NEXCESS Book Offer: Beginning PHP5 & MySQL E-Commerce

Beginning PHP5 & MySQL E-Commerce: From Novice to Professional (Special Offer)

Beginning PHP 5 E-Commerce shows you how to build a full E-commerce website from design to deployment. Guiding you through every step of the design and build process, this book will have you building high-quality, extendable E-commerce websites quickly and with confidence. Take a peek at an actual book example at http://cristian.nexcess.net

This book is primarily aimed at intermediate PHP 5 and MySQL developers willing to learn how to develop quality E-commerce sites. This book is also appropriate for programmers experienced with other web development technologies like ASP.NET or Java, who learn best by example, and want to experience PHP/MySQL development techniques first hand or who need to refer to a quick documentation for a fully developed E-commerce website.

This book shows you how to build a site in three phases. The first phase puts the site live on the web, with an attractive interface and fully searchable product catalog. You can start receiving orders right away, using PayPal's service to handle the shopping cart, checkout, and payment. The second phase adds facilities to increase sales through cross selling and upselling, enhanced customer service, and a better shopping experience. Along the way you'll build your own shopping basket and checkout, but continue to use PayPal for credit card processing. In the third phase, to reduce costs, you.ll find out how to automate order processing, and carry out your own credit card transactions through Verisign PayFlow Pro, and learn how to integrate with other systems using XML Web Services.

About the Authors

Cristian Darie, currently the technical lead for the Better Business Bureau Romania, is an experienced programmer specializing in open source and Microsoft technologies, and relational database management systems. In the last 5 years he has designed, deployed, and optimized many data-oriented software applications while working as a consultant for a wide variety of companies. Cristian co-authored several programming books for Apress, Wrox, and Packt Publishing, including Beginning ASP .NET 2.0 E-Commerce in C# 2005, Beginning PHP 5 and MySQL E-Commerce, The Programmer's Guide to SQL, and Building Websites with the Community Starter Kit. Cristian can be contacted through his personal website, www.CristianDarie.ro.

Mihai Bucica started programming and competing in programming contests (winning many of them), all at age twelve. With a bachelor's degree in computer science from the Automatic Control and Computers Faculty of the Politehnica University of Bucharest, Romania, Bucica works as Project Manager for Galaxy Soft SRL. Even after working with a multitude of languages and technologies, Bucica's programming language of choice remains C++, and he loves the LGPL word.

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