Online Shopping

By
Sintu Kumari
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Shopping Cart System is the Simple shopping Solution. It is a full-featured website and shopping cart system that bends over backwards to give you the flexibility you need to run your online store.

The basic concept of the application is to allow the customer to shop virtually using the Internet and allow customers to buy the items and articles of their desire from the store and save their couple of time.

The information pertaining to the products are stores on an RDBMS at the server side .

The Server process the customers and the items are shipped to the address submitted by them.

The details of the items are brought forward from the database for the customer view based on the selection through the menu and the database of all the products are updated at the end of each transaction.

What is Shopping Cart system?

Online shopping is a form of electronic shopping store where the buyer is directly online to the seller’s computer usually via the internet.

There is no intermediary service. The sale and purchase transaction is completed electronically and interactively in real- time.

The development of this new system contains the following activities, which try to develop online application by keeping the entire process in the view of database integration approach.

User gets its email id and password to access their account.

Administrator of Shopping Cart System has multiple features such as Add, Delete, Update shopping Items.

Features of Shopping Cart

  1. Secure registration and profile management facilities for Customers and
  2. Browsing through the e-Mall to see the items that are there in each category of products like Apparel, Kitchen accessories, Bath accessories, Food items etc and
  3. Creating a Shopping cart so that customer can Shop N number of items and checkout finally with the entire shopping cart and
  4. Customers should be able to mail the Shop about the items they would like to see in the Shop and
  5. Secured mechanism for checking out from the Shop (Credit card verification mechanism).Updates to customers about the Recent Items in the Shop.

Brief overview of the technology

Front end: HTML, CSS, JavaScript

  1. HTML: HTML is used to create and save web document. E.g. Notepad/Notepad++
  2. CSS : (Cascading Style Sheets) Create attractive Layout
  3. JavaScript: it is a programming language, commonly use with web browsers.

Back end: PHP, MySQL

  1. PHP: Hypertext Preprocessor (PHP) is a technology that allows software developers to create dynamically generated web pages, in HTML, XML, or other document types, as per client request. PHP is open source software.
  2. MySQL: MySQL is a database, widely used for accessing querying, updating, and managing data in databases.

Software Requirement (any one)

  • WAMP Server
  • XAMPP Server
  • MAMP Server
  • LAMP Server

Installation Steps   

  1. Download zip file and Unzip file on your local server.
  2. Put this file inside “c: /wamp/www/”.
  3. Database Configuration:
  4. Open phpmyadmin
  5. Create Database named “shop”.
  6. Import database shop.sql.
  7. Open Your browser put inside URL: “http://localhost/Online_Shopping/“
  8. To Login as admin put inside URL:”http://localhost/Online_Shopping/admin“

Definition of consumer preference:

Consumer preference refers to, “how customers select goods and services in relation to factors like taste, preference and individual choices. Factors such as the consumers income and price of goods do not influence the customers preferred product or services”.

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