(Beginning PHP 5 and MySQL E-Commerce) serves as a fantastic primer for anyone joining the fray in designing and developing online commerce solutions.- Blane Warrene, Open Sourcery
...helpful in understanding how to achieve these common tasks in building an e-commerce web site.
- Jason Gabriele
Beginning PHP 5 E-Commerce: From Novice to Professional is an ideal reference for intermediate PHP 5 and MySQL developers, and programmers familiar with web development technologies. This book covers every step of the design and build process, and provides rich examples that will enable you to build high-quality, extendable e-commerce websites. Take a peek at an actual book example!
Furthermore, this book covers site building in three phases. Phase one results in a live website, with an attractive interface and fully searchable product catalog. Next, phase two explains adding facilities to increase sales through cross-selling, upselling, and enhancing customer service. Finally, phase three seeks to reduce costs through automated order processing and integrating with other systems via XML Web services.
Author Information
Mihai Bucica - Mihai Bucica started programming and competing in programming contests (winning many of them), all at age twelve. With a bachelor's degree in computer science from the Automatic Control and Computers Faculty of the Politehnica University of Bucharest, Romania, Bucica works as an Outsourcing Project Manager for Galaxy Soft SRL. Even after working with a multitude of languages and technologies, Bucica's programming language of choice remains C++, and he loves the LGPL word.
Cristian Darie - Cristian Darie, currently the technical lead for the Better Business Bureau Romania, is an experienced programmer specializing in open source and Microsoft technologies, and relational database management systems. In the last 5 years he has designed, deployed, and optimized many data-oriented software applications while working as a consultant for a wide variety of companies. Cristian co-authored several programming books for Apress, Wrox, and Packt Publishing, including Beginning ASP .NET 2.0 E-Commerce, Beginning PHP 5 and MySQL E-Commerce, Beginning ASP.NET 1.1 E-Commerce, and The Programmer's Guide to SQL. Cristian can be contacted through his personal website, www.CristianDarie.ro.
PART 1 - Phase I of Development
Chapter 1 - Starting an E-Commerce Site
Chapter 2 - Laying Out the Foundations
Chapter 3 - Creating the Product Catalog: Part I
Chapter 4 - Creating the Product Catalog: Part II
Chapter 5 - Searching the Catalog
Chapter 6 - Receiving Payments Using PayPal
Chapter 7 - Catalog Administration
PART 2 - Phase II of Development
Chapter 8 - The Shopping Basket
Chapter 9 - Dealing with Customer Orders
Chapter 10 - Product Recommendations
PART 3 - Phase III of Development
Chapter 11 - Customer Details
Chapter 12 - Implementing the Order Pipeline: Part I
Chapter 13 - Implementing the Pipeline: Part II
Chapter 14 - Credit Card Transactions
Chapter 15 - Product Reviews
Chapter 16 - Connecting to Web Services
Part 4 - Appedixes
Appendix A - Installing Apache, PHP, MySQL, and phpMyAdmin
Appendix B - Hosting the Web Site
Appendix C - Project Management Considerations
