Effortless E-Commerce with PHP and MySQ

by Larry Ullman

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Genres: Software

384 pages, Paperback

First published October 21, 2010

About the author

Larry Ullman is a writer, Web and software developer, trainer, instructor, speaker, and consultant. He has written 23 books and numerous articles. His books have sold over 350,000 copies world wide in more than 20 languages. As his readers, students, and co-workers can attest, Larry’s strength is in Translating Geek into English: converting the technical and arcane into something comprehensible and useful.

Reviews

[Dave Brown · Rating 4 out of 5]

This is great book to keep your skills sharp. It assumes that you have a working knowledge of back-end development, so it's going to be over your head if you're new to PHP. I particularly enjoyed the work with various MySQL techniques (prepared statements, etc.). Ullman provides great discussion of security considerations in e-commerce, and there's hands-on experience with PayPal, Authorize.net and (best of all) Stripe.

I disagree with some of Ullman's coding practices (personal preferences). My biggest complaint is that the template he uses for the second site built in the book is not web standards compliant. However, since the purpose of the book is not the front-end development, something needed to supplied, so this is a minor issue.

This is a worthwhile read for any developer working in the e-commerce space.

[أحمد زبيدة · Rating 2 out of 5]

لا أعرف إن كنت سأكمل الكتاب أم لا والمؤكد أنني لن أشتري نسخته الورقية .. وذلك بسبب ترددي بين الجانب الجيد وهو ندرة فكرة الكتاب المبنية على تقديم الخبرة العملية وليس العلمية من خلال العمل على مشاريع خطوة خطوة وبين الجانب السيء وهو أسلوب mysqli المستخدم الآخذ في الإنحسار أمام pdo وبسبب تقطع أسلوب الكتاب وإنتقاله بركاكة من الشرح إلى الكود والعكس. الكتاب نادر في فكرته سيء في طرحه.