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PHP 5 e-commerce Development Create a flexible framework in PHP for a powerful e-commerce solution Michael Peacock... PHP 5 e-commerce DevelopmentCopyright © 2010 Packt Publishing All r

PHP 5 e-commerce

Development

Create a flexible framework in PHP for a powerful

e-commerce solution

Michael Peacock

PHP 5 e-commerce Development

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First published: January 2010

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Author

Michael Peacock

Reviewers

Chetankumar Akarte

Tahsin Hasan

Acquisition Editor

Douglas Paterson

Development Editor

Swapna V Verlekar

Technical Editor

Ishita Dhabalia

Indexer

Rekha Nair

Proofreader

Sandra Hopper

Production Editorial Manager

Abhijeet Deobhakta

Editorial Team Leader

Gagandeep Singh

Project Team Leader

Lata Basantani

Project Coordinator

Poorvi Nair

Graphics

Geetanjali Sawant

Production Coordinator

Shantanu Zagade

Cover Work

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About the Author

Michael Peacock (http://www.michaelpeacock.co.uk) is a web developer from

Newcastle on Tyne, UK with a degree in Software Engineering from the University

of Durham After meeting his business partner while studying at Durham, he

co-founded Peacock Carter Limited (http://www.peacockcarter.co.uk), a

Newcastle-based creative consultancy specializing in web design, web development,

and corporate identity Michael loves working on web-related projects and new

business ideas, usually with interests in several companies

He has been involved with a number of books, having written four books: PHP 5

e-commerce Development, Drupal 6 Social Networking, Selling Online with Drupal

e-Commerce, and Building Websites with TYPO3, and acted as technical reviewer

for two others—Mobile Web Development and Drupal for Education and E-Learning.

You can follow Michael on Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/michaelpeacock

I'd like to thank everybody at Packt Publishing, in particular

Douglas Paterson for working with me on building the idea of this

book into a suitable structure; Poorvi Nair for helping to keep the

book on track; Swapna Verlekar, the development editor; and of

course, the technical reviewers, Chetan Akarte and Tahsin Hasan,

who helped improve the quality of the book

My thanks also go to my friends and family, in particular my fiancée

Emma for her support while working on the book

Finally, I'd like to thank you, the reader; I hope that you enjoy this

book, and produce a fantastic e-commerce website of your own I

look forward to hearing your feedback and seeing what e-commerce

sites you come up with!

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About the Reviewers

Chetankumar Akarte is working on PHP since last 5 years He has extensively

worked on small- and large-scale PHP e-commerce, social networking, Wordpress,

and Joomla-based web projects Over the years, Chetan has been actively involved

in "Xfunda Developers Community" and has regularly been blogging on Microsoft

.NET technology at http://www.tipsntracks.com

Chetan received a Bachelor of Engineering degree in Electronics from the Nagpur

University, India in 2006 He likes to contribute on the newsgroups and forums,

and has written articles for Electronics For You, DeveloperIQ, and Flash & Flex

Developer's Magazine

Chetan lives in Navi Mumbai, India You can visit his websites

http://www.xfunda.com and http://www.tipsntracks.com or get

in touch with him at chetan.akarte@gmail.com

I would like to thank my sister Poonam and Jijaji Vinay for their

consistent support and encouragement I'd also like to thank Packt

Publishing and especially my Project Coordinator Poorvi for giving

me the opportunity to do something useful