An article I wrote titled “Creating a Shopping Cart Class using Object-Oriented Programming in PHP” was just published online by Peachpit Press. This article, which goes nicely with my “Advanced PHP and Object-Oriented Programming: Visual QuickPro Guide” book, explains how to use more recent features of PHP, such as the Standard PHP Library (SPL), to create a great, reusable shopping cart system. Just two classes will give you all the functionality you need!
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In this edition…
- About This Newsletter
- On the Road => Speaking at Boston PHP
- On the Road => True North PHP Conference
- On the Web => Recursive Software Development Teams
- On the Web => The Yii Book
- On the Blog => Processing Payments with Stripe
- Q&A => How do I Make a Web Site Profitable?
- Larry Ullman’s Book News => “The Yii Book”
This entry is part 2 of 8 in the series Processing Payments with Stripe
When you go to use any payment system for the first time on a project, you’ll need to create a test account. As with almost every step of the process, Stripe again makes this ridiculously easy. In this post I’ll explain how to create a test account in Stripe, and how that process is different than the other payment systems I’ve worked with, in a couple of ways. If you’re not currently planning on using Stripe, you may want to read my first post in this series, which explains how Stripe works and what its pros and cons are.
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It’s three in the morning, and I’ve just arrived at my hotel in Instanbul, Turkey. It took 49 hours of travel to get here. I haven’t really slept in 37 hours. My one piece of luggage is nowhere to be found, which means that I don’t have my suit, laptop cords, laptop remote, or business cards. The presentation is in 8 hours. I have 8 hours to make up for two days without a good night’s sleep and to go shopping for presentable clothes. Oh, and did I mention that I’m deathly uncomfortable with public speaking?
Surprisingly, the presentation is going to go okay, in part because I had the good fortune to have read Scott Berkun’s “Confessions of a Public Speaker.” That may sound like hyperbole, but it’s true.
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This entry is part 1 of 8 in the series Processing Payments with Stripe
I cannot state this more clearly: you should be thinking about using Stripe for every e-commerce project you do. Period. Exclamation mark. Although Stripe is just over a year old now, it’s quickly made a name for itself as an excellent payment solution that everyone should at least consider using.
I first heard about Stripe a few months ago, and have since used it on a couple of projects. In this first part of an exhaustive series, I’ll introduce Stripe for those not yet using this great service. In subsequent posts, you’ll learn everything you can ever possibly need to know to use Stipe today. Well, almost everything.
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