: Learning PHP Framework for ecommerce site Are there any books that can teach a good/useful PHP framework to build an ecommerce site? Please recommend.

@Bryan171

PHP 5 e-commerce Development starts by creating a simple MVC-style framework, then continues to teach you how to build an e-commerce system with PHP.

Effortless E-Commerce with PHP and MySQL teaches custom e-commerce development with PHP.

WordPress 2.9 E-Commerce shows how to use PHP, WordPress, and the WP-Commerce plugin to build an e-commerce site.

Joomla! E-Commerce with VirtueMart builds an e-commerce site using Joomla.

Drupal E-commerce with Ubercart 2.x demonstrates e-commerce site builds using Drupal.

Building PHP Applications with Symfony™, CakePHP, and Zend® Framework gives an overview of working with three popular PHP frameworks, with concepts that could be applied to developing a shop.

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@Bryan171

Any particular reason why you're looking for a framework to aid you with this task?

I'd say with the complexity of e-commerce applications (Yes, you can make a 'simple' one, but it's still going to be pretty complicated by the time you're done with frontend/backend, order management, payment gateways, etc etc) that you might want to consider possibly writing your own framework so you fully understand what your code is doing - this way you can also ensure what you're doing is 'secure' - which is pretty key when it comes to money changing hands.

Granted, Magento uses the Zend framework, but it's all heavily customized etc to be their own.

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@Miguel251

The Zend framework can help you with your project. A good book is "Zend Framework in Action". Get it here.

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