E-commerce web application for small business
Binh Minh Chu · Theseus (Ammattikorkeakoulujen) · 2015
E-commerce and e-commerce website are among popular terms nowadays. They exist all around the world. People use them with or without awareness. From a developer point of view, study how an e-commerce website works is a compelling, and at the same time, challenging topic. This thesis report documents the process of developing an e-commerce web application from the beginning until the end. Two main goals of the development were to create a simple e-commerce website but fully functional and to learn more about building web application with PHP and MySQL. The background theoretical study is a part of the report. It contains useful information about e-commerce as well as the programming languages which were used to develop the e-commerce web application. Moreover, all steps that needed to build the application are explained in details. In this project, PHP and MySQL were used to build the back-end system. HTML5, CSS3, JavaScript were used to build the front-end system. In additional, AJAX was also handful to connect the front-end with the database when necessary. Because of the aiming to study thoroughly about the code behind an e-commerce web application, this project did not use any frameworks to build the application despite their powerfulness and convenience. In conclusion, this report serves as a guideline for developers who want to study about e-commerce web application and PHP.