HomePHP Page 2 - Building an E-Commerce Site Part 2: Managing Users with Sessions
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This is the second article in a three-part series dealing with using PHP 4 and MySQL to make a comprehensive e-commerce storefront solution. This article covers session management within the store, user privileges, and a few security concerns.
Before reading this guide, you should have read and completed part 1 of this series. Specifically, you should have the mymarket database created and the product catalog administrative scripts up and running.
If you have not already done so, please read Part 1 of this guide at:
Also, if you want to follow this guide and get a working site, you must use PHP4 because of the built-in session management features. In most of the scripts, we use PHP4 specific features that are not available in PHP3.
NOTE: If you want to get these examples to work in PHP3, you will have to rewrite some of the functions used in the example script files. You need to:
- provide your own session library;
- reorganize all the scripts so that the functions are defined before you call them;
- change all occurrences of <?=$var?> to <?echo $var?>.
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