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What PHP skills do I need to find a job?

Posted: Thu Jun 19, 2008 6:34 pm
by wagtail101
Hi, I am fresh :) from college with an associate degree of Web design. I created several Websites, my friend's site, and a small special schools site. I used HTML/CSS layout/JavaScript/Flash/Photo shop so far. Now that I learned PHP (one course at college), I want to put that skills in my resume.

A friend of my asked me to create a Website for a local cookie/catering shop. That's a good news for me so I can start my career and impress my future employers.

Now my :?: question :?: is, should I create shopping carts by myself? These days, the web hosting sites offer shopping carts and money handling. Do Web shop people just use those shopping carts, or do they create from scratch? Shopping carts are a good PHP practice, so I don't mind creating them. Still I want to know.


Thanks.

Re: What PHP skills do I need to find a job?

Posted: Thu Jun 19, 2008 7:31 pm
by LBmtb
Depends on how customized you want to get with the shopping cart. You're right, it would be great practice. However doing something like zen cart might save yourself some time, although you would have to figure out how to use their template system and such. But they already have reporting, paypal integration, CMS for adding products, etc etc.

Re: What PHP skills do I need to find a job?

Posted: Thu Jun 19, 2008 10:16 pm
by wagtail101
LBmtb wrote: However doing something like zen cart might save yourself some time, although you would have to figure out how to use their template system and such. But they already have reporting, paypal integration, CMS for adding products, etc etc.

Thank you for your reply. Yes, when I searched "shoping cart" on Google, Zen cart is the first result I got. It's a great cart system and free! 8O Yeah, It looks I need to figure out how to use the system. Maybe, this is the way people do. I will upgrade my host (from starter to basic) so that I can use MySQL. I downloaded Zen cart. I will be ready to work on my first e-commerce test site.... :banghead: Thanks again.