Books such as Beginning PHP and MySQL 5:
From Novice to Professional, Second Edition (W. Jason Gilmore. Apress, 2006) do a good job at preparing you
to build your first e-commerce web site.
So far, we have dealt with theory regarding the application you??™re going to create. It was
fun, but it??™s going to be even more interesting to put into practice what you??™ve learned up until
now. The code in this book has been tested with
??? PHP 5.2
??? Apache 2.2
??? MySQL 5
?– Caution The code is most likely to be compatible with newer versions of the mentioned software, but it
won??™t work with versions of PHP older than PHP 5.
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Most of this project should work with other web servers as well, as long as they??™re compatible
with PHP (see http://www.php.net/manual/en/installation.php). The URL rewriting feature
makes use of mod_rewrite, which is an Apache module. If you decide to use another web server,
you may need to make changes to the URL rewriting code you??™ll find in Chapter 7. Apache, however,
is the web server of choice for the vast majority of PHP projects.
Getting a Code Editor
Before writing the first line of code, you??™ll need to install a code editor, if you don??™t already have
a favorite on your machine. Many free editors are available, and there is an ever longer list of
commercial editors. The one you use is a matter of taste and money.
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