net, and PayPal Website Payments Pro
(formerly known as VeriSign Payflow Pro)
??? Store credit card numbers securely in a database
This third phase is the most involved and requires some hard and careful work. By the
end of Phase III, however, you will have an e-commerce site with a searchable product catalog,
shopping cart, secure checkout, and complete order-processing system.
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TShirtShop
As we said earlier, we??™re going to build an online shop called TShirtShop (which will sell, surprisingly
enough, t-shirts). Figure 1-1 shows how TShirtShop will look at some point during
the second stage of development.
Figure 1-1. TShirtShop during Phase II of development
?– Tip You can find a link to an online version of TShirtShop at http://www.cristiandarie.ro/phpmysql-
ecommerce-2/. Many thanks go to the folks at Going Postal (http://www.goingpostal.cc) who
allowed us to use some of their products to populate our virtual TShirtShop store.
For the purposes of this book, we??™ll assume that the client already exists as a mail-order
company and has a good network of customers. The company is not completely new to the
business and wants the site to make it easier and more enjoyable for its existing customers to
buy??”with the goal that customers will end up buying more.
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Knowing this, we suggest the building and opening the TShirtShop web site in phases for
the following reasons:
??? The company is unlikely to get massive orders initially??”we should keep the initial cost
of building the web site down as much as possible.
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