• PHP is an open-source server-side scripting language, with millions of users worldwide. It is more popular than Microsoft's ASP and ASP.NET. Version 5, out before the end of Q2 of 2004, features new OO-programming capabilities. * MySQL is the most popular open source RDBMS.

• There are a lot of E-commerce elements, such as credit card transaction processing, that are not easy to learn. This book will provide solid e-commerce solutions for PHP and MySQL developers. * This will be a good companion book to Apress' 1893115518 Beginning PHP 5 and MySQL: From Novice to Professional by W.J. Gilmore.

Autorentext
Cristian Darie is a software engineer with experience in a wide range of modern technologies. He is the author of numerous books, including his popular ASP.NET C# e-commerce tutorial, his Ajax and PHP tutorial, and his search engine optimization tutorial for PHP developers. Cristian studied distributed application architectures for his Ph.D, and is getting involved with various commercial and research projects. When not planning to buy Google, he enjoys his bit of social life. If you want to say "Hi," you can reach Cristian through his personal website, www.CristianDarie.ro.

Zusammenfassung

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 ecommerce web sites. Based around a realworld example involving a web site selling tshirts, 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 ecommerce 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 userfriendly shopping cart.

Other highlights:

• The authors show you how to build a complex, extendable ecommerce 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 thirdparty services such as Amazons affiliate program

Inhalt
Phase I of Development.- Starting an E-Commerce Site.- Laying Out the Foundations.- Starting the TShirtShop Project.- Creating the Product Catalog: Part 1.- Creating the Product Catalog: Part 2.- Product Attributes.- Search Engine Optimization.- Searching the Catalog.- Receiving Payments Using PayPal.- Catalog Administration: Departments and Categories.- Catalog Administration: Products and Attributes.- Phase II of Development.- Creating Your Own Shopping Cart.- Implementing AJAX Features.- Accepting Customer Orders.- Product Recommendations.- Phase III of Development.- Managing Customer Details.- Storing Customer Orders.- Implementing the Order Pipeline: Part 1.- Implementing the Order Pipeline: Part 2.- Processing Credit Card Transactions.- Product Reviews.- Using Amazon.com Web Services.