File Organization

The files in our shop will be organized like this :

The plaincart/library directory contain :

• config.php : this is the main configuration file for our shop
• category-functions.php :functions required for fetching the categories
• product-functions.php : contain product related functions
• cart-functions.php : shopping cart specific functions
• checkout-functions.php : checkout processes are in here
• common.php : common functions required for the shop and admin pages
• database.php : contain the database abstraction functions

The plaincart/include contain :

• header.php
  The shop common header.
  
  
• top.php
  You can place your shop banner here.
  
  
• footer.php
  Common footer, display the shop address, phone number and email. You can add more information here when needed.
  
  
• shop.css
  Style sheet file for our shop
  
  
• leftNav.php
  The left navigation you see on the shop
  
  
• categoryList.php
  Show the top categories we have
  
  
• productList.php
  Show the products in certain category
  
  
• productDetail.php
  You know what this is for, right ?
  
  
• miniCart.php
  Shown on the right portion of the shop pages, it shows the products in the shoping cart.
  
  
• shippingAndPaymentInfo.php
  The form to enter shipping and payment info ( step 1 of checkout )
  
  
• checkoutConfirmation.php
  Show the order items, shipping & payment info ( step 2 of checkout )
  
  

The plaincart/include/paypal directory contain :

• paypal.inc.php
  The configuration file for the paypal payment module
  
  
• ipn.php
  The script that process payment verification
  
  
• payment.php
  Contain the form that submit the payment information from this website to paypal website

The plaincart/admin folder will contain all the admin files.You can see that admin folder also contain include and library folder. These will contain specific library files for the admin pages

All images required in our shop will be put in plaincart/images directory. The category and product images are put in the category and product sub-folder respectively.

Minutes from meeting 1

Monday 29th June 2009 9pm

Venue-C1-11-11

Members present- Osama Ibrahiem Kaddu Shaban Brian Mukasa

On meeting the members decided on the scope of the project.

We decided on our product being weapons.. The company will be called Marines Corporation

On the dispensing of work it was as follows

Leader-Shaban

Design manager-Osama Ibrahiem

Documentation manager-Brian Mukasa

Programming manager-Shaban Kaddu,Brian Mukasa

With the addition of more members shall we eventually have other posts assigned during this project.

We also decided on the file organisation or shopping cart flow which i shall present.

We also decided to meet again on Saturday 04th July 2009 to discuss the gantt chart among other topics

thank you

Brian Mukasa

Documentation Manager

PROPOSAL FOR THE ONLINE SHOPPING APPLICATION FOR ECP 4156 SUBJECT TRIMESTER 1 2009/2010

MARINES CORPORATION

1.KADDU SHABAN

2.BRIAN MUKASA

3.OSAMA IBRAHIEM

Our online shop will be rather basic and not sophiscated. The shop has administrator pages( this is where the shop administrator can create categories, add products) and the shopper pages where all the shopping process takes place.

We are going to use a combination of php and mysql to develop this online shopping tool

The basic flow of the shop will be

1.customer visits the site

2.he or she browses pages and goes through the categories

3.view product details that he or she found interesting

4.Add the products to the shopping cart.

5.Check out .. here u enter the shipping address and your billing information.

6.Sign out

FEATURES

-payment options including (Cash on delivery), (Telegraph Transfer)

This shop will handle cash on delivery requests and telegraphic transfers

-search option for the variety of products we shall be selling

-A Secure and reliable database system for clients, providing secure data protection of sensitive information

PRODUCT

This shop is going to be dealing in ammunition and weapons for defence contractors, governments and their police and army forces.

OBJECTIVES

-to provide an accurate and efficient shopping portal for our customers

-to provide our customers with an efficient way of determining product information, providing customer feedback

-to make the shopping experience so much simpler and enjoyable

DESIGN

During this project we are going to use the following

PHP

MySql

As the project goes on we shall be adding more to this site and hopefully accomodate new members

thank you

Shaban Kaddu( Project Leader)

hi this blog is to detail the progress of the marines group as we work out the shopping cart project this semester
every week or so we shall be updating the blog detailing our progress.
come again soon