E-Commerce-Website

Description

E-Commerce-Website was my first big project. As specified in the project name, it's an e-commerce website designed and built by myself when I was in the last year of my IT degree (2021).

NB: Before going further I would like to specify that this was an academic project, which means that is not a 100% complete and functional project, a lot of improvements could have been made since I worked on it.

E-Commerce-Website contains two sides; the customer side and the administration side.

The customer side enables users to:

• Register
• Log in
• Choose and select items to add to the cart
• Manage the cart
• Choose the type of payment
• Place an order
• Purchase

The administration side enables users to:

• Manage users
• Manage items
• Manage orders

Purpose

The purpose of this project was to apply the lesson learned, learn new languages & tools, and do research on building an e-commerce website including certain functional requirements.

Languages & Tools

This project was built using:

Languages

• HTML
• CSS
• PHP
• Javascript
• SQL

Tools

• Bootstrap
• IDE: Visual Studio Code
• Web Server: XAMPP
• MySQL administration tool: phpMyAdmin

Prerequisite

• XAMPP.
• Visual Studio Code.

Installation (Windows)

1. Install XAMPP
2. XAMPP control panel
3. Start Apache and MySQL server
4. Clone E-Commerce-Website in the “htdocs” folder inside the folder “xampp” on the computer drive (C:\xampp\htdocs)
5. Go back to XAMPP control panel, and click on the button admin next to MySQL
6. Create a Database called “yannick-store"
7. Go inside the database and click on “import”
8. Click on the button "Choose File" and select the "yannick-store.sql" file inside the folder database from E-Commerce-Website (C:\xampp\htdocs\E-Commerce-Website\database\yannick-store.sql)
9. Click on "Go" to import the database tables necessary to launch the web app
10. Clik on this link: http://localhost//E-Commerce-Website/index.php.

Notice

• If the page is not found check if the poject is in the correct folder
• If the site cannot be reached open XAMPP Control panel and make sure that the Apache and MySQL server have started
• If you already have a configuration for XAMPP open VS Code and change the "dbh.inc.php" file inside the folder "includes" with your server settings
• To access the admin side check the "password.txt" file

Contributor & Contact

• Yannick Boteti Makwenge : yannickmakwenge@gmail.com
• Repository link : https://github.com/Yannick-M243/E-Commerce-Website.