Blane Warrene has a new posting on Open Sourcery today with a review of one of the latest releases in the PHP publication world - Beginning PHP5 and MySQL e-Commerce.

December often provides a little extra time to catch up on my reading, and one of those books this year is the new Beginning PHP5 and MySQL e-Commerce (Apress) by Cristian Darie and Mihai Bucica.

Being in the process of moving some development systems to PHP 5, I have been soaking up texts on what's new with PHP5 as it interacts with Apache, MySQL and the rest of the Linux and Mac OS X atmosphere. This work fit right in, and also serves as a fantastic primer for anyone joining the fray in designing and developing online commerce solutions.

He recommends this book, especially for those just getting started with the e-Commerce world with PHP.

The presentation of a three-tier architecture of presentation, business and data layers offers a concise platform roadmap, especially for new developers, to start on the right footing. While there may be many approaches to architecting a web application -- this method works well for online store solutions small to large.