Need Help/Suggestions on Getting a Store Started
Posted: Mon Aug 10, 2009 8:00 pm
So I've been toying with PHP for the last couple of months just for personal projects and am looking for something more challenging than working with API's.
I think starting to work on a login system/store would really help me learn a lot more about PHP, organizing a project and securing information.
I'm aware of things like OSCommerce, but I don't fully understand what's going on there just by looking at the code. I think I'd like to build the whole thing from scratch, and am about 99% sure that doing so will be a pretty extensive, time consuming project, especially for a relatively new guy like me, but that's what I want to do, mainly so I can extend my knowledge.
I'm interested in building a store that sells digital content using something like PayPal or Amazon for the checkout process, but I have no idea where to start.
I'd really, really, really appreciate any suggestions for starting points, reading material, examples... I mean, I don't even no how to go about organizing my tables and php files in any kind of standard way.
Anyway, I know it's a broad question... but I really don't know where to start.
I think starting to work on a login system/store would really help me learn a lot more about PHP, organizing a project and securing information.
I'm aware of things like OSCommerce, but I don't fully understand what's going on there just by looking at the code. I think I'd like to build the whole thing from scratch, and am about 99% sure that doing so will be a pretty extensive, time consuming project, especially for a relatively new guy like me, but that's what I want to do, mainly so I can extend my knowledge.
I'm interested in building a store that sells digital content using something like PayPal or Amazon for the checkout process, but I have no idea where to start.
I'd really, really, really appreciate any suggestions for starting points, reading material, examples... I mean, I don't even no how to go about organizing my tables and php files in any kind of standard way.
Anyway, I know it's a broad question... but I really don't know where to start.