Chapter 15, Marketing, SEO, and Customer Retention, discusses hints and tips for effectively marketing and promoting websites and e-commerce stores with online marketing techniques, sea
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Chapter 11, Taking Payment for Orders, introduces payment processing to the
framework, covering different modes of payment and various post-payment
steps involved
Chapter 12, User Account Features, walks through the development of a customers
area where they can see as well as edit their orders and profile information
Chapter 13, Administration, walks through the development of an administrators area
where they can see orders, products, and settings, and add, edit, and remove these
Chapter 14, Deploying, Security, and Maintenance, looks at deploying our site using
the framework into a live environment and examines the security and maintenance
concerns, introducing different ways to enhance security of our framework and to
restore a live site from a backup
Chapter 15, Marketing, SEO, and Customer Retention, discusses hints and tips for
effectively marketing and promoting websites and e-commerce stores with online
marketing techniques, search engine optimization, and customer retention strategies
Appendix A, Interacting with Web Services, explains how we may interact with other
e-commerce-related web services, such as Google products, Google Analytics,
Amazon web services, and eBay developer center, in order to target new markets,
or to make tasks easier for us
Appendix B, Downloadable products, illustrates how to extend our store to allow
downloadable products
Appendix C, Cookbook, goes through a number of useful code snippets to enhance the
framework and our store
What you need for this book
In the course of this book, you will need the following software utilities to try out
various code examples listed:
Apache 1.3 or above (2 recommended)
Apache mod_rewrite module
MySQL 5.0
PHP 5.0 (5.2+ recommended)
The above can be installed using a package such as WampServer 2.0 for Windows
For development, a text editor is all that is required, though one with syntax
highlighting would be beneficial
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Who this book is for
If you are a web developer, or anyone looking to increase your understanding
of e-commerce site development, this book is for you Primarily aimed at PHP
developers, it is suitable for any web developer interested in enhancing their
e-commerce knowledge, or developers looking to move towards PHP
Intermediate knowledge of PHP development and object-oriented programming is
assumed, and basic knowledge of e-commerce principles will be of benefit too
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<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Strict//EN"
"http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-strict.dtd">
<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" xml:lang="en" lang="en">
<head>
<title>{title}</title>
<meta http-equiv="content-type"
content="text/html;
charset=iso-8859-1" />
<meta name="description" content="{metadescription}" />
<meta name="keywords" content="{metakeywords}" />
</head>
<body>
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relevant lines or items are set in bold:
SELECT v.name AS product_name, c.ID AS product_id,
(SELECT GROUP_CONCAT( a.name,' AV ', av.ID, ' AV ',
av.name SEPARATOR ' -ATTR -' )
FROM product_attribute_values av,
product_attribute_value_association ava,
product_attributes a
WHERE a.ID = av.attribute_id AND av.ID=ava.attribute_id
AND ava.product_id=c.ID ORDER BY ava.order ) AS attributes,
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p.image AS product_image, p.stock AS product_stock,
p.weight AS product_weight, p.price AS product_price,
p.SKU AS product_sku, p.featured AS product_featured,
v.heading AS product_heading,
v.content AS product_description,
v.metakeywords AS metakeywords,
v.metarobots AS metarobots,
v.metadescription AS metadescription
FROM content_versions v, content c, content_types t,
content_types_products p
WHERE c.active=1 AND c.secure=0 AND c.type=t.ID
AND t.reference='product' AND p.content_version=v.ID
AND v.ID=c.current_revision AND c.path='{$productPath}'
Any command-line input or output is written as follows:
Mysql –u username –p databasename < /home/junipert/backup.sql
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Tips and tricks appear like this
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we are going to build a flexible e-commerce framework using PHP, which can be
extended and modified for the purposes of any e-commerce site
In this chapter, you will learn:
The business logic behind e-commerce
Why (and when) you should use your own system over an existing product
The benefits of a "framework"
About existing e-commerce sites and products
e-commerce: Who, what, where, why?
e-commerce, or electronic commerce, is the sale and purchase of goods or services
through electronic means In our case, this electronic means is the Internet There are
so many different applications of e-commerce on the Internet, including:
Online shops selling products, such as Amazon, or the online counterparts to
Brick 'N Mortar stores
Online auctions, such as eBay
Online services/web services such as BaseCamp, or subscription-based
websites
An overview of e-commerce
e-commerce is an incredibly popular way of doing business, so let's look at who is
using e-commerce and what they are using it for
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