- Site created by Ryan McHenry as an assignment for MIS
424 at Western Washington University.
- All product information is dynamically generated using PHP.
- Product information is stored in an Access database.
- Server-side includes are used for all components that are used more
than once (such as the search/browse and Author scripts, as well as
the header and footer).
- Home Page
- "Recommended Reads" are randomly selected from the
database.
- The browse menu is dynamically generated from the database using a SQL query that shows
only the current book categories.
- Book descriptions are truncated at 250 characters.
- Search/Browse response page
- The search function searches book titles, descriptions and
categories fields in the database.
- Count of books matching the query is retrieved by the SQL statement.
- Responds gracefully to searches with no matching items.
- Product page
- Book authors are retrived using a function.
- Thanks to Amazon.com (the world's greatest on-line bookstore) for the use of its
icons, book pictures and book descriptions.
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