Cristian Darie is a software engineer with experience in a wide range of modern technologies. He is the author of numerous books, including his popular ASP.NET C# e-commerce tutorial, his Ajax and PHP tutorial, and his search engine optimization tutorial for PHP developers. Cristian studied distributed application architectures for his Ph.D, and is getting involved with various commercial and research projects. When not planning to buy Google, he enjoys his bit of social life. If you want to say "Hi," you can reach Cristian through his personal website, www.CristianDarie.ro.

Phase I of Development.- Starting an E-Commerce Site.- Laying Out the Foundations.- Starting the TShirtShop Project.- Creating the Product Catalog: Part 1.- Creating the Product Catalog: Part 2.- Product Attributes.- Search Engine Optimization.- Searching the Catalog.- Receiving Payments Using PayPal.- Catalog Administration: Departments and Categories.- Catalog Administration: Products and Attributes.- Phase II of Development.- Creating Your Own Shopping Cart.- Implementing AJAX Features.- Accepting Customer Orders.- Product Recommendations.- Phase III of Development.- Managing Customer Details.- Storing Customer Orders.- Implementing the Order Pipeline: Part 1.- Implementing the Order Pipeline: Part 2.- Processing Credit Card Transactions.- Product Reviews.- Using Amazon.com Web Services.

* PHP is an open-source server-side scripting language, with millions of users worldwide. It is more popular than Microsoft's ASP and ASP.NET. Version 5, out before the end of Q2 of 2004, features new OO-programming capabilities.

* MySQL is the most popular open source RDBMS.

* There are a lot of E-commerce elements, such as credit card transaction processing, that are not easy to learn. This book will provide solid e-commerce solutions for PHP and MySQL developers.

* This will be a good companion book to Apress' 1893115518 Beginning PHP 5 and MySQL: From Novice to Professional by W.J. Gilmore.