Building an E-Commerce Site Part 2: Managing Users with Sessions

I've enjoyed these articles thus. One thing that may make it easier on people is if you would strip Control-M's from your files.

The sentence:

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<p><pre><font color=#008000><xmp>This file contains some standard functions that are used by this application.</xmp></font></pre><p>
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should read


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<p><pre><font color=#008000><xmp>The file mymarket.php contains some standard functions that are used by this application.</xmp></font></pre><p>
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Will do for the next article, thanks.

This has been fixed in the article. Thanks.

This has been fixed in the article. Thanks.

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<p><pre><font color=#008000><xmp>Stay tuned for the next part where we look at letting customers (regular users)
to look through the product catalog and order things!</xmp></font></pre><p>
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probably reads better as


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<p><pre><font color=#008000><xmp>Stay tuned for the next part where we look at letting customers (regular users)
look through the product catalog and order things!</xmp></font></pre><p>
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hehe, sorry for the booboo

this article is just great but I can't
figure out which hosting service to use
to try out some of this stuff.

any recommendations? i saw phpwebhosting.com
is that the only one? any free sites?

Best place to test these are on your own computer. You just need PHP4 and MySQL installed. This is pretty easy to do in Linux and in Windows 98/NT, but not 2000 -- there seems to be a bug in the session handling with PHP4 in Windows 2000.
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I'm not aware of any web hosting companies that provide PHP4 support (since it's still in the RC stages).

How about PHP3 and MySQL? None of the sites
that I checked (interland, bizland, easyspace) seem to offer even PHP3
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Any suggestions/pointers?

<a href="http://www.kryogen.com/?x=behost">[ . : : k r y o g e n : : . ]</a>
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They support PHP4 & MySQL

I run Windows 2000 Prof. version w/ Apache 1.3.12 (or IIS), MySQL, & PHP4 RC2. And the scripts worked fine. Your comment made me test it to see, and I had no problems at all.

On my configuration (Windows 2000 + IIS + MySQL + PHP4 RC2) I get an error with this code:


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<p><pre><font color=#008000><xmp><? session_register(); ?></xmp></font></pre><p>
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And this shows up in my event viewer:


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<p><pre><font color=#008000><xmp>The HTTP server encountered an unhandled exception while processing the ISAPI Application '
php4isapi!HttpExtensionProc + 0x394
wam!STR::STR(char const *) + 0x239
wam!DllGetClassObject + 0x808
w3svc!_WamDictatorDumpInfo@8 + 0x2DB
w3svc!HTTP_REQUEST::GetInfo(char const *,class STR *,int *) + 0xD61
w3svc!HTTP_REQUEST::GetInfo(char const *,class STR *,int *) + 0xC39
w3svc!HTTP_REQUEST::GetInfo(char const *,class STR *,int *) + 0xBA1
w3svc!HTTP_HEADERS::FindValue(char const *,unsigned long *) + 0x58B
w3svc!HTTP_HEADERS::FindValue(char const *,unsigned long *) + 0x2D5
w3svc!ADDRESS_CHECK::UnbindAddr(void) + 0x175
w3svc!ADDRESS_CHECK::UnbindAddr(void) + 0xEF
ISATQ!_AtqSpudInitialized@0 + 0x20F
ISATQ!CDirMonitor::EqualKeys(char const *,char const *) + 0x129
+ 0x5286636F
'.
For additional information specific to this message please visit the Microsoft Online Support site located at: http://www.microsoft.com/contentredirect.asp.</xmp></font></pre><p>
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See the PHP Bug database:


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<p><pre><font color=#008000><xmp>http://bugs.php.net/bugs.php3?id=4184&edit=1</xmp></font></pre><p>
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<p><pre><font color=#008000><xmp>http://bugs.php.net/bugs.php3?id=4461&edit=1</xmp></font></pre><p>
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Will the third part discuss payment processing ?

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www.missoulaweb.com is running Apache/1.3.12 (Unix) mod_ssl/2.6.4 OpenSSL/0.9.5a PHP/4.0RC2 on Linux