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Beginning PHP and MySQL E-Commerce: From Novice to Professional, Second Edition covers every step of the design and building process involved in creating powerful, extendable e-commerce web sites. Based around a real-world example involving a web site selling t-shirts, you'll learn how to create and manage a product catalog, build and integrate a shopping cart, and process customer accounts and PayPal/credit card transactions.
With the e-commerce framework in place, authors Emilian Balanescu and Cristian Darie show you how to integrate advanced features sure to set your web site apart from the competition. You'll learn how to expand your catalog using Amazon Web Services, optimize the web site for the search engines, and take advantage of Ajax to build an even more user-friendly shopping cart.
Other highlights:
- The authors show you how to build a complex, extendable e-commerce web site using sound development practices.
- This second edition has been updated to take advantage of a more flexible templating system, and new chapters cover Ajax integration and search engine optimization.
- The text goes beyond basic product and customer management, showing you how to integrate product reviews, process payments using both credit cards and PayPal, and expand your web site catalog using third-party services such as Amazons affiliate program.
What you’ll learn
- Build an extensible e-commerce web site using sound development techniques.
- Increase sales through proven techniques such as cross-selling, upselling, and enhancing customer service offerings.
- Expand your product and service offerings by integrating with reseller programs such as Amazon Affiliates via XML web services.
- Take advantage of search engine optimization techniques to make your web site more easy to find.
Who this book is for
This book was written for individuals seeking to build e-commerce web sites using the PHP language and MySQL database.
About the Author
Cristian Darie is a software engineer with experience in a wide range of modern technologies, and the author of numerous books. Cristian is studying distributed application architectures for his PhD, and is getting involved with various commercial and research projects. When not planning to buy Google, he enjoys his bit of social life. You can reach Cristian through his personal website at http://www.cristiandarie.ro. Emilian Balanescu is a programmer experienced in many technologies, including PHP, Java, .NET, PostgreSQL, MS SQL Server, MySQL, and others. He currently works as a Wireless Network Administrator at accessNET International S.A. Romania, a company which provides fixed wireless access services operating a point-to-multipoint digital radiocommunication network with national coverage. His latest project in this position was developing an AJAX-enabled real-time Network Management System (using SNMP, Perl, PHP, and PostgreSQL) used for remote debugging, monitoring system performance, and isolating and troubleshooting system problems. You can reach Emilian at www.emilianbalanescu.ro.
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3 of 3 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
This book really is not for anyone with no PHP knowledge. Even basic PHP will not be enough. The problem is that the code supplied, to integrate SMARTY with the application, has bugs in it. These are not easily fixed. In my opinion, web designers with enough knowledge to use this book effectively will be able to achieve 90% of the objectives set out, by using forums and blogs freely available on the internet, if there are gaps in their knowledge.
There are some useful elements, on installing xammp etc but again these are not worth paying for.
There are some useful elements, on installing xammp etc but again these are not worth paying for.
5 of 6 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
The tutorial process in this book broke down by chapter 4, which only covers the very simple first steps. After spending 2-3 days researching and resoolving the bug(s), I finally moved on to chapter 5, and have now discovered that there is an inherent bug with the database implementation used / recommended by the author, and that I am unlikely to progress further.
Hilariously the database stored procedure cache bug only exists on the windows platform which the author has based the entire tutorial on, and the bug is even documented in Chapter 5, which states that a solution can be found in the books on-line Errata page. It is not. I have submitted an Errata report to the publisher, but have heard nothing, and the page remains blank.
The book also contains much repetition and advocates the use of a lot of 3rd party PHP extensions and tools rather than pursue a much more sensible basic low level code approach.
Don't waste your money on this.
Hilariously the database stored procedure cache bug only exists on the windows platform which the author has based the entire tutorial on, and the bug is even documented in Chapter 5, which states that a solution can be found in the books on-line Errata page. It is not. I have submitted an Errata report to the publisher, but have heard nothing, and the page remains blank.
The book also contains much repetition and advocates the use of a lot of 3rd party PHP extensions and tools rather than pursue a much more sensible basic low level code approach.
Don't waste your money on this.
Format:Kindle Edition
The best solution I found was to install php starting from 5.3 (5.2 simply won't work with the PDOs and hence the aformentioned bug) and then replace all the smarty code with plain old php and html. I managed it in a week and got rid of all those .tpl files, mirroring them with a php template that also makes a call to its presentation object using a utility function similar to the smarty plugin. Then, separating out the admin and customer checkout functionality from the main store front by creating sub directories under presentation will simplify things greatly as that never ending GET check in the Link file disappears and you can then actually focus on a cleaner structure and flow.
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I'm starting to loose patience with this book but I'm sticking with it for the time being.
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Published 14 months ago by D. Watts
Top site with Php et Sql
Très fort ce livre. En quelques pages vous suivez et apprenez à developper un site e intelligent et complet. En plus vous apprenez à utiliser Smarty. Read more
Published 24 months ago by Vignaux
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I decided to buy this book because I wanted to gain insight into how professional developers created e-commerce sites and thought that I would be able to build upon my introductory... Read more
Published on 10 May 2010 by Simon Houlding
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