In the Beginning PHP and PostgreSQL E-Commerce: From Novice to Professional, noted authors Cristian Darie, Emilian Balanescu, Mihai Bucica and show you how to take advantage of a powerful duo to build e-commerce web sites, guides you step-by-step through the process of designing and developing the project. Each chapter is devoted to a specific new feature. You will learn how to build an online product catalog complete with pagination features, shopping cart, checkout mechanism, product search feature, product recommendations, administrative features, customer accounts, order-management systems, and more. You will also learn how to process electronic payments by integrating several popular payment services, including PayPal, DataCash, and Authorize.net, and how to integrate the Amazon E-Commerce Service (ECS). This book promotes good programming practices, including the separation of presentation code, business code, and data access code using 3-tier architecture. For a preview of what this book will teach you, view a demo shopping cart HatShop. Who This Book Beginning PHP and PostgreSQL E-Commerce: From Novice to Professional aims to developers looking for a tutorial approach to building e-commerce web site management from design to deployment.