laravel. Laravel provides robust application development with a fully secured way . Using PHP Laravel, we can easily customise anything . Company also chose Laravel for ecommerce because of its feature customizable. It is also better performance if we compare with any CMS . Today in this tutorial , i will cover in details of starting an ecommerce Laravel project/application from scratch. All Packages found on https://packagist.org (for core php, laravel ,symfony ,zend framework etc) Only Laravel packages found on https://packalyst.com/ For our tutorial we will be using this shopping cart package

1) Run below command to install this package

- Open config/app.php and add this line to your Service Providers Array

- then add this line to your Aliases in same file

2) Put 'add to cart ' form inside view files of product listing after 'Cost' i.e

resources/views/includes/product_loop.blade.php (for home page latest product) resources/views/products/product_details.blade.php

{{csrf_field()}}

3) Also create cart.blade.php views file under resources/views/products and put below code

 @endsection 

4) Now create cart.blade.php inside resources/views/includes and put below

Note : you should have jquery file inside section in layout/master.blade.php ex:

5) Put below on routes/web.php file

6) Create a Controller ShopController.php then functions add_to_cart ,cart .

Now open the website and click on the 'add to cart' button to test . If you are looking to hire PHP Laravel Developer, freelancer in Delhi, Noida, India. Visit here .

Setup Checkout Page

On this tutorial series of Laravel ecommerce from scratch, we have already setup of basic ecommerce using cart package . Now here we will create checkout page .

1) Put below button in cart.blade.php found under resources\views\products

2) Put below in route file routes/web.php

3) Create a 'checkout' function in ShopController.php as shown below

also call below use Auth;

4) Create view file checkout.blade.php inside resources/views/products/

and put below code

In this way we setup or checkout page . We will create paypal payment gateway on next tutorial of this series. You can also visit here Laravel website developer Delhi.