Setup Instructions
// Recursively change the image permissions to allow for upload
chmod 777 -R /var/www/html/estore/images/product
// Start apache
sudo service apache2 restart
Goto localhost in a browser
Side Notes
-Be sure to open all the required ports for MySQL and SMTP
Browser Details
Please use Google Chrome or Firefox
How It Works
Controllers
-Cart
-Checkout
-Order
-Store
-User
Cart:
Cart is simply a built-in PHP library which handles quantities, pricing and sessions right out of the box. It required very little configuration. It come with several methods which caluclates several useful functions such as total cost of all the cart items, the number of items in the cart, and each items price and quantity. The cart is destroyed on user logout. For any user who visits the site when they are not signed in, the cart creates a session, this way when the user chooses to make an account, the cart persists once the user logs on and they can go directly to checkout to complete their order.
Checkout:
The Checkout controller simply handles taking in the Cart session data and taking in user credit card information (and validating it) in order to perform a valid transaction. Afterwhich, the checkout controller sends an email to the user with a receipt of their order contents, users can also view their receipt from the checkout view after the order has been finalized.
Order:
The Order controller creates order objects and allows typical CRUD manipulation. Each order contains details about items, prices, total prices, the date and time the order was created on, as well as the customer who completed this order. The Order controller also sends the user their order details in the form of a receipt after their order has been finalized and recorded in the database. The order controller also creates a route to view a printable source of the receipt on checkout.
Store:
The store controller is a typical CRUD controller which allows Users to browse the store products and create a shopping cart of the items they may wish to purchase. Each product within the store has its own view, and can be updated or deleted only by the admin user.
User:
The User controller is composed entirely of session handling actions. When a user is created, the user object is stored in a session, and destroyed when the user logs out. The admin user has all fields called 'admin', and is the only user with the ability to delete all users and orders. Admins however, cannot checkout items, though they can edit and delete them from the product list.
About the Admin**
To access the abilities of the admin user, please create an account with all fields called admin (the email can be admin@something.com).
As the admin, when you visit the products page, you can also choose to delete products and edit them. You can also view a list of all users (accessible via an added link in the navbar), where you can view and delete user records if you wish, or all of them at once. Orders are similar, you can view all orders via the Orders List link in the navbar, and perform a deletion of all records, or single records. As an admin, you can also add products to the store.
Custom Configurations
If you wish to use your own email to send purchase receipts, please goto /var/www/estore/application/controllers/order.php and /var/www/estore/application/config/email.php to edit the $config array with your email providers necessary protocol details and login information.
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