Pizza Palace

Development environment: At some stage you will need a computer to build the site. This means you need either a Windows or Linux machine with PHP, Apache, and MySQL installed. Complete installation and setup instructions for both platforms are covered in Chapter 2. You will also need a text editor to work with PHP files. If you don’t have anything that will color code your PHP, then Wordpad will suffice. However, if you do want something that will make things a bit clearer (and it is recommend if you are going to get involved in this project in depth), you might want to consider investing in something like EditPlus or PHPEdit
• Integration: If you are already running a conventional business, then ideally the aspects of the business should work in harmony to support and augment each other. Customers should be able to approach a real live person on the other end of the Web address to handle their problems or queries—human contact is not entirely redundant. Of course, changes to the business should be reflected on the site as quickly as possible to avoid dissatisfaction. For example, closing down a department without showing those changes on the site could leave a few customers quite angry if they make orders that are not honored. Obviously, one of the biggest tasks is to ensure that the real life part of the business (such as goods storage, ordering, availability, logistics and delivery) reflect the promises and assertions of the site. It is no good building a wonderful site that guarantees overnight delivery, if you are using normal snail mail to deliver goods.