Chapter 13. Example—E-Commerce
In this, the final chapter of the book, I’ll develop one last Web application, an e-commerce site. Despite the recent economic slump and the devaluation of the Web, e-commerce still plays a vital role on the Internet and is a prominent use of PHP and MySQL.
In this example, I’ll design a site for the purpose of selling prints of art. Unfortunately, to write and explain the entire application would require a book in itself, and parts of it would not be applicable to all e-commerce situations. Therefore, the focus in this chapter will be on the basic functionality of the application, teaching the core principles involved with any e-commerce site. Other features, such as user registration and advanced administration, ...
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