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PHP 7 Programming Blueprints

By : Jose Palala, Martin Helmich
Book Image

PHP 7 Programming Blueprints

By: Jose Palala, Martin Helmich

Overview of this book

When it comes to modern web development, performance is everything. The latest version of PHP has been improvised and updated to make it easier to build for performance, improved engine execution, better memory usage, and a new and extended set of tools. If you’re a web developer, what’s not to love? This guide will show you how to make full use of PHP 7 with a range of practical projects that will not only teach you the principles, but also show you how to put them into practice. It will push and extend your skills, helping you to become a more confident and fluent PHP developer. You’ll find out how to build a social newsletter service, a simple blog with a search capability using Elasticsearch, as well as a chat application. We’ll also show you how to create a RESTful web service, a database class to manage a shopping cart on an e-commerce site and how to build an asynchronous microservice architecture. With further guidance on using reactive extensions in PHP, we’re sure that you’ll find everything you need to take full advantage of PHP 7. So dive in now!
Table of Contents (15 chapters)
PHP 7 Programming Blueprints
Credits
About the Authors
About the Reviewer
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
4
Build a Simple Blog with Search Capability using Elasticsearch

Shopping Cart


Now we will be building a simplified Shopping Cart module which will take advantage of our newly built database abstraction class.

Let's map out the features of the Shopping Cart:

  • Shopping List page:

    • The shopper should see several items with their names and prices

    • The shopper should be able to click on a checkbox beside each item which adds it to the cart

  • Checkout page:

    • List of items and their prices

    • Total

  • Confirmation page:

    • Input the details such as the bill-to address, bill-to credit card number, and, of course, the name

    • The shopper should also be able to specify which address to send the goods to

Building the shopping items list

In this page, we will create basic HTML blocks to show the list of items that a shopper may wish to buy.

We will use the same template system which we had earlier, but instead of having the entire code in one page, we'll separate out the header and the footer and simply include them in our files using include(). We'll also use the same Bootstrap framework...