🚀 Release: Auth & Cart Integration Fix (v5.0.2)

🚑 What’s Changed in v5.0.2

This patch release addresses a critical integration issue between authentication and cart management, and ensures consistency in API method usage.

✅ Improvements

• 🔐 Switched the password change endpoint from PUT to POST across both frontend (api.js) and backend (Api.php) to ensure consistent and expected behavior.
• 🛒 Implemented automatic cart creation during user registration by updating the AuthService and CartDAO layers.
• 🧩 Added necessary dependencies and imports to support the new cart creation flow.

🧑‍💻 Contributor

• 🚑 Auth & Cart logic fix by @invader237 in #36

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🔗 Full Changelog: v5.0.1...v5.0.2

🚀Release: API & UX fix (v5.0.1)

🚑 What’s Changed in v5.0.1

This patch release focuses on improving API request consistency, enhancing user experience in the header, and fixing a URL redirection issue.

✅ Improvements

• 🔁 Switched HTTP methods from DELETE to POST for product and favorite removals in both frontend (api.js) and backend (Api.php) to ensure proper request handling and improve consistency.
• 🧠 Improved header script reliability by introducing a waitForElement utility, ensuring DOM elements are fully loaded before manipulation.
• 🔀 Fixed a broken redirection in index.html by replacing an absolute URL with a relative path, enhancing compatibility across environments.

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🧑‍💻 Contributor

• 🚑 API and UX fix by @invader237 in #35

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Full Changelog: v5.0.0...v5.0.1

🚀 Release: Profile Page, Favorites & Checkout Improvements (v5.0.0)

🚀 Release: Profile Page, Favorites & Checkout Improvements (v5.0.0)

This release brings a major update to the platform’s user experience with the introduction of a profile page, favorites management, and a refined checkout flow. It also includes UI enhancements and invoice functionality to improve post-purchase interactions.

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✅ What’s New

👤 Profile Page

• New dedicated user profile section:
  • View and edit personal information
  • Change your password securely
  • Access and manage your list of favorite products

❤️ Favorites System

• Add or remove products from favorites:
  • Available directly from product cards and detail pages
  • View your full list in a dedicated favorites page
  • Easily clear your favorites in one click

🛒 Checkout Flow

• Enhanced end-to-end purchase experience:
  • Real-time order summary with total updates
  • Delivery method and address input
  • PayPal integration for seamless payments
  • Confirmation page with redirect options

📄 Invoice Handling

• View detailed order information
• Generate and download invoices as PDF

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💄 UI & UX Enhancements

• Improved global styling and layout consistency
• Better responsive behavior across all devices
• Hover effects and button interactions added
• CSS clean-up for better maintainability

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🔧 Behind the Scenes

• Refactored JavaScript structure for clarity and modularity
• New API methods for favorites, orders, and user data
• Standardized variable names across backend (e.g., English naming in user registration)

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📦 What's Changed

• 🚀 Functional Enhancements: Profile Page, Checkout Flow, Favorites, and More

Full Changelog: v4.0.0...v5.0.0

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🧪 Try it out and let us know what you think — this update lays the groundwork for an even more intuitive and personalized e-commerce experience!

v4.0.0

🛍️ Release: Full Checkout Experience & Improved Cart Functionality (v4.0.0)

This release brings a fully functional purchase flow, allowing users to browse products, manage their shopping cart, and complete orders smoothly from start to finish.

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✅ What You Can Do Now

• Add products to your cart from the homepage or product detail page.

• View and manage your cart:

  • See product details, prices, and quantities.
  • Update item quantities or remove products.
  • Clear the entire cart if needed.

• Proceed to checkout:

  • View a full order summary with real-time totals.
  • Select a delivery option and provide a delivery address.
  • Pay securely via PayPal.

• After purchase:

  • Access a confirmation page.
  • Choose to return to the homepage or (soon) view your order history (feature in progress).

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🔧 Additional Improvements

• Product cards now display more information and a default image when needed.
• Cleaner, more maintainable JavaScript with improved structure and naming.
• New API endpoints for cart, user, and delivery data handling.
• Better responsive design across product, cart, and checkout pages.

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📦 Full Changelog: Compare v3.0.1...v4.0.0

Feedback is welcome — try it out and let us know how the experience feels!

🚀 v3.0.1 Product details & shopping cart

🛍️ Release: Product Details View & Partial Cart Integration

This release introduces the product detail view feature and lays the groundwork for full shopping cart functionality.

✨ New Features

• 🧾 Product Details View
  Users can now view detailed information for each product, including available colors, sizes, quantity selection, and dynamic price updates.

• 🛒 Partial Cart Integration
  Initial cart functionality has been implemented: The cart page displays added items, but product quantity updates and item removal are not yet available — these features will be completed in upcoming releases.

🔧 Improvements

• Refactored JavaScript code for better structure, naming consistency, and maintainability.
• Standardized API interactions for cart and product-related operations.
• Improved responsive design for product pages and cart layout.

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Let us know if you encounter any issues or have feedback to help us improve!

v2.0.1 🚀 Product Display & Filtering: Configuration Fix

🚑 Hotfix: API Connection and Product Display Configuration

This pull request includes a hotfix along with new features of the v2.0.0 release:

🚑 Hotfix:

• Fixed configuration issues affecting the entire API connection.

🔐 User authentication:

• Fully implemented login and registration functionalities.

🎨 Product display and filtering:

• Dynamic product display with filtering options.

Let me know if you have any suggestions or feedback! 🚀

v2.0.0 🚀 Product Display & Filtering

🚀 New Features

This pull request introduces the following updates:

• 🔐 User authentication: Fully implemented login and registration functionalities
• 🎨 Product display and filtering: Dynamic product display with filtering options

Let me know if you have any suggestions or feedback! 🚀