Abstract:
The business-to-consumer aspect of electronic commerce (e-commerce) is the most
visible business use of the World Wide Web. The primary goal of an e-commerce site is
to sell goods and services online. This project deals with developing an e-commerce
website for online shopping. It provides the user with a catalog of different product
available for purchase in the store. In order to facilitate online purchase a shopping cart is
provided to the user. The system is implemented using a 3-tier approach, with a backend
MySQL database, a middle tier apache server and a web browser as the front end client.
In order to develop online shopping application use HTML, CSS, JAVA Script, server
side scripting language PHP and relational database MySQL. This is a project with the
objective to develop a basic website where consumer is provided with a shopping cart
application and also to know about the technologies used to develop such an application.