PHP shopping carts ... free ? and DW and books ?

[gerry - dergal]

I am not looking for a top end commercial one (such as RawVeg), I am hoping
their is a free one that is pretty basic its more of an enquiry for a parts
website (not e-ordering)

Also, any reccomendations on a very basic book with PHP and DW (for a
friend)

Gerry

[David Powers]

gerry - dergal wrote:

> Also, any reccomendations on a very basic book with PHP and DW (for a
> friend)

"Foundation Dreamweaver MX 2004" - the first half of the book deals with
static sites. The second half (written mainly by me) is a gentle, but
thorough introduction to working with PHP and Dreamweaver.

[url]http://computerbookshelf.com/foundationdw.php[/url]

I was also co-author of "PHP Web Development with Dreamweaver MX 2004",
which starts from first principles, but isn't what I'd call "a very
basic book" because it assumes the reader is familiar with a lot of the
ideas behind working with a server-side language, so moves at a much
faster pace.

--
David Powers
Author, "Foundation PHP 5 for Flash" (friends of ED)
Co-author "PHP Web Development with DW MX 2004" (Apress)
[url]http://computerbookshelf.com[/url]

[gerry - dergal]

Actually, I think the second might be more appropriate - were already at
quite a good point, i.e. got a fully working MySQL catalogue DB, with good
CSS (using DW's built in templates which despite being complex are neat)...
a fully working search etc... I did most of it, but this is helping a mate,
so he wants to be able to admin it!

thanks, I will reccomend it to him...

Any advice on the shopping cart aspect?



"David Powers" <dp@example.com> wrote in message
news:d2285l$ogf$1@forums.macromedia.com...

> gerry - dergal wrote:

> > Also, any reccomendations on a very basic book with PHP and DW (for a
> > friend)

>
> "Foundation Dreamweaver MX 2004" - the first half of the book deals with
> static sites. The second half (written mainly by me) is a gentle, but
> thorough introduction to working with PHP and Dreamweaver.
>
> [url]http://computerbookshelf.com/foundationdw.php[/url]
>
> I was also co-author of "PHP Web Development with Dreamweaver MX 2004",
> which starts from first principles, but isn't what I'd call "a very
> basic book" because it assumes the reader is familiar with a lot of the
> ideas behind working with a server-side language, so moves at a much
> faster pace.
>
> --
> David Powers
> Author, "Foundation PHP 5 for Flash" (friends of ED)
> Co-author "PHP Web Development with DW MX 2004" (Apress)
> [url]http://computerbookshelf.com[/url]

[David Powers]

gerry - dergal wrote:

> Actually, I think the second might be more appropriate
>
> thanks, I will reccomend it to him...

Great. If he plans to buy online, you might like to suggest he uses the
link on my website. That way I get a little more for my effort:

[url]http://computerbookshelf.com/phpdw.php[/url]

If he needs any help with the book, I provide online support in the
Apress forum at forums.apress.com.

> Any advice on the shopping cart aspect?

Not really. I've never delved deeply into shopping carts. There's quite
a good book called "Usable Shopping Carts":

[url]http://japan-interface.co.uk/webdesign/bookshelf.php?cat=15[/url]

It's the fifth item down on that page. The disadvantage with the book is
that it uses hand-coded PHP, rather than Dreamweaver, so it may not fit
the bill for you. On the other hand, judging from the description of
what you're looking for, the Content Management System in Chapter 9 of
"PHP Web Development with Dreamweaver MX 2004" may be all you need. It
deals with a members club, but the members and articles categories can
easily be adapted to products and descriptions.

--
David Powers
Author, "Foundation PHP 5 for Flash" (friends of ED)
Co-author "PHP Web Development with DW MX 2004" (Apress)
[url]http://computerbookshelf.com[/url]