In the previous post, we had created a simple PHP session based shopping cart, now in this article we will integrating this shopping cart with our PayPal express checkout system. Main idea is to let users buy multiple items using PayPal, shopping cart collects the items users want to buy and then they’ll be able to pay for multiple items using their PayPal account.

Shopping Cart is very important part of any online store, it not only allows user to accumulate list of items for final purchase, but also calculates total amount of all the products. Since my last article on PayPal Express Checkout with PHP, I have received few emails asking how to create a simple PHP session based shopping cart for the website. So, keeping that in mind, today we are going to create a shopping cart, which is simple and can be integrated easily in any website that runs on PHP.

You may have seen Facebook’s technique that extracts content of remote URL when a user types a URL in the status text-box filed. In this article, we will try to create a similar type of Ajax based URL content extractor using jQuery and PHP.

In previous article – Loading More Results (jQuery/PHP), the records are loaded when the users clicked on “Load more Data” button, which is great but how about loading database records automatically when user scrolls down to the bottom of the page? The technique can be seen in Twitter, Facebook and several other websites. Let’s use examples from previous article, with some modification we can create Ajax based auto loading script, which loads records when user scrolls to bottom of the page.