hello friends, i dont have much experience in PHP. i want to create simple shopping cart site with few books products only. i need your help to start this work.can any one tell me how to start and the flow of this site. i have good knowledge of c and c++ and mysql. is there any resources which provide this information? thanks -jigs
There are already many shopping cart systems which are much stable and tested like oscommerce, zencart, y don't try them?
i dont want ready made shopping cart but i want to create it my salves so i can learn php in bepth. that is why i m asking for some resources from where i can learn PHP in depth.
Andy has a point... but if you're really keen, start on paper by designing the table structure and decide how you'll be managing tax, postage etc Read up at www.php.net on some of the security issues with regard to sql injections. Then slowly and carefully start building the pages adding complexity as you go.
if you know how to progran, you can try and error find some free shopping cart, study how its works. If you can understand that, you can create your own. if not, lower down, find something more simple like guestbook. learn how ppl do the script. learn how to query from more than 1 table in one script. learn how to protect your script from sql injection. dont rush to that difficult for you to learn then give up. programming is fun
actually i m computer engineer and i have sound knowledge of programming.i have read PHP books also.that is why i m going to start with this project.thanks for the reply i will try to find it.and post here if u have any nice links for php resources.
You will benefit alot from looking at the existing code at www.sourceforge.net, www.phpclasses.org, www.zend.com and even reviewing existing carts. I'm in the middle of coding a user management module in cakePHP but I'm getting ideas from reviewing the source code of a forum. Cut and paste won't work because the underlying structure is so different but it's useful to see what issues their guys have anticipated and how they've tackled them.