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Beginning PHP and MySQL E-Commerce by Cristian Darie
Posted: Wed Dec 31, 2008 10:41 am
by WOPiersol
Has any one worked through the tutorial in this book? I am in the 13th chapter of the book and all is working, but there are a few things that aren't right. I would like to talk to someone that has worked through it and see if they had the same problems and what corrected them.
Not sure I will buy another book by Cristian. The book has been good and informative but in the book he states for people to feel free to contact him about it and gives his website address. So when I could not find answers on the web or in other books I shot him an email and marked it for return receipt. He read the email, and would not respond. I believe that is kind of crappy. Someone supports you and buys your book, and you can't even point them in the right direction after you asked for comments... Whatever. Good book though.
Thanks in advance.
WOPiersol
Re: Beginning PHP and MySQL E-Commerce by Cristian Darie
Posted: Wed Dec 31, 2008 6:30 pm
by requinix
WOPiersol wrote:I would like to talk to someone that has worked through it and see if they had the same problems and what corrected them.
Do we have to have read the book to be able to help?
Re: Beginning PHP and MySQL E-Commerce by Cristian Darie
Posted: Sun Jan 04, 2009 10:06 pm
by WOPiersol
Well if there was a problem, I would guess not. But if you have not worked the tutorial you would not be able to tell me if following the text gave you the same quirky things. For example, I have followed the tutorial 100% (to my knowledge). The application is working 100%, then we applied some AJAX to update portions of the page without refreshing the page. It works on the index page but not the shopping cart page. But I can not find anything I can done wrong or mistyped. I replaced the updated files with the downloaded code and it has the same errors.
But long and short of it, if you have worked the tutorial you could easily say "Yes, mine did the same thing." or "No, mine worked fine." without comparing 100s or 1000s of lines of code.
Thanks,
WOPiersol
Re: Beginning PHP and MySQL E-Commerce by Cristian Darie
Posted: Sun Jan 04, 2009 10:37 pm
by requinix
What can I say? Sometimes books are wrong. If nothing else, 16 years of school will teach you that.
Have you checked the errata on that guy's site?
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Beginning PHP and MySQL E-Commerce (second edition)
Re: Beginning PHP and MySQL E-Commerce by Cristian Darie
Posted: Fri Jan 09, 2009 8:53 am
by adan_62
Hi,
You are lucky that you are in the 13th chapter. I am in the forth one. I am getting a blank page "The page cannot be displayed": The page you are looking for is currently unavailable. The Web site might be experiencing technical difficulties, or you may need to adjust your browser settings.
This error is not displayed by the error handler. This is a standard Internet explorer error page. If I use the url:
http://localhost/tshirtshop/test.php, I get the correct PHP information page. So the problem is not in my configuration.
I am using the downloaded code for this book. Did you meet this kind of problem ? Any idea ?
Any help ?
Regards