Beginning PHP and MySQL E-Commerce ─ From Novice to Professional

Darie (Better Business Bureau Romania) and Bucica (Galaxy Soft SRL) walk through the process of building an online product catalog, implementing the catalog administration pages, accepting payments with PayPal, adding product recommendations and reviews, and establishing secure connections using SSL. A familiarity with PHP 5.0 and MySQL 4.0 is assumed, and an Apache 2.0 web server is used in the examples. Annotation c2004 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

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.