* 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.
* This best-selling title has comprehensive discussions about PHP 5, MySQL 5, and how these two popular open source technologies work together to create powerful websites. * Updated to reflect the new features found in MySQL’s most significant release to date. Readers are introduced to advanced database features like triggers, stored procedures, and views. They learn how to integrate these new capabilities into their PHP-driven web applications. The book also discusses PHP’s new MySQL extension, mysqli, which is required for MySQL versions 4.1 and higher. * Packed with hundreds of practical examples covering all aspects of web development, including forms management, templating, database integration, Web services, security, and session handling.
This is the fully updated new edition of the popular work that shows readers how to create e-commerce websites using two of the world's most popular technologies: the PHP scripting language and MySQL database. In addition to guiding readers through the creation of a working website using sound enterprise development techniques, the authors take care to provide readers with a variety of alternative implementation solutions. The book has also been updated to reflect the latest development trends, showing readers how to upgrade their shopping cart using Ajax, integrate with Amazon's Web services, and encourage customer feedback through cutting-edge interactive features.
In this comprehensive guide to creating an e-commerce Web site using PHP and MySQL, renowned author Larry Ullman walks you through every step—designing the visual interface, creating the database, presenting content, generating an online catalog, managing the shopping cart, handling the order and the payment process, and fulfilling the order—always with security and best practices emphasized along the way. Even if you’re an experienced Web developer, you’re guaranteed to learn something new. The book uses two e-commerce site examples—one based on selling physical products that require shipping and delayed payment, and another that sells non-physical products to be purchased and delivered instantly—so you see the widest possible range of e-commerce scenarios. In 11 engaging, easy-to-follow chapters, Effortless E-Commerce with PHP and MySQL teaches you how to: • Think of the customer first, in order to maximize sales • Create a safe server environment and database • Use secure transactions and prevent common vulnerabilities • Incorporate different payment gateways • Design scalable sites that are easy to maintain • Build administrative interfaces • Extend both examples to match the needs of your own sites Larry Ullman is the president of Digital Media and Communications Insights, Inc., a firm specializing in information technology (www.dmcinsights.com). He is the author of several bestselling programming and Web development books, including PHP and MySQL for Dynamic Web Sites: Visual QuickPro Guide. Larry also writes articles on these subjects and teaches them in small and large group settings. Despite working with computers, programming languages, databases, and such since the early 1980s, Larry still claims he’s not a computer geek (but he admits he can speak their language).
The first book to show readers how to create a complete e-commerce driven website using two of the most popular open source technologies, PHP and PostgreSQL Adapted from the strong selling Beginning PHP 5 and MySQL E-Commerce, this book is based on a proven and popular instructional model. PostgreSQL, long the second most popular open source database in the world, has seen a significant resurgence in interest throughout 2005 due to software enhancements and considerable capital injections. It stands to reason already strong interest in this database will continue to grow for the foreseeable future.
In this comprehensive guide to creating e-commerce website using PHP and MySQL, renowned author Larry Ullman walks you through every step—designing the visual interface, creating the database, presenting content, generating an online catalog, managing the shopping cart, handling the order and the payment process, and fulfilling the order—always with security and best practices emphasized along the way. Even if you’re an experienced web developer, you’re guaranteed to learn something new. The book uses two complete e-commerce site examples, with various features and goals, to present the widest possible range of e-commerce scenarios. This fully updated and expanded second edition includes an additional and new payment processing example, and also reflects the latest changes in PayPal’s options and methodologies. There are new chapters on marketing-related tools to improve the site and sales, on adding functionality via Ajax, and on implementing e-commerce functionality using OOP instead of procedural code. Effortless E-Commerce with PHP and MySQL, Second Edition teaches you how to: Think of the customer first, in order to maximize sales and customer satisfaction Create a safe server environment and database Use secure transactions and prevent common vulnerabilities Incorporate different payment gateways Design scalable sites that are easy to maintain Build administrative interfaces Extend both examples to match the needs of your own sites
Learn to build e-commerce sites using PHP by installing a server using WAMP, configuring MySQL for your product database, creating your product database and tables, and writing the required PHP scripts for accessing and inserting data into the database. Make an E-commerce Site in a Weekend: Using PHP details how to create shopping carts for your customers and how to set up secure payment and processing options. Even if you are an absolute beginner and don't have much programming experience, you can build a responsive, powerful, and fully featured e-commerce site quickly using the information in this book. You will learn to: Create and maintain your e-commerce website using PHP scripts Create, edit, and update your product database using MySQL Manage visitors to your site, create custom forms, manage session handling, and more Manage shopping carts and shipping information Receive money through different payment modes on the sale of merchandise Who This Book is For: This book is for people who want to quickly set up their first e-commerce site. The book addresses beginners who don’t have a deep experience in programming languages. It teaches how to build professional fully featured e-commerce websites using PHP. The book uses practical, step-by step examples to explain all of the topics required in designing, creating, and managing an interactive e-commerce web site.
Market_Desc: The primary audience includes PHP beginners, although basic HTML knowledge is useful. Experienced programmers whose current website has outgrown traditional static structure will also benefit from this book offering them a cost-effective way to upgrade and make their website more efficient and user-friendly. Special Features: · Major release of PHP and MySQL are expected late 2008 - this book will cover the updated features of PHP 6 and MySQL 6· Written by experts in a informal tone and is easy for beginners to understand· Provides plenty of tips and explanations with useful, real-world examples· A solid, practical guide for a quick understanding of the PHP, Apache and MySQL stack About The Book: PHP, Apache, and MySQL are the three key open source technologies that form the basis for most active Web servers. This book takes the reader step-by-step through understanding each component - using it and combining it with the others on both Linux and Windows servers. Beginning PHP 6, Apache, and MySQL 6 guide the reader through the process of creating dynamic, data-driven sites, using the open source AMP model: Apache Web server, the MySQL database system, and the PHP scripting language. The team of expert authors cover topics including: new features of PHP 6 and MySQL 6, PHP scripting, database management, security, integration, e-commerce functions, and provide a complete syntax reference.
Quickly master dynamic, database-driven Web development–no experience necessary! Even if you’re completely new to PHP, MySQL, and Web database development, this book will guide you through every step of building powerful, database-driven, dynamic Web sites. Direct from the world’s top scripting instructor, Ellie Quigley, PHP and MySQL by Example illuminates every concept with tested code examples, screen shots showing program output, and clear, line-by-line explanations. Classroom-tested in Ellie Quigley’s Silicon Valley training courses and at Marko Gargenta’s Marakana training company in San Francisco, this book takes you from the simplest PHP scripting and SQL querying techniques all the way to dynamic, database driven Web site construction with PHP and MySQL. From simple fill-in forms to program security and debugging, it’s the only PHP/MySQL book you’ll ever need! This book covers Complete PHP fundamentals, including operators, strings, conditionals, loops, arrays, functions, and more PHP QuickStart for more advanced readers–makes you productive with PHP in the space of just fifteen book pages Essential Web development techniques, from file handling to validating user input with regular expressions Powerful PHP features, including user-defined functions and self-processing PHP Forms Day-to-day MySQL administration A complete SQL tutorial for creating queries, retrieving data, and writing data with MySQL Session management and cookies Object Oriented PHP Best practices for using PHP and MySQL together Nearly 100,000 professionals and power users have relied on Ellie Quigley’s books to master scripting languages. With PHP and MySQL by Example, you can, too. And once you’ve become an expert, you’ll turn to this book constantly as your go-to source for reliable answers, solutions, and code. Lab Solutions Solutions to the end-of-chapter labs are available at www.prenhallprofessional.com/title/0131875086.
