E-commerce Application Development

Introduction

This cource is all about learning basics of developing an E-commerce website .It covers every step of the design and building process involved in creating powerful, extendable e–commerce site. Based around a real–world example involving a web site selling Products, you'll learn how to create and manage a product catalog, build and integrate a shopping cart, and process customer accounts and Stripe/credit card transactions.

Course Code: IT-4746

Credit Hours: 03

Prerequisites:CMP-3110 (Software Engineering)

Course Objectives: This course focuses on electronic commerce applications, technologies, and tools which are used to conduct business on the World Wide Web.

Text Book 1: Beginning PHP and MySQL E-Commerce From Novice to Professional Authors: Darie, Cristian, Balanescu, Emilian.

Text Book 2:PHP 5 E-commerce Development by Michael Peacock, Packt Publishing (January 20, 2010). ISBN-10: 184719964X.

Course Contents

Introduction: An overview of e-Commerce, Brick 'N Mortar stores vs E-commerce based companies ,deciding whether to go online , e-Commerce Models, e-Commerce popular sites
Planning an e-Commerce Framework: Designing a framework, Patterns,Site Skeleton, Building a framework,Three tier structure
Implementation :Implementing the site skeleton ,Installing and configuring Xampp,
Products and Categories: Product information, Category information, Previewing the Product Catalog, Storing Catalog Information,Understanding Data Tables,KeysConstraints, Store Procedure,Communicating with the Database.
Relational Database ,storing data , Relations,Junction table,Quering data ,creating Store Procedure.
Displaying Products,Categories ,Paginition,Product Variations and User Uploads: Giving users choice, Giving users control.
Enhancing the User Experience: The importance of user experience, Search, Making Recommendations, Stock Checking.Datatables,where,like queries
Setting Up the Catalog Administration Page,Adding,deleting ,updating data,managing orders.
Designing the Shopping Cart,Storing Shopping Cart Information,Administering the Shopping Cart,
Implementing an Order-Placement System, Storing the Order Details,Displaying Order Details,
Storing Customer Accounts,Implementing the Security Classes,Adding Customer Accounts Functionality to Front end,
Sessions and Cookies.
Creating the Checkout Page,Administering Customer Orders
handling shipping andpayments ,Integrating stripe gateway.