Beginning PHP and MySQL E-Commerce: From Novice to Professional, Second Edition

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Emilian Balanescu and Cristian Darie

"Beginning PHP and MySQL E-Commerce: From Novice to Professional, Second Edition"

In the
second phase of development, after you create your own shopping cart, you??™ll need to rely only
on PayPal??™s checkout mechanism.
To accept payments, you need to add two important elements to the user interface part of
the site: Add to Cart buttons for each product and a View Cart button somewhere on the page.
PayPal makes adding these buttons a piece of cake.
The functionality of these buttons is performed by secure links to the PayPal web site,
which can be implemented as either forms or specially crafted URLs. Let??™s take a look at both
methods. The following is an example of using forms that represent the Add to Cart button for
a product named Mistletoe T-Shirt that costs $17.99:

method="post">

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Emilian Balanescu and Cristian Darie

"Beginning PHP and MySQL E-Commerce: From Novice to Professional, Second Edition"