Apress Beginning PHP and PostgreSQL E Commerce Dec 2006 eBook-BBL

Beginning PHP and PostgreSQL E-Commerce: From Novice to Professional (c) rn by Apress rnrn The type of the release is: eBookrn In the PDF format with ISBN: 159059648X and Pub Date: December 05, 2006rn The size of the release is: 02 disks x 2.88mbrn And released on: 05/05/2007rnrn The PHP language and PostgreSQL database server have long offered an rn ideal blend of practicality and power for both the novice and rn experienced programmer alike. Yet the continued evolution of both rn technologies makes them better suited to drive enterprise-class rn applications than ever before. In Beginning PHP and PostgreSQL rn E-Commerce: From Novice to Professional, noted authors Cristian Darie, rn Emilian Balanescu, and Mihai Bucica show you how to take advantage of rn this powerful duo to build an e-commerce web site, guiding you rn step-by-step through the process of designing and developing the rn project. Each chapter is devoted to a specific new feature. You\'ll learn rn how to build an online product catalog complete with pagination rn features, shopping cart, checkout mechanism, product search feature, rn product recommendations, administrative features, customer accounts, an rn order-management system, and more. You\'ll also learn how to process rn electronic payments by integrating several popular payment services, rn including PayPal, DataCash, and Authorize.net, and how to integrate the rn Amazon E-Commerce Service (ECS). The book promotes good programming rn practices, including the separation of presentation code, business code, rn and data access code using a 3-tier architecture. PDO (PHP Data Objects) rn is used to connect to the database, and PostgreSQL functions are used to rn store the data logic. The Smarty templating engine is used to create the rn presentation layer. For a preview of what this book will teach you, take rn a look at the HatShop shopping cart demo. rn Who This Book Is For:rn Beginning PHP and PostgreSQL E-Commerce: From Novice to Professional is rn aimed at developers looking for a tutorial approach to building a full rn e-commerce web site from design to deployment. However, its assumed that rn you have mastered the basics of PHP and have some experience working rn with relational databases (preferably PostgreSQL). rnrn http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/159059648X/