Hour 20. Creating an Online Store
In Hour 16, “Building a Simple Shopping Cart,” I provided an example of an online store that demonstrated how one uses session management to create a shopping cart. In this hour, I’m going to extend that example to show how you can use a relational database to store all the data used by a Web site—specifically an online store. In this hour, you’ll look at modified versions of the programs from Hour 16 that interface with a relational database.
In this hour you’ll learn
What the database schema for a basic online store looks like
How to write a catalog script that works with a relational database
How a database simplifies the shopping cart script
How a real-life checkout script works
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