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Create an Amazon storefront using PHP, Part 2: Build a shopping cart

Also, learn the ins and outs of creating a collectibles shop

Tyler Anderson (tyleranderson5@yahoo.com), Freelance Writer, Stexar Corp.

Tyler Anderson graduated with a degree in computer science from Brigham Young University in 2004 and is currently in his last semester as a master's student in computer engineering. In the past, he worked as a database programmer for DPMG.com, and he is currently an engineer for Stexar Corp., based in Beaverton, Ore.

Summary: This is Part 2 of a two-part tutorial that constructs an Amazon storefront using PHP and the Amazon E-Commerce Service (ECS). This tutorial shows how to create a shopping cart, a "browse for similar items" feature, a specialty theme shop, and a collectibles shop.

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Date: 01 Nov 2005
Level: Intermediate
PDF: A4 and Letter (514 KB | 32 pages)Get Adobe® Reader®

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For a series of tutorials designed to broaden your PHP skills, see "Learning PHP," Part 1, Part 2, and Part 3.
"Boost application development with Amazon Web Services, Part 1" provides an overview of Amazon Web Services (AWS). AWS exposes raw product information and key parts of Amazon technology to third-party developers for use in their applications.
"Boost application development with Amazon Web Services, Part 2" is the second in a series on creating applications with Amazon Web Services and, in this installment, you can learn how to implement a Web service by using the Amazon Simple Queue Service.
Download and customize your own Amazon recommended products panel.
Get started with ECS at Amazon Web Services. Get news, technical resources, and related links.
Not surprisingly, Amazon sells a book titled The Web Developer's Guide to Amazon E-Commerce Service .
For more information about PHP SOAP, see the PHP manual: SOAP Functions.
Back parameters for Amazon Web Services are available at General Parameters to all Operation Requests.
The golden handbook on the Amazon E-Commerce Service (ECS) is Amazon Web Services WSDL File.
Learn more about using WSDL with SOAP by reading "Using WSDL in SOAP applications."
Learn about making secure Web services transactions in "SOA programming model for implementing Web services, Part 7."
For more information about Web services, including IBM's Web services tools, see New to SOA and Web services.
For an excellent developerWorks article on PHP, Web services and SOAP, read "Access an enterprise application from a PHP script."
Visit the developerWorks Open source zone for extensive how-to information, tools, and project updates to help you develop with open source technologies and use them with IBM's products.
Visit the developerWorks SOA and Web services zone for extensive information.

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