Summary: During my Advanced PHP Programming classes, I was presented three projects types to select from. I chose a shopping cart. The idea of a garden ecommerce come from my own frustration with shopping at a gardening site that, well, just plain sucks.
Lanuage: HTML, CSS, PHP, MySQL, Ajax, Javascript
Class project expectation:
- PHP MVC.
- Maintaining a session.
- Ability to log in as admin and as user with different user permissions.
- User of Ajax.
Additional personal goals:
- Make it friendly for both desktop and mobile device.
- Avoid making a design disaster. Just cause it is a class project does not means I should throw all my design lessons to the backburner.
- Incorporate some web security techniques, particularly the ones I have been reading at OSWASP.
- If possibly, add in features that make it accessibility-friendly.
- Find a way to deal with tax and shipping cost, which was one of the major frustration I had with my previous gardening shop experience.
Progress:
- Got the MVC set up.
- Login session is successfully implemented, with a login dashboard that display cart and inventory content (if user is admin)
- Ability to define user role, such as admin, and alter presentation depending on roles.
- Ajax search feature
- Cart and Inventory now contain CRUD capability for users with correct permission settings.
Here are some images of what the web app currently look like:
- To begin with, validation happens in both client and server. If JavaScript was turn off for some reason, validation will still occur:
- Here is the landing page for a successful regular user login:
- For the admin, there is also an inventory panel. Note that "Inventory" link will only appear on navigation bar if user have admin privilege:
- On the official inventory page, in addition to the inventory panel, there are also input submission to add or delete inventory items:
- On the cart page, incremental button was used:
- The website also have a search bar that uses Ajax. The navigation bar adjusts according to search result:
