This repository contains all the code about the tutorial: Building a Shopping Cart with Symfony 5.

The tutorial describes the creation of a shopping cart with Symfony, from scratch and step by step:

• Getting Started
• Managing Products
• Creating Cart Entities
• Managing the Cart Storage
• Adding Products to the Cart
• Creating the Cart Page
• Removing Products from the Cart
• Clearing the Cart
• Purging Expired Carts
• Testing the Cart

• PHP 7.2.5+
• Composer
• Symfony CLI
• Docker & Docker compose

Cloning the repository

$ git clone https://github.com/qferr/happy-shop
$ cd happy-shop/

Installing dependencies

$ composer install

Starting Docker Compose

$ docker-compose up -d

Loading fake Products

$ symfony console doctrine:fixtures:load

Launching the Local Web Server

$ symfony server:start -d

The server started on the port 8000. Open the website http://localhost:8000 in a browser.

Adding Products to the Cart

From the homepage, go to a product page by clicking on the View details button. Then set a quantity and click on the Add to Cart button.

Removing Products from the Cart

From the cart page, click on the Remove button for the product you want to remove.

Updating the quantity of products in the Cart

From the cart page, enter the desired quantity for the products and click on the Save button.

Clearing the Cart

From the cart page, click on the Clear button.

Purging Expired Carts

From the project directory, execute the following command in a terminal:

$ symfony console app:remove-expired-command

Configuring a Database for Tests

Create the database and update the database schema by executing the following command:

$ bin/console doctrine:database:create -e test
$ bin/console doctrine:migrations:migrate -e test

For now, the database is empty, load the products fixtures with:

$ bin/console doctrine:fixtures:load -e test

Executing tests

Run the tests with the following command:

$ bin/phpunit