com shopping carts
from your PHP code by using the Amazon.com API. If you??™re really into integrating Amazon.com into your web site,
you should study the AWS documentation carefully and make the most of it.
Summary
In this chapter, you learned how to access Amazon.com E-Commerce Service using REST and
SOAP. You will be able to use the same techniques when accessing any kind of external functionality
exposed through these protocols.
Congratulations, you have just finished your journey into learning about building
e-commerce web sites with PHP and MySQL. You have the knowledge to build your own customized
solutions, perhaps even more interesting and powerful than what we showed you in
this book.
Chapters 1 through 11 represented the first stage of development, where you established
the basic framework for the site and implemented all the essential site features. After finishing
Chapter 11, you could launch the site and start accepting and processing orders from your
customers.
Specifically, in Chapters 1 through 3 we talked about e-commerce and the particular
e-commerce site that we would build: TShirtShop. We listed the open source programs needed
for this project and proceeded with installing and configuring the necessary software. You also
learned about the three-tier architecture
In Chapters 4 through 6, we created the tshirtshop database with MySQL and phpMyAdmin
and fully implemented a basic product catalog.
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