Beginning PHP and PostgreSQL E-Commerce: From Novice to Professional

by Cristian Darie, Mihai Bucica, Emilian Balanescu

Overview

The PHP language and PostgreSQL database server have long offered an ideal blend of practicality and power for both the novice and experienced programmer alike. Yet the continued evolution of both technologies makes them better suited to drive enterprise-class applications than ever before. In Beginning PHP and PostgreSQL E-Commerce: From Novice to Professional, noted authors Cristian Darie, Emilian Balanescu, and Mihai Bucica show you how to take advantage of this powerful duo to build an e-commerce web site, guiding you step-by-step through the process of designing and developing the project.

Each chapter is devoted to a specific new feature. You'll learn how to build an online product catalog complete with pagination features, shopping cart, checkout mechanism, product search feature, product recommendations, administrative features, customer accounts, an order-management system, and more. You'll also learn how to process electronic payments by integrating several popular payment services, including PayPal, DataCash, and Authorize.net, and how to integrate the Amazon E-Commerce Service (ECS).

The book promotes good programming practices, including the separation of presentation code, business code, and data access code using a 3-tier architecture. PDO (PHP Data Objects) is used to connect to the database, and PostgreSQL functions are used to store the data logic. The Smarty templating engine is used to create the presentation layer. For a preview of what this book will teach you, take a look at the HatShop shopping cart demo.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781590596487
Publisher:	Apress
Publication date:	12/27/2006
Edition description:	1st ed.
Pages:	640
Product dimensions:	7.01(w) x 9.25(h) x 0.05(d)

About the Author

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.

Table of Contents

Part I. Phase I of Development.- Starting an E-Commerce Site.- Laying Out the Foundations.- Creating the Product Catalog: Creating the Product Catalog: Searching the Catalog.- Receiving Payments Using PayPal.- Catalog Administration.- Part II. Phase II of Development.- The Shopping Basket.- Dealing with Customer Orders.- Product Recommendations.- Part III: Phase III of Development. Customer Details.- Implementing the Order Pipeline: Implementing the Pipeline: Credit Card Transactions.- Product Reviews.- Connecting to Web Services.- Part IV: Appendixes.- Appendix A: Installing Apache, PHP, MySQL, and phpMyAdmin.- Appendix B: Hosting the Web Site.- Appendix C: Project Management Considerations.