14. 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 Web sites, e-commerce still plays a vital role on the Internet and is a prominent use of PHP and MyBSQL.
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. Furthermore, some aspects of e-commerce—like how you handle the money—are extremely particular to each individual site. Trying to demonstrate such a process would be a waste of space. With these restrictions in mind, the focus in this chapter is on the core functionality of an e-commerce site: populating ...
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