That said, the final detail to take care of before launching
a web site is to create its administrative interface. Although visitors will never see this part,
it??™s key to delivering a quality web site to your client.
In this chapter and the following one, you implement a catalog administration page. With
this feature, you complete the first stage of your web site??™s development! Because this page can
be implemented in many ways, a serious discussion with the client is required to get the specific
list of required features.
In our case, we??™ll implement a control panel that allows managing the site??™s departments,
categories, products, and the product attributes. In this chapter, we deal with administering
departments and categories, leaving the rest for Chapter 11. More specifically, in this chapter
we will create features that allow for
??? Adding and removing departments
??? Modifying existing departments??™ information (name and description)
??? Viewing the list of categories that belong to a department
??? Adding and removing categories
??? Editing existing categories??™ information (name and description)
To secure the sensitive pages of your site, such as the administrative section, you??™ll also do
the following:
??? Implement a login form where the administrator needs to supply a username and
password.
??? Learn how to secure the login formand the administrative pages using SSL.
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