PHP Project for Beginners (Book/CD-Rom)

Most professional web based projects are structured, documented and executed using the AMP programming stack i.e. Apache as the Web server, MySQL Community Server as the data store and PHP as the programming environment of choice.

PHP Project For Beginners shows how to build and use the AMP programming stack to develop a structured, documented, modestly sized project. It walks you through building and documenting a Book Management and Sales System [featuring a Shopping cart integrated with a payment gateway].

Key Topics

• Apache 2.2
• PHP 5.3
• MySQL 5.5
• jCart 1.2
• jQuery 1.1.4
• SwiftMailer 4.0.6

Features and Benefits
Serves as a ready reference, with several add-ons and technologies, covering modestly sized project containing a Backend with Master and Transaction data entry forms and a Frontend with application homepage and the shopping cart all built using the PHP

Illustrates real project documentation including Case Study, Business Requirements, Software Requirement Specifications, Data Dictionary, Table Definitions and Directory Structure, End User Manual and Software Design Document

What You'll Learn?

• Shopping Cart [using jCart] integrated with a Payment Gateway for accepting payments using Credit Cards [Paypal Checkout]
• Tag Clouds
• Session Management
• Dispatch Emails [using SwiftMailer]
• BLOB to store images and PDF files
• Access based User Management and Restricted page access protection
• Text Suggest
• Password Strength Indicator
• Captcha
• RSS Feeds [using magpierss]