CART CONTENT:

LeftNav->Products->ViewCart will display the content of the shopping cart:

Suppose we decided to buy a second helping of the Chicken Soup above. Update its quantity to '2', then click on the 'update' button at the lower right corner. Note that updating the quantity of a cart item to '0' will drop it from the cart. We also need to know how much Uncle Sam will bite, and the shipping & handling costs. For that choose your state, say California, and 'update':

Again, the familiar two-action will happen here: Cart content gets updated and displayed back with the most current data. Here a refresh or reload of the browser results in a no-op: it will update the record back to its original self!

Note that unlike many shopping cart implementations out there, this one is a very lightweight. The cart content does not go to the database at this point, nor does it generate any cookie traffic between the browser and the server.

At this point you may decide that Uncle California is charging way too much and switch to a different state, but cheating is of no help. Your record will eventually be corrected with the actual state in the shipping address; so don't bother.

On a sidenote --albeit an important one--, the state tax rate and the shipment & handling charges come from the database, however, that particular data put in there by the Bora Builder is not accurate, in fact, random. You are responsible of providing the correct state sales tax rates, and whatever shipment&handling charges you may want to enforce. We will show you how to modify the database later.

Now that we are satisfied with the bargains we found, we need to check out. Click on 'checkout':