Effortless E-Commerce with PHP and MySQL, Second Edition teaches you how to:

  • Think of the customer first, in order to maximize sales
  • Create a safe server environment and database
  • Use secure transactions and prevent common vulnerabilities
  • Incorporate different payment gateways
  • Design scalable sites that are easy to maintain
  • Build administrative interfaces
  • Extend both examples to match the needs of your own sites

 

Table of contents

Introduction
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Part 1: Fundamentals
Chapter 1: Getting Started
Chapter 2: Security Fundamentals
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Part 2: Selling Virtual Products
Chapter 3: First Site: Structure and Design
Chapter 4: User Accounts
Chapter 5: Managing Site Content
Chapter 6: Using PayPal
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Part 3: Selling Physical Products
Chapter 7: Second Site: Structure and Design
Chapter 8: Creating a Catalog
Chapter 9: Building a Shopping Cart
Chapter 10: Checking Out
Chapter 11: Site Administration
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Part 4: Extra Touches
Chapter 12: Marketing and UX Touches
Chapter 13: Adding JavaScript and Ajax
Chapter 14: Using Stripe Payments
Chapter 15: Extending the First Site
Chapter 16: Extending the Second Site
Chapter 17: An OOP Example – See more at:

 

About the Author

Larry Ullman is a writer, Web and software developer, trainer, instructor, speaker, and consultant. He has written numerous highly acclaimed books, which have sold over 300,000 copies worldwide in more than 20 languages. As his readers, students, and co-workers attest, Larry’s strength is converting the technical and arcane into something comprehensible and useful.