Building a Shopping Cart with Symfony 5

2 min readDec 23, 2020

For the first time, I wrote a tutorial to learn the popular Symfony Framework by creating a simple shopping cart from scratch. I’ve been developing with Symfony for more than 8 years and I think it’s time for me to share my experience with you through this series of articles.

The tutorial describes the creation of a shopping cart with Symfony 5 step by step:

Introduction | Building a Shopping Cart with Symfony

Welcome to my first tutorial to learn the popular PHP Symfony Framework by creating a simple Shopping Cart from…

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Getting Started | Building a Shopping Cart with Symfony

Before coding, we need to set up the working environment and make sure that everything is working well. Create a new…

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Managing Products | Building a Shopping Cart with Symfony

A shopping cart without products does not make sense. In this part, to simplify the project, we will load fake products…

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Creating Cart Entities | Building a Shopping Cart with Symfony

Throughout the tutorial, we will talk about a cart as an Order. It's an Order that is in progress, not placed yet…

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Managing the Cart Storage | Building a Shopping Cart with Symfony

Each user will have their own cart. As soon as a product is added to the cart, an Order is created in a database and…

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Adding Products to the Cart | Building a Shopping Cart with Symfony

In this step, we will handle the form on the product detail page: Use the Maker bundle to generate a form class: $…

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Creating the Cart Page | Building a Shopping Cart with Symfony

The cart page will allow the user to manage the products it wants to purchase. The user will be able to: Update the…

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Removing Products from the Cart | Building a Shopping Cart with Symfony

So far, the Remove button has no effect. As we have multiple submit buttons and the default button is Save, we need to…

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Clearing the Cart | Building a Shopping Cart with Symfony

In the same way as the Remove button of the cart, we will use the form events to manage the Clear button of the cart…

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Purging Expired Carts | Building a Shopping Cart with Symfony

The carts are saved in the database. It is, therefore, necessary to purge the expired carts in order to avoid keeping…

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Testing the Cart | Building a Shopping Cart with Symfony

The last step is to test the cart page. We will check that all of the cart features we have developed are working. This…

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Hope you enjoy the ride. I tried to respect the best practices and use the base concepts of Symfony to allow you to reuse code and create your projects independently.

Happy Holidays 🎄

Building a Shopping Cart with Symfony 5

Introduction | Building a Shopping Cart with Symfony

Welcome to my first tutorial to learn the popular PHP Symfony Framework by creating a simple Shopping Cart from…

Getting Started | Building a Shopping Cart with Symfony

Before coding, we need to set up the working environment and make sure that everything is working well. Create a new…

Managing Products | Building a Shopping Cart with Symfony

A shopping cart without products does not make sense. In this part, to simplify the project, we will load fake products…

Creating Cart Entities | Building a Shopping Cart with Symfony

Throughout the tutorial, we will talk about a cart as an Order. It's an Order that is in progress, not placed yet…

Managing the Cart Storage | Building a Shopping Cart with Symfony

Each user will have their own cart. As soon as a product is added to the cart, an Order is created in a database and…

Adding Products to the Cart | Building a Shopping Cart with Symfony

In this step, we will handle the form on the product detail page: Use the Maker bundle to generate a form class: $…

Creating the Cart Page | Building a Shopping Cart with Symfony

The cart page will allow the user to manage the products it wants to purchase. The user will be able to: Update the…

Removing Products from the Cart | Building a Shopping Cart with Symfony

So far, the Remove button has no effect. As we have multiple submit buttons and the default button is Save, we need to…

Clearing the Cart | Building a Shopping Cart with Symfony

In the same way as the Remove button of the cart, we will use the form events to manage the Clear button of the cart…

Purging Expired Carts | Building a Shopping Cart with Symfony

The carts are saved in the database. It is, therefore, necessary to purge the expired carts in order to avoid keeping…

Testing the Cart | Building a Shopping Cart with Symfony

The last step is to test the cart page. We will check that all of the cart features we have developed are working. This…

Written by Quentin Ferrer