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Wish to develop and e-commerce site

 
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Wish to develop and e-commerce site

chitara
post 25 Jul, 2006 - 02:53 AM
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I have developed couple of static & dynamic websites for several companies.
The dynamic or interactive sites were so simple.
Just to add, edit & delete the information option from the single admin end.

Now I am going to develop an e-commerce site, where people can buy Computer Accessories & vender will have the option to create his profile as well as his product information.

Vender will be able to edit his information including his product info.

And of course there will be a super admin who'll controll the vendor & customer. But this admin will not add, edit any product.

So now, can any one help and tell me that how can I proceed.

May I have any guidline from you???

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post 25 Jul, 2006 - 03:07 AM
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Well, that is a pretty good project...what sort of guidance do you need? There are many things you'll need to determine, such as process flow, products, pricing, discounts, inventory, and many more. Have you designed the database for this site? You'll also have to have some way of accepting, validating, and processing payments. What forms of payments will you be accepting? Will you be charging vendors to sell on your site, or simply taking a percentage of sales?

I'd say that you may wish to break the site/functionality down into modules, and approach each one individually. The first ting to do will be to design the entire process (perhaps in the form of an analysis and design document, or flowchart) from beginning to end. Include all possibilities (user quits session midway through, payment is declined, etc...). This should provide you with the information you need to set up the databases behind the site.
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post 25 Jul, 2006 - 11:52 PM
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Hello!

Actually saw the shopping cart or e-commerce software developed by zen or osCommerce.

Gone through their backend i.e. database, folder structure, file/coding style.
But but all gone over my head.

My goodness how'll I do that?????????

But I believe I can create one in a simple way, may be that will not become so good/strong as those.

I know my problem is to create database structure.
There is a posibility, after completing 70% I'll find that some major aspect I just scaped.

Can I have any tutorial from you??

Is it possible??


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post 26 Jul, 2006 - 03:50 AM
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While creating the database design, I've always found it useful to create an ER (Entity Relationship) Diagram. If you have a list of features or functionality you want in a site, start by visually drawing tables and what will be their attributes on a simple sheet of paper.

No overkill is required. You can just have a high level abstraction of your design, and refine it as you go along thinking of more functionality and their details.
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Hello!!


In my online shopping work regarding user/visitor part I have created a list of 10 best products (in the middle position of the layout} as the highleted things.
So, if any visitor click/add_to_cart any product in the next page he/she gets the all details of that product.
But if the visitor wants to buy more product b4 checkout how'll the first one will be added to next.


Hope to hear from you soon.


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chitara
post 9 Aug, 2006 - 01:33 AM
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Hi!


I know I am asking very stupid question, but I need ur guidance.

Please Answer me.

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post 9 Aug, 2006 - 02:12 AM
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I don't think I really get the hang of your question. But I'll try to answer it. I'm assuming you've created a table similar to 'shopping_cart'. Each row in the table would contain the details of the product added. Alternatively, if you have a 'selected' attribute in the 'products' table, make that value TRUE, 1 or whatever you choose to indicate selection of a product. All attributes with the 'selected' attribute as 1 are in the cart.
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