Peter Wooley, Web Developer

In order to create a truly useful Shopping Cart sysetm, fellow design Tyler Sticka and I realized modularity was key. Keeping functionality separate from presentation as well as content, meant that a given system could be used for any number of eCommerce purposes.

Together, we developed two projects: Backabit, a potential online retro gaming store, and BitCart, a modularized shopping system developed for developers.

BitCart was the underlying layer of structure that powered Backabit. Utilizing some of PHP and MySQL’s abilities, we were able to create such features and infinite category depth and true error catching—no matter the location of the error, BitCart could be alerted to the error and inform the user without embarrassing and potentially compromising database errors.

Utilizing a mock namespace, BitCarts functionality could work underneath the Backabit site without getting in the way.