Newbie question about embeddable online store

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hello234
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Newbie question about embeddable online store

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Hi All,

I've been told PHP is the language to learn for this task, but I wanted to ask the experts (you all) and see what your thoughts are. I'm looking to create an online store where parts of my store can be embedded on other people's websites (similar to what Amazon does with its affiliates). What types of coding knowledge will I have to know for this project and is it possible for someone with only minimal coding experience (some C, C++) could learn the necessary languages to pull this off?

Thanks!
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PHP is probably the most popular server scripting language in use on the web, so, yes, it would be the first choice of many, if not most web developers. Can you learn it? I don't know. Can you learn Spanish? Algebra? I'm not trying to be sarcastic, but it's the same issue. Most people find that PHP is among the easier languages to learn, but that doesn't mean that any one individual is going to find it easy. And then the real challenge is not what language you use for a major project like you described, but rather whether you have the necessary experience in designing the logic of such an application. The language will be the smallest part of the job. I'd recommend that you research existing off-the-shelf software, either open source or commercial. I'm not well acquainted with that field, but I'd be surprised if there aren't dozens of packages that do generally that sort of thing.
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IMHO you need to learn PHP, MySQL and Web Services. I think Web Services are used for the embedding (not sure, but I know that Amazon have several APIs, I was working with one of them recently)
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Yep Amazon does have an API, I have not used it, but I know it is in Zend FrameWork library.
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any thoughts on how much it would cost to get someone to do all this for me?
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I'll do it.
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Post by l.francis30 »

hello234 wrote:any thoughts on how much it would cost to get someone to do all this for me?
Depends.. But you can post your project at getafreelancer or scriptlance if you want freelance to do it for you..
To learn all php things and create a website like this, your 1st website, it needs a lot of time
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