INSIDE CRE Loaded: Vol.1 The Essential Blueprints

by David Graham, Kerry Watson

GET THE INSIDE STORY The Advanced Programmers' Manual you have been waiting for. David Graham, former Project Manager for CRE Loaded, and Kerry Watson, author of the osCommerce Manuals Series and the CRE Loaded Manual, team up to give you everything you want and need to know on the subject. Comprehensive, detailed information about what's inside the program, why it works the way it does, and how it affects performance and behavior of the program. Includes Architecture, Design, Development, Debugging, Customization. WHO THIS BOOK IS TECHNICAL readers and programmers with intermediate to advanced web and PHP experience. THIS BOOK 1. What is CRE Loaded? CRE Loaded defined, history, roots of the project, significant features and milestones, forums, and development site CRE Forge. 2. Essential Background HTML, Apache, MySQL, PHP, Dynamic content, JavaScript, Ajax, Cascading Stylesheets. 3. Ecommerce Ecommerce defined, supporting services, service delivery implications, gateways, remote and local services, local and remote payment & shipping options, API's, implications for site management. 4. General Page Header, footer, InfoBoxes, page content, page body, Main Page, Admin page components, product page components, module system structure, sort order implications. 5. How CRE Loaded An Overview of directory structure, inclusion file storage, file configuration, language system, coding considerations including register globals. 6. The CRE Loaded general database issues, MyISAM vs. InnoDB engines, Limit checking, data type issues, query-related issues, table issues, primary and 7. Customer & Order module system overview, methods & classes, legacy modules, the shopping cart class, shipping, payment & order total modules, checkout success modules, building custom modules. 8. CRE Loaded Templates and about template systems, BTS vs. STS vs. ATS, system structures, template installation, modifying purchased templates. 9. CRE Loaded the customization environment, adding new files, template customization, quick template modifications, the HTML Output function. 10. CRE Loaded Integration RCI, RCO, RMS. A mandatory tool for every CRE Loaded programmer.

402 pages, Paperback

First published February 22, 2008