Re: eCommerce with PHP and MySQL

Addressed to: Tom Carter <tcarter@roundcorners.com> php-db@lists.php.net ** Reply to note from Tom Carter <tcarter@roundcorners.com> Sun, 11 Jun 2000 16:59:36 +0000 (GMT) > > We're planning to implement a series of eConmerce solutions using PHP > with a db backend. Initially our thoughts were to use MySQL as this > is what we have (successfully) used before for other (non eCommerce) > projects. Are there advantages to using other DB systems (extra > features etc.)? > How big will it get. Some people seem to think you need Oracle for realy big sites. I suspect if you write it within MySQL limits you should be fine till you need to have big iron servers, or big clusters of servers to handle the load. > Also, and I appreciate this is not really a PHP question so please > humour me, how easy (and how would one) is it to integrate automated > credit card/transaction proccessing with the PHP solution (obviosuly > securely ;o) ) > As far as adding SSL to your site it is changes to your web server, you don't see any difference from the php programming point of view. (Well, there are a few more environment variables, but you can ignore them.) Credit card processing is pretty much driven by who you work with to provide verification. You need to decide that before you will know what it will take for programming. You might want to ask you verification canidates about thier php support. Rick Widmer Internet Marketing Specialists www.developersdesk.com