Create a Web storefront using PHP and PayPal, Part 1:

Web Store Shopping Carts Ecommerce Internet Solutions: In this tutorial, you prepare for creating a storefront from scratch by setting up a Derby database that houses the information of your storefront. Editing and querying the database is accomplished via PHP data objects (PDOs), as PDOs encapsulate much of the technical and database-specific details on connecting to and executing SQL queries and commands in a database. The owner of our example "Ghastly Computers" has requested an administrative (from here on referred to as "admin") and user entry into the storefront. Adding and editing items via a Web browser makes it easy for administrators anywhere, including the new programmer Ghastly Computers is planning to hire a few states away, to update the content of a storefront and the items contained therein.

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Pouring the foundation database

In this tutorial, you prepare for creating a storefront from scratch by setting up a Derby database that houses the information of your storefront. Editing and querying the database is accomplished via PHP data objects (PDOs), as PDOs encapsulate much of the technical and database-specific details on connecting to and executing SQL queries and commands in a database. The owner of our example "Ghastly Computers" has requested an administrative (from here on referred to as "admin") and user entry into the storefront. Adding and editing items via a Web browser makes it easy for administrators anywhere, including the new programmer Ghastly Computers is planning to hire a few states away, to update the content of a storefront and the items contained therein. User sessions will also be introduced to set up the connection between a user and a shopping cart in Part 2 so that, as users move between areas of a storefront, their shopping carts will be carried with them.

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