Effortless e-Commerce with PHP and MySQL (Voices That Matter) 2nd Edition

Larry Ullman's writing is clear and quite nice to read. It seems he has not forgotten that when learning something new, even advanced programmers appreciate a little hand-holding. So many authors of programming books seem to think if they give away actual, working code, us programmers will be little more than lazy sloths simply copying and pasting, and never thinking of our own accord. Truth is, seeing one way it can be done, allows us to envision others, get inspired even, to make it our own. Larry Ullman's books are always inspiring and help me envision a better way to code.This book covers so many topics I sorely needed to have more fully explained, such as custom error handling, prepared statements (when to use what when doing SELECT versus INSERT, etc.), form security, merchant account/payment gateway integration, and lots more.This book is an asset to your personal library.

I'm working on starting my own chocolate webshop, but where to start i had some experience in designing and coding but never ever made a webshop before with great security, catalogs and a great login area.Until i found this book it was great, i have read it all. I'm dutch but i didn't need a dictionary to understand this book it helps tho if you know coding it reads easier but is not entirely necessary. The way Larry talks about php and mysql is easy to read and understand.And thanks to him i will launch a great Chocolate Webshop in 2015!A little word in dutch:Dit boek is geweldig en zeker een aanrader voor iedereen die een webshop wil maken. Het is makkelijk te lezen en te begrijpenhoewel je wel een beetje kennis nodig hebt om de php en mysql te begrijpen zeker niet voor beginners.Het hele boek is in het Engels maar niet met moeilijke woorden elke Nederlander die een beetje Engels heeft gehad op de lagere school begrijpt dit.Amazon and Larry thanks for this book!

Early in this book the author suggests that an already established deep understanding of PHP, Javascript and MySQL will be required to work with this book. Fair enough. However, it would be good to put that on the cover instead of "Effortless."I've got some PHP and Javascript chops. I've working on the web at various depths for over 15 years. However, I don't drink and breathe PHP, Javascript and MySQL. I found this book often just took off without me.There are coding books that provide a background and an overview to provide a base from which one can work. This book certainly is not that. Another good kind of programming book provides sort of modular cookbook recipes, which can be used to learn, and also to do something useful, to establish flexible building blocks of expertise that can be applied to various problems. This book isn't quite that either.The chapters of the book go through very detailed, specific setups, without any flexibility built in. If you know what he's doing, you can follow along.This book is for people who already know how to do the things it describes quite well. It is not for people who want to learn, explore, or do something besides the very specific scenarios it details. It is not for people who think, "I sort of know how to do this, but I want to do something a little different from his example; maybe this book will help me understand."The author has a support site, and he seems to generously be present and helpful there. I think the time and money I spent on this book was perhaps not the best investment in solving the problems I had, but someone else might click with it better.

I'm fairly new to php and mysql so moderate to advanced books never scared me. I always buy some primer on the subject along with more advanced books like this one. Btw, excellent primer books I have is ISBN: 1449319262 and 1430232498.The quality contents/examples is what I like in this new edition. The only negative thing I didn't like is the bold font of php code snippets. They look like a blob of spaghetti.

I have a comfortable understanding of SQL/Database, PHP, MySQL, HTML 5, and CSS 3. This book gives more insights into those, and for a nice feature that was not mentioned in the description: the examples are written using Bootstrap 3! I have been learning the Bootstrap framework for the past few months, so the fact that this book is using it is "icing on the cake" for me.

This book walks you through the entire process of creating a couple ecommerce sites. After reading several php books, I haven't found one that is as packed with best practices as this one. This book also contains the latest security measures. Very much recommend this book.

Clearly describes the requirements for a successful commerce website. Bought this book for the payment section. Compares and clearly describes the pitfalls and advantages of different payment methods. Really enjoy the style of the author. So much easier to understand and thorough than usual software books.

amazing book i would recommend this book to anyone. it teach you step by step how to develop different type of ecommerce site i bought the book just to learn how to integrate credit cards payments to my site and i end up learning some server security tip amazing book