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Secure AjAx SHoppIng cArt
JQuery Mobile Store
is chapter demonstrates methods for securely implementing a shopping cart and
purchasing items through PayPal using a combination of JQuery, AJAX, and PDO in
a JQuery Mobile client.
e main techniques involved are:
• Displaying a catalog of items
• Adding and deleting items to the cart via AJAX
• Safely storing cart values in a session variable
• Validating and sanitizing user input
• Preparing data for PayPal
• Storing purchase data via PDO prepared statements