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Beginning PHP and MySQL E-Commerce: From Novice to Professional guides you through a journey in which you build, step by step, a complete e-commerce website. Going through the whole design and build process, you will lay out the foundations with professional code, allowing for future growth. Then you'll continue by adding various features as requested by your client.

You'll learn how to build an online product catalog with shopping cart, checkout, product searching, product recommendations, admin features, customer accounts, an order processing system, and more. You'll also learn how to handle payments by integrating PayPal, DataCash and Authorize.net.

Each feature you add to the website will introduce you to new challenges and theoretical concepts, which are all carefully analyzed and explained. You will gain an intimate understanding of every piece of code you write, which will enable you to build your own powerful and flexible websites efficiently and rapidly with PHP and MySQL.

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