A project report submitted in partial fulfillment of the requirements for B.Tech Thesis Project. The report explores various aspects related to the design and development of a website using Content Management System - Wordpress

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WEB APPLICATION USING PHP AND MYSQL
A project report submitted in partial fulfilment of the requirements
for B.Tech Project
B.Tech.
By
Aakash Khandelwal (2012-IPG-001)
Ayush Agrawal (2012-IPG-020)
Rohit Nimiya (2012-IPG-078)
ABV INDIAN INSTITUTE OF INFORMATION
TECHNOLOGY AND MANAGEMENT
GWALIOR-474 010
2015

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CANDIDATES DECLARATION
We hereby certify that the work, which is being presented in the report, entitled CollegeHaat:
A Leading Cross Category Classifieds Platform, in partial fulfilment of the requirement for
the award of the Degree of Bachelor of Technology and submitted to the institution is an
authentic record of our own work carried out during the period from May 2015 to September
2015 under the supervision of Dr. Vinay Singh. We also cited the reference about the
text(s)/figure(s)/table(s) from where they have been taken.
The matter presented in this report has not been submitted elsewhere for the award of any other
degree of diploma from any Institutions.
Date: Signature of the candidates:
This is to certify that the above statement made by the candidates is correct to the best of my
knowledge.
Date: Signature of the supervisor:

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ACKNOWLEDGEMENT
It is our brilliant supposition to put on record our best respects, most profound feeling of
appreciation to Dr. Vinay Singh for his valuable direction which were to a great degree
supportive for our study both hypothetically and for all intents and purposes. The supporting
and blooming of the present work is for the most part because of his important direction,
recommendations, sharp judgment, useful feedback and an eye for flawlessness. Our tutor
constantly addressed heap of our questions with grinning generosity and colossal persistence,
never giving us a chance to feel that we are fledglings by continually listening carefully to our
perspectives, giving so as to acknowledge and enhancing them and us a free submit our task.
We might likewise want to take this chance to thank our associates, whose opportune direction
and backing helped us to keep up advancement in the right track. We couldn't have done this
without him.
We might likewise want to recognize with much gratefulness the pivotal part of the staff of
Laboratory, who gave the authorization to utilize all the important assets to finish our task.
The theme of our B. Tech Project is "CollegeHaat-A main cross classification classifieds
stage".
The matter displayed in this proposition has not been submitted somewhere else for the grant
of some other level of confirmation from any Institutions.
Aakash Khandelwal Ayush Agrawal Rohit Nimiya
(2012-IPG001) (2012-IPG020) (2012-IPG078)

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ABSTRACT
CollegeHaat is a new concept which is introduced in the field of E-Commerce. CollegeHaat is
a free classified platform, its sole purpose is to provide a platform to sell used products at a
inter college level. These products varies categories wise. It includes the sale of all the products
within a college which are mainly useful for students within a college life. These products are
categorized into different departments like electronics, books, stationary, vehicles, etc.
With the rapid evolution of technology over the past 15 years, there has been a huge growth in
E-Commerce environment. Usually "E-Commerce" refers to a site that sells products or
services over the internet. E-Commerce has gained a lot of popularity, and there will be a time
when the complete business will be shifted to the Internet.
Within a college every student is not always capable of purchasing a new product. There are
many items which are valuable for 3-4 months only like books for a particular subjects are
useful for a particular semester only, so instead of purchasing new products students can
purchase second-hand items within an institute with the help of this website.
This platform helps the students to buy a second-hand items from another students and when
used can re-sale it on this website. So it provides a medium to students to not to always move
to marketplace. This form of platform is termed as CollegeHaat which makes the sharing of
used products easy at an inter-college level.

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TABLE OF CONTENTS
ACKNOWLEDGEMENT ii
ABSTRACT iii
LIST OF TABLES vi
LIST OF FIGURES vii
ABBREVIATIONS ix
1. INTRODUCTION AND LITERATURE SURVEY 1
1.1 Introduction 1
1.1.1. Online Store 1
1.2 Literature Survey 2
1.2.1 OLX 2
1.2.2 QUICKR 2
1.2.3 Content Management System 2
1.2.3.1 Challenges for Drupal and Joomla 3
1.2.3. 2 Leverage Provide by WordPress 4
1.3 Research Methodology 6
1.4 Proposed Solution 12
1.5 Motivation 12
1.6 Objective 12
2. DESIGN DETAILS AND IMPLEMENTATION 13
2.1 Programming Languages and Frameworks Used 13
2.1.1 Client Side 13
2.1.2 Server Side 14
2.1.3 MVC (Model View Controller) 14
2.2 Development 18
2.2.1 Login / Register 19
2.2.1.1 Social Login 19
2.2.2 User`s Account 20
2.2.2.1 Orders 21
2.2.2.2 Downloads 22
2.2.2.3 Wishlist 22
2.2.2.4 Login/Logout 23

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2.2.3 Search a Product 24
2.2.4 Product Details 25
2.2.4.1 Quick View 25
2.2.4.2 Full Details 25
2.2.4.3 Compare with Other Product 25
2.2.4.4 Description and Product Review 25
2.2.4.5 Product Categories and Ranges 25
2.2.5 Payment Methods 26
2.2.6 Submit your Product 26
2.2.7. Plugins used with CollegeHaat 29
2.2.7.1 WordPress Plugins 30
2.2.7.2 YIT Plugins 31
2.2.8 Database Snapshots 37
2.2.9 E-R Diagram 38
2.2.9.2 E-R model - (WordPress) 38
2.2.9.2 E-R model – (Website) 39
3. RESULTS AND DISCUSSION 40
4. CONCLUSION 41
4.1 Conclusion 41
4.2 Future work 41
REFERENCES 42
APPENDIX I 44

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LIST OF TABLES
1.
Table-1.1 Comparing Average setup cost and maintenance fees of different
CMS
19
2. Table 2.2 - User Details and their formats in which they are stored in Database. 21
3.
Table 2.3 - User Details and their description for advertising or selling their own
products
26
4. Table 2.4: Table showing information of registered users 37
5.
Table 2.5: Showing all tables in our database like comments, sliders, users,
links, comments etc.
37

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LIST OF FIGURES:
1. Figure 1.1 – Internet users by country: In million (2014) 6
2. Figure 1.2 – Demographic profile of India online users (as on September 2013) 6
3. Figure 1.3 – Geographical distribution of Internet users in India (million) 6
4. Figure 1.4 – Online orders per month (in million) 6
5. Figure 1.5 – India`s E-Commerce and e-tail growth. 7
6. Figure 1.6 – E-Commerce Drivers and Challenges 7
7. Figure 1.7 – Source of study during a semester 8
8. Figure 1.8 – Distribution of sales preference for second hand items among
different categories.
8
9. Figure 1.9 – Preferred option for buying a book 9
10. Figure 1.10 – Number of students who willingly buy second – hand items. 9
11. Figure 1.11 – Number of students aware with E-Commerce. 9
12. Figure 1.12 – Familiarity with free classified website. 10
13. Figure 1.13 – Main reason for shopping online 10
14. Figure 1.14 – Major Challenges faced when shopping online. 11
15. Figure 1.15 - Number of times, a student has done shopping online. 11
16. Figure 1.16 – Preferred mode of Payment used when shopping online 11
17. Figure 2.1 - MVC - I 16
18. Figure 2.2 - MVC – II 17
19. Figure 2.3 - MVC – III 17
20. Figure 2.4 - Data flow diagram of web model 18

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21. Figure 2.5 – Accessing of restricted areas of the website after gaining proper
access After login or registration a user can get access to all the restricted area of
the website.
20
22. Figure 2.6 – Internal structure of functioning of the website 23
23. Figure 2.7 – WordPress Query Structure to be used in search in the website 24
24. Figure – 2.8 (a) – Cloud Diagram showing Product Categories
Figure – 2.8 (a) – Cloud Diagram showing Product Ranges
25
25. Figure 2.9 – Workflow after adding a product to cart, which explains checkout,
coupons, payments, shipping, tracking and delivery confirmation.
27
26. Figure 2.9 – Workflow for safely upgrading WordPress engine. 28
27. Figure 2.10 – WordPress Core and Plugins working 29
28. Figure 2.11 – E-R Diagram of WordPress 38
29. Figure 2.12 – E-R Diagram of all the entities related to our website like suppliers,
product, orders, users, payments etc...
39
30. (Appendix) Figure – 1.1 Home page of solution provided 44
31. (Appendix) Figure – 1.2 Page showing User Account Details 44
32. (Appendix) Figure – 1.3 Database showing list of Products 45
33. (Appendix) Figure – 1.4 Web page showing all the products 45
34. (Appendix) Figure – 1.5 Page showing Product Details in Detailed View 46
35. (Appendix) Figure – 1.6 Page showing Product Details in Quick View 46
36. (Appendix) Figure – 1.7 Website Footer – showing categories, ranges, cart and
enquiry form.
47
37. (Appendix) Figure – 1.8 AJAX Search, recommending search results on based of
keywords provided
47
38. (Appendix) Figure – 1.9 Chat view from the side of chat operator. 48
39. (Appendix) Figure – 1.10 Chat UI for clients / customers 48

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ABBREVIATIONS
HTML Hyper Text Markup Language
WP WordPress
YITH Your Inspiration Themes
CSS Cascading Style Sheet
JQUERY Java Script Query
PHP Hypertext Pre-processor
MYSQL My Structure Query Language
CMS Content Management System
E-COMMERCE Electronic Commerce
SEO Search Engine Optimization
ACL Access Control List
CNN Cable News Network
XML Extensible Markup Language
SVG Scalable Vector Graphics
XUL Xml User Interface Language
ASP Active Server Pages
MVC Model View Controller
URL Uniform Resource Locator
RSS Rich Site Summary
EMAIL Electronic Mail
PDF Portable Document Format
CD Compact Disc
DVD Digital Video Disc
AJAX Asynchronous Java Script And XML
YIT Your Inspiration Themes
ER DIAGRAM Entity Relationship Diagram
IFRS International Financial Reporting Standard
SQL Structure Query Language

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CHAPTER 1
INTRODUCTION AND LITERATURE SURVEY
1.1 INTRODUCTION
E-Commerce means buying and selling of goods and services through the Internet. It is a very
broad term, and one can gain innumerable jobs from E-Commerce.
Selling and Buying of products through internet is the main use of E-Commerce technology.
This field is very vast and many platforms are embedded in it. So, E-Commerce has gained a
lot of popularity, and there will be a time when the complete business will be shifted to the
Internet. So, if anyone is planning to start the online business, then it’s better to begin by
selecting a perfect E-Commerce platform.
E commerce is getting popular day by day by making online presence. Extending and
supporting the development of an e-trade business is a humongous assignment as a result of
the regularly expanding rivalry in the business sector. For a fruitful E-Commerce business, an
easy to use inventive site is completely fundamental.
1.1.1 ONLINE STORES
Most electronic business destinations are online stores which have at any rate the
accompanying components at the front-office level:
 A category of products which shows to which department any particular product belongs,
further it shows the product details like its price, specifications, etc.
 A web crawler which makes it conceivable to effectively find an item through hunt criteria
(brand, value reach, watchword, and so forth.).
 A virtual cart: It makes it conceivable to follow the buys of the customer along the way
and adjust the amounts for every reference.
 An online payment portal: It is frequently guaranteed by a trusted outsider (a bank) by
means of a safe exchange.
 An order tracking system, which permits following of request handling and in some cases
gives data on pickup of the bundle by the shipper.

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1.2 LITERATURE SURVEY
1.2.1. OLX:
Olx is an online classifieds platform for selling used goods such as vehicle’s, furniture’s,
electronics, etc.
How is Olx doing: The site is now in over 90 countries and 40 languages with over 140 million
unique visitors per month. The company has over 160 employees with offices in New York,
Buenos Aires, Sao Paulo, Delhi, Moscow and Beijing.
Olx website working: As a seller one should upload the picture and give description of the
stuff along with quote (price) and as a buyer one should contact seller on the contact
information (email, phone) provided by seller and buy it from him.
Sources of Income of Olx: Olx don’t charge directly from any users, the source of income for
them are mainly AdSense Ads / Google Ads, Sponsored Ads / Banners and Premium Ads.
1.2.2. QUIKR:
Quikr is India’s leading cross category classifieds platform where people connect with each
other to buy or sell goods and services on their mobile phones and other devices.
How is Quikr doing: Headquartered in Bangalore, Quikr has a presence in 1000 cities in India
and operates in over 10 categories that include mobile phones, household goods, cars, real
estate, jobs, services and education.
Finance: In 2014, Quikr raised about $150 million, of which it raised a $60 million investment
in a round led by Tiger Global with participation from several existing investors and raised $90
million in investment in a round led by Kinnevik. Till date, Quikr has raised a total of $350
million from 7 funding rounds since its inception.
1.2.3 CONTENT MANAGEMENT SYSTEM (CMS)
Drupal, Joomla and WordPress are all CMS applications. These applications have turned into
an "Absolute necessity HAVE" buzz word — most site proprietors need them without
comprehension their utilization. Some site proprietors feel that CMS applications are the way
to a site's prosperity or trust that any prevalent CMS application is going to work for any
undertaking, any size or many-sided quality — that is never the case.

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1.2.3.1 CHALLENGES FOR DRUPAL AND JOOMLA
Regardless of their prevalence, both Drupal and Joomla DO NOT give a typical percentage
marking components that each site needs, as its centre components:
 Extraordinary marking and outline.
Drupal and Joomla are both format based CMS applications, they are fabricated by developers
and not architects or individuals with configuration, marking, and showcasing skill.
It is conceivable to make a site with one of a kind marking utilizing Drupal or Joomla; Be that
as it may, in light of the fact that when those applications were constructed, there was not any
accentuation or impressive exertion creating remarkable marking components. It is all the more
a dreary and time- consuming procedure to actualize a site obliging numerous extraordinary
marking components utilizing
 Remarkable category pages
Most locales (particularly organizations and establishments) will oblige special Product,
Services or Category pages. Despite the fact that this can be expert by Drupal, Joomla or
WordPress, it can be a repetitive and time- consuming process.
This element is excluded as the centre usefulness of any of these items. In WordPress this
feature can be further extended to different tags within a single category which remove the
repetitive use of categories.
 One of a kind pages and ease of use
Studies demonstrate that for better ease of use, it is prescribed to utilize special components
identified with every page so the client can better recognize which page he/she is on. A decent
illustration of a one of a kind component for every page would be an exceptional flag. Of
course, as their centre usefulness, Drupal, Joomla or WordPress are setup to utilize the same
pennant or same component outline for all pages. As WordPress provide wide ranges of plugins
and customizable themes, this issue can be resolved and unlike Joomla and Drupal, WordPress
has improved far on this aspect.
 Instinctive and user friendly administration
The principle reason for a Content Management System is to make it simple for even a fledgling
PC client to keep up what's more, deal with a site. Both Drupal and Joomla have an
exceptionally bloated and befuddling organization. This is on the grounds that both have been

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put together by software engineers and there have not been any perceptible ease of use
endeavours put into these applications.
As of this written work, Drupal's organization interface (adaptation 6.19 - August 11, 2010) is
confounding and not client well disposed. There was exploration done by University of
Minnesota Office for Information Technology's ease of use lab which distinguished numerous
ease of use issues with Drupal's organization.
Joomla's organization ease of use and expectation to learn and adapt is superior to anything
Drupal's, yet insufficient to give a recognizable point of interest to the end-user over Drupal.
WordPress has a vastly improved and extremely natural organization
 Average setup cost and maintenance
Table-1.1 Comparing Average setup cost and maintenance fees of different CMS
1.2.3.2 LEVERGAE PROVIDED BY WORDPRESS
 WORDPRESS is world’s favourite blogging software
 There are more than 68 million websites currently running on WordPress ranging
from blogs to various E-Commerce portals.
 Some famous online platforms which use WordPress are –
 1.The New York Times
 2.CNN
 3.Forbes
 4.Reuters
 Major Features of WordPress are –
 It helps to accommodates multiple authors at a single time.
 SEO (Search Engine Optimization) Efficient and favourable over other
competitors.
Drupal Joomla WordPress
Average Setup and
Customization Cost
$5,000 - $50,000 $2,000 - $20,000 $250 - $15,000
Average Monthly
Maintenance
$1000-$2000 $500 $250

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 Expansive plugin library – WordPress comes with a wide ranges of plugin
ranging from a responsive slider to buddy press (a social media platform
created on WordPress of intra connectivity in an organization).
 Easy to customize - It is highly customizable according to the user needs, a big
thanks to its vast plugin library.
 Flexible
 User-friendly
 WordPress also overcomes many disadvantages of its major competitors like
JOOMLA and DRUPAL as these CMS lacks -
 Steep learning curve – As compared to WordPress, Joomla and Drupal are very
hard to learn. They required more advance knowledge of the domain and
therefore are less preferred among users as compared to WordPress.
 Lacks quality free Plugins – WordPress comes with a wide range of plugin
facilities which is hardly provided by its competitors.
 Not intuitive
 Lacks SEO capability
 Limited access control list(ACL) support

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1.3 RESEARCH METHODOLOGY
An Internet survey was done on E-Commerce and following results were found -
(Source - PricewaterhouseCoopers Private Limited (PwCPL), Authored by: Jitesh Bijlani
URL: www.pwc.in/ghost.../E-Commerce-in-india-accelerating-growth.html )
Figure 1.1 – Internet users by country:
In million (2014)
Figure 1.2 – Demographic profile of
India online users (as on September
2013)
Figure 1.3 – Geographical distribution of
Internet users in India (million)
Figure 1.4 – Online orders per month
(in million)

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Figure 1.5 – India`s E-Commerce and e-tail growth.
Figure 1.6 – E-Commerce Drivers and Challenges

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A study was directed online through Google Docs. The example were understudies of different
fields from diverse colleges. The specimen size was 219 which included understudies of both
science and commerce fields. The review pointed of becoming acquainted with individual’s
enthusiasm for e-trade. Likewise it went for taking in individuals' enthusiasm toward
CollegeHaat.
Figure 1.7 – Source of study during a semester
Figure 1.8 – Distribution of sales preference for second hand items among different
categories.
30%
83%
13%
56%
21%
63%
0% 20% 40% 60% 80% 100%
Prefer to buy a new book
Get Photostat of books or notes
Try to learn from ebook
Buy a second-hand book
Depend on course materials,if provided…
Learn from online notes
Source of study during a semester
23%
35%
62%
15%
81%
41%
0% 20% 40% 60% 80% 100%
Others
Mobile Accessories
Electronics Items
Vehicles (if allowed in campus)
Stationary Items and Books
PC accessories
Distribution of sales preference for second hand
items among different categories

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Figure 1.9 – Preferred option for buying a book
Figure 1.10 – Number of students who willingly
buy second – hand items.
Figure 1.11 – Number of students aware
with E-Commerce.
0% 20% 40% 60% 80%
Get it secondhand from local book mart
Get a new copy from local book mart
Order online a new copy
Try to find an ebook version
Ask from Seniors
73%
12%
7%
45%
53%
Preferred option for buying a book
Series2 Series1
62%
38%
Buy Second-Hand Items
yes no
100%
0%
Aware with E-Commerce
yes no

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Figure 1.12 – Familiarity with free classified website
Figure 1.13 – Main reason for shopping online.
0% 10% 20% 30% 40% 50% 60% 70% 80% 90% 100%
olx
quickr
ebay
secondhandmall
abebooks
secondhandbookindia
bookadda
amazon-tradein
93%
82%
74%
15%
4%
12%
47%
19%
Familiarity with free Classified website
0% 20% 40% 60% 80% 100%
Wide Variety
Large Discount
Satisfaction
No Transportation Cost
24-Hour Availablity
Large Customer Support
Easy Refund and Return Back policy
53%
82%
19%
79%
31%
37%
49%
Main reason for shopping online.

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Figure 1.14 – Major Challenges faced when shopping online.
Figure 1.15 - Number of times, a
student has done shopping online.
Figure 1.16 – Preferred mode of Payment used
when shopping online
17% 3%
45%
35%
Number of times, a student has
done shopping online
Less than 5 times Never
Less than 15 times Frequently
83%
17%
Preferred Mode of
Payment
Cash on delivery Onnline payment
2%
10%
35%
27%
46%
39%
32%
28%
56%
0% 10% 20% 30% 40% 50% 60%
Not familiar with online shopping
Worry on payment security
Worry on personal privacy
Worry on product quality
Enjoy traditioanal shopping
Too complicated procedures
Unable to touch the products
Expensive shipment fees
No interaction with shop assistants
Major Challenges faced when shopping online.

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1.4 PROPOSED SOLUTION
CollegeHaat is a web based application using php and MySQL which is a platform to sell used
items within an institute at a very nominal price. It allows a user to register/login into the
website so that a user can have its own personal account so that he/she can login whenever
required. The product are categorized according to the categories like electronics items, books,
etc. Users can also use a search bar to search any particular product directly.
There is a facility to view the product directly as well as user can view the product via different
angles. There is an option of adding a product to cart so that user can view the list of all of its
item in his cart at the time of checkout. It also provide various types of payment options such
as via credit/debit card, cash on delivery, etc.
1.5 MOTIVATION
Although huge progress has been done in the area of E-Commerce environment like olx, quikr,
etc., which sells used products it still lacks in providing services to any particular inter-college
level so that many things like books and notes sharing, selling the used items within the same
institute at a very cheaper price can be done.
For example, a student who didn’t want to purchase new book so instead of spending a lot of
money can buy a second-hand book which has been used by someone else in the institute at a
very cheaper price.
1.6 OBJECTIVE
The sole target of our examination is to add to a model which furnish with a simple and
productive access to second-hand items like books, electronics items, and stationary items at a
very cheaper price within an institute.
 To help students to save money from spending money on new products.
 To minimize time from visiting the market place to buy new product.

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CHAPTER 2
DESIGN DETAILS AND IMPLEMENTATION
2.1 PROGRAMMING LANGUAGES AND FRAMEWORKS USED -
2.1.1 CLIENT-SIDE:
 HTML 5: HTML stands for Hyper Text Mark-up Language and is generally the basis
for all the webpages we see today. It defines elements on a webpage and tells browsers
what to display, how to display it, and where. A mark-up Language is a set of mark-
up tags. HTML documents are described by HTML tags. Each HTML tag describes
different document content. Each Tag has a different kind of meaning for the web
page.
 CSS: Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) is a template dialect utilized for portraying the
look and arranging of a record written in an imprint up dialect. Although regularly
used to change the style of website pages and Client interfaces written in HTML and
XHTML, the dialect can be connected to any sort of XML archive, including plain
XML, SVG and XUL. Along With HTML and JavaScript, CSS is a foundation
innovation utilized by most Sites to make outwardly captivating site pages, client
interfaces for web Applications, and client interfaces for some portable applications.
 JavaScript: Our browser is what interprets all the files that the server sends us, and in
large part, JavaScript helps us to interact with the website without necessarily needing
to communicate with the server. This is why JavaScript is a client-side scripting
language. JavaScript lets the website do things like validate forms, create visual effects,
etc.
2.1.2 SERVER SIDE:
 PHP: PHP is a server side programming dialect. PHP is an effective apparatus for
making dynamic and intuitive Web pages. PHP is the generally utilized, free, and
effective different option for contenders, for example, Microsoft's ASP. PHP is a
deciphered programming dialect which gives out html code php is the work behind in
locales such email or discussions we see. PHP is a broadly utilized universally useful
scripting dialect that is particularly suited for Web improvement and can be inserted
into HTML.

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 Apache HTTP Server: It is a Web server application. It gives PHP a local web
server module for adding backing to a web server. Discharged under the Apache
License, Apache is open-source programming.
 MySQL: It is an open-source RDBMS that keeps running as a server giving multi-
client access to various databases.
 WordPress: It is a content administration framework also known as CMS (Content
Management System) taking into account MySQL and PHP. It has a plugin structural
planning and a format framework. Its discharges are codenamed after well-known jazz
artists. It permits to amplify its element with the assistance of plugins the vast majority
of which are open-source.
 XAMPP: It is an improvement situation for PHP. It comprise of Apache, MySQL
database, translators for PHP scripts, all in one spot.
2.1.3 MVC (MODEL VIEW CONTROLLER)
WordPress is kinda-sorta MVC. On the off chance that anything it is a force sort MVC format,
where the View "pulls" information from the model. It this in an exceptionally procedural
manner, rather than utilizing loads of distinctive items, however this really makes the front end
formats simpler to write from numerous points of view.
This likewise gives the perspectives some level of controller rationale (hence the kinda-sorta
MVC).
The working of WordPress can be explained as –
WordPress gets a URL. The WordPress core goes about as a controller and figures out what
introductory inquiries to keep running of the database, and by expansion, what view ought to
be stacked (classification perspective, single post or site visit, and so forth.). It then bundles
that INTIAL inquiry reaction and sends it to the view record.
That view document can be a strict show just record or it can ask for extra data/questions past
the inherent one. This is the force sort of the MVC, where the perspective pulls information
from the model rather than the controller "pushing" information from the model into the view.
Along these lines, when the view sees code to load a sidebar or gadget range, it requests that
data. Notwithstanding, what widgets ought to be there is dictated by the controller, which takes
a gander at the model for what widgets are in the sidebar, and afterward chooses those that are
set to appear on the present page, and returns those to the view.

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That every piece of that isn't an object doesn't make this any less MVC. WE can modify WP
core without (essentially) adjusting anything around a theme. Essentially, the length of one
utilize assembled in capacities like 'get_pages ()' then the model and the database tables could
change the length of those capacities still gave back the right information. Thus, the model is
free of the view, and the controller is autonomous too (aside from when the view adds controller
rationale to accomplish more than the core typically does).
While we COULD have a model article holding various systems and stuff like
WPModel::get_pages ('blah'), and contain everything that route, there is still principal
detachment of concerns.
View: template files
Controller: WP core Model: the various functions that handle specific data handling.
The length of the names, contentions, and so forth keep with it (or simply have new ones
included) then partition of concerns is kept up and one can be modified without irritating the
others.
It isn't a super-clean form of MVC, (particularly when snares get included), however at a
fundamental level it begins there. What’s more, being procedural about it isn't a terrible thing.
A request from a site is pretty intrinsically procedural: it is a procedure with a reasonable
starting and end, and simply needs a technique to transform the request, get information, bundle
it, and afterward pass on. One can set up those progressions with items and article strategies
and OOP formats (which would make a few things less demanding) or can simply compose a
considerable measure of capacity gets and isolate them out that way. Class individuals like
private variables are lost that way yet relying upon the application's needs... one won't not give
it a second thought.

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Figure 2.1 - MVC - I

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Figure 2.2 - MVC – II
Figure 2.3 - MVC – III

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2.2. DEVELOPMENT
This area comprises of our strategies and rationales used to convey to this venture. Utilizing
word press as CMS of our decision, we utilized apache as the server and MySQL as the
database.
All advancements said above were utilized to do our task and make an item, a site making it
much less demanding for client to gaze upward the substance and select the most suitable.
There are different functionalities gave, for example, Searching a specific thing/item,
login/enlistment of a client, instalment gateway, seeing the item from distinctive points and
so forth., all of which will be talked about quickly as how they are actualized.
Figure 2.4 - Data flow diagram of web model

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2.2.1 LOGIN/REGISTRATION
A login or sign in alludes to the qualifications needed to get access to a record or other
confined range by Logging in. When a client has signed in, they can then log out when access
is no more required.
Registration is a strategy for authoritatively recording something. Generally something is
enrolled to guarantee more rights, or to ensure possession, or in light of the fact that the law
says it must be enlisted to be utilized lawfully.
Table 2.1 - Login and registration table
For Login –
Username or email address
Password
For Registration –
Email Address
Password
2.2.1.1 SOCIAL LOGIN
It uses a simple open protocol, to allow secure authorization in a simple and standard
method from desktop, mobile and web applications. It provides simple way to publish
and interact with protected data. It allows the visitors to comment, login and register
with various common Social Networks. It increases User Engagement in a few simple
steps. The various Social Networks/ Providers are –
 Facebook  Pinterest  RSS
 Twitter  Tumblr  Skype
 Google+  LinkedIn  Email
 YouTube  Instagram  Behance
 Dribble  Flickr
Please enter your Username or Email Address
Please enter your Password
Please enter your Email Address
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Figure 2.5 – Accessing of restricted areas of the website after gaining proper access
After login or registration a user can get access to all the restricted area of the website.
1.2.2 USER’S ACCOUNT
It refers to the user’s own profile where user can edit the details of his/her account like edit
wish list, view the list of orders made by him in past, edit his/her address, etc. Major User
roles provided on the website are -
 Administrator
 Editor
 Author
 Contributor
 Subscriber
 Customer
 Shop Manager
 YITH Live Chat Operator
User Account contains following user details. Any user can edit these details anytime by
Clicking on Edit Address/Edit Account option and can save them for any future reference

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Table 2.2 - User Details and their formats in which they are stored in Database.
Subsections of User`s Account -
 Orders
 Downloads
 Wishlist
 Login/Logout
2.2.2.1 ORDERS
The shopping cart element is generally put together all the items ordered at past
purchasing session as well as current session at any E-Commerce site. It's verging on
difficult to envision a store without a shopping basket capacity included. The most
famous shopping basket symbol is a straightforward crate so it bodes well to pick
something comparative for any site. Numerous stores likewise give their clients private
records where it's conceivable to check all their past and current requests. Orders
section under Users Account provides the same facility in our website.
Each client who joins can pick an individual login and secret key for further get to. In
addition, proprietors of such records can get unique markdown offers from the store
proprietors and take an interest in diverse advancements or deals.
On the off chance that one manage an expansive online store that has a wide decision
of products then the inquiry (search) box is an unquestionable requirement have. This
will likewise demonstrate mainstream with clients who request a particular item that
First Name CHAR
Last Name CHAR
Current Password VARCHAR
New Password VARCHAR
Confirm Password VARCHAR
Email Address VARCHAR
Address VARCHAR
City VARCHAR
State VARCHAR
Pin Code INT
Phone Number INT

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they simply need to situate from the online store to make their request. Order section
also facilitates the use of runtime recommending search engine. One can update his
previous order, can get the PDF invoice of all the previous orders taken place, he can
also track the current orders position. If Coupons are available, anyone can apply them
and can redeem the amount from the actual price of the product purchase.
This section just provide a summary of items purchase and hence allow user to proceed
for checkout and payment process.
2.2.2.2 Downloads
If a user has bought any sort of digital goods, like software, eBooks, PDF documents,
CDs and DVDs (Online Version), Soft Copy of any material then all those item would
appeared in this section for a certain time period so that user can download and save it
to its own location can be online or offline.
There would be some links to online storage platform to directly store and save the
products to them like Dropbox, Google Drive, One Drive etc.
2.2.2.3 WISHLIST
Offering a list of things to get is one approach to assist lessen with shop pinging truck
deserting and build deals for the E-Commerce store. Online lists of things to get are
advanced accumulations of things that customers might want to claim. Clients add items
to a rundown associated with their profile on a particular site. The rundown is saved
money on the site so the client can allude back to it later or move stock into their
shopping basket to buy. Lists of things to get let customers put things aside and keep
skimming - until an item is moved from the list of things to get to the shopping basket,
it's not held for the client.
E-Commerce stores that offer list of things to get abilities to clients make the shopping
procedure less demanding. Lists of things to get wipe out the inconvenience of directing
a new online quest for an item. Wish records make it less demanding to shop online for
loved ones. When a list of things to get is finished, the inventor can send it to loved
ones in foresight of occasions, birthdays or life occasions. On the off chance that
somebody who is new to the store's items might want to purchase a thing as a blessing,
he or she may not know where to begin. As opposed to strolling into a block and-mortar
store and examining choices with a business agent, these purchasers can allude to lists
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2.2.2.4 LOGIN/LOGOUT –
This link is most important aspect of any E-Commerce website as it allow any user to
get access to the restricted areas of the website and just start doing shopping or sell
products or advertise. Once a user has done with any of the mention activity he might
not be interested to browse on website and can simply logout to close the session
created. A user can simply login by registering using an email address or just by Social
Login from mentioned Social Media Networks.
Source – Rarst.net CC-BY-SA
Figure 2.6 – Internal structure of functioning of the website

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2.2.3 SEARCH A PRODUCT
It is an important aspect as it helps a user in searching any product which he/she needs directly
instead of exploring the whole website. For searching, a user enters the required product name
and that product with some related products comes down in the form of a list.
The searching uses the AJAX technology, which is renowned for the method of exchanging
data with a server and updating parts of a webpage without reloading the entire page.
Figure 2.7 – WordPress Query Structure to be used in search in the website

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2.2.4 PRODUCT DETAILS
There are many features in product details in the solution provided. These are -
2.2.4.1 QUICK VIEW: It helps to quickly view important features of the product and add
directly to the cart and the required quantity and moved to view the cart.
2.2.4.2 FULL DETAILS: It helps to view all the details, recommended products, grouped
products, related items, description and reviews provided. One can also add the items to their
WISHLIST here.
2.2.4.3 COMPARE WITH OTHER PRODUCT: It helps to compare different products
with respect to different / common features like manufacturer name, warranty, special features
etc..
2.2.4.4 DESCRIPTION AND PRODUCT REVIEW: Description describes the product
qualities in details. It explains the major strength about the product and also in which
category the product exists. Product Review just help other people to give there review about
the product and the feedback received. It helps the buyer to know about the performance of
the product when it has been used by the public. One can rate the product performance from 1
(poor performance) to 5 (excellent performance).
2.2.4.5 PRODUCT CATEGORIES AND RANGES - Product categories are more specific
then ranges. Categories act as parent element to product ranges / tags.
Figure – 2.8 (a) – Cloud Diagram showing Product Categories
Figure – 2.8 (b) – Cloud diagram showing Product Ranges

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2.2.5 PAYMENT METHODS:
It comprises of all the payment options which user can select to order a product. There are
various options for payment like cash on delivery, direct bank transfer, cheque payment,
Credit card, etc.
 Direct Bank Transfer – Customers have to make payment directly into the bank
account. With the use of their Order ID as the payment reference. The order won’t be
shipped until the funds have cleared in the seller account.
 Cheque Payment – In this user are requested to send the cheque to Store Name, Store
Street, Store Town, Store State / County, Store Postcode.
 Cash on Delivery - Pay with cash upon delivery.
 Authorize.net Payment – It allows the users to pay using the Authorize.net network
services using plastic money.
2.2.6 SUBMIT YOUR PRODUCT –
This segment of the website is important for those customers who want to sell their items. After
entering few information about the seller and the product itself, users would be able to sell their
items and can generate profits, by giving a minimal commission to the site.
Major components of the information provided by users are -
Table 2.3 - User Details and their description for advertising or selling their own products
Name Name of the vendor/user advertising or
selling its product
Email Email of the same person
Product title Name of the Product
Product Tags Special features associated with the product
like company name,
Product Category By default, chosen as uncategorized
Upload Product Image Maximum of five images are allowed to
attached as product image
Product Description A summary about the product, its details
and important qualities and features.
Estimate Price Price of the product user want to sell at

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Figure 2.9 – Workflow after adding a product to cart, which explains checkout, coupons,
payments, shipping, tracking and delivery confirmation.
1. WELCOME 2.ADDRESS 3. PAYMENT 4. CONFIRMATION
Financial
System
CRM System Payment
Gateways
Shipping
Gateways
Inventory/Warehouses Customer
Services
5. Order
Created
2. Start
Checkout
3. Add
Address
4. Add
Payment
6. Order
Processing,
Inventory
Check,
Shipment
Split
7.
Shipment
Released
Website
Shopping
1. Cart
Created
Manual order
Management
10. Returns
/Exchanges
8. Add to
Picklist
9. Order
Completed/
Shipped
Tracking
Packing Slip
Order
Confirmation

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Source - https://codex.wordpress.org/Database_Description/
Figure 2.9 – Workflow for safely upgrading WordPress engine.

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2.2.7 PLUGINS USED WITH COLLEGEHAAT
Figure 2.10 – WordPress Core and Plugins working

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2.2.7.1 WORDPRESS PLUGINS
 Akismet
Utilized by millions, Akismet is conceivably the most ideal route on the planet to shield any
WordPress website from remark and trackback spam. It keeps the site shielded from spam even
while one rest.
 Custom Sidebars
Custom Sidebars allows WordPress developers to create widgetized areas and custom sidebars.
It replace whole sidebars or single widgets for specific posts and pages.
 Quick Contact Form
A really, really simple contact form. There is nothing to configure it this plugin, just after
adding the developers email address and it's ready to go. But then we have access to a huge
range of easy to use features.
 Revolution Slider
Revolution Slider -Premium Responsive slider. Revolution Slider is an innovative, responsive
WordPress Slider Plugin that displays the content in very beautiful way. Whether it's a Slider,
Carousel, Hero Scene or even a whole Front Page, the visual, drag & drop editor will let us
tell our own stories in no time.
 Visual Composer
This plugin is a drag and drop plugin with both frontend and backend editors. Visual Composer
page builder plugin for WordPress take full control over the WordPress site with Frontend and
Backend editors. It helps to build any layout one can imagine with drag and drop page builder
plugin. It require no programming knowledge. Visual Composer also comes premium add-on
elements like Icon, Info Box, Interactive Banner, Flip Box, and Info List & Counter. It also
provides a Font Icon Manager allowing users to upload / delete custom icon fonts. It
 User Submitted Posts
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 WooCommerce
An E-Commerce toolkit that helps us to sell anything. The world's favourite E-Commerce
solution that gives complete control to sell anything. WooCommerce is now the most popular
E-Commerce platform on the web, so any developer can rest assured they're in good company.
2.2.7.2 YIT PLUGINS
 Advanced Reviews
Advance Reviews plugin extends the basic functionality of WooCommerce reviews and add a
histogram table to the reviews of the products, as well as to see in most trendy e- commerce
way.
It adds a histogram table to the reviews of the products received by various consumers and
reviewers, as we see in most trendy E-Commerce sites, and give users the possibility to attach
images to their reviews. Therefore it helps to keep up-to-date about most trendy products. Also
it provide the new facilities to manage an advanced review system.
 Product Slider Carousel
YITH WooCommerce Product Slider Carousel allows us to create responsive product sliders.
It makes products visible in the shop in a tidy and professional way using a product slider that
one can locate in strategic spots of the site to move customer’s curiosity and increase sales.
With YITH WooCommerce Product Slider Carousel one can show more products at the same
time and let them scroll automatically, so that users can see them all. It is a modern and versatile
feature that cannot miss in a professional shop.
 Review Reminder
Allows developers to send a reminder to customers with an invitation to do a review of the
items purchased. YITH Woocommerce Review Reminder allows us to send, after 7 days the
order status is set to "Completed", a reminder to customers with an invitation to make a review
of the items purchased.
 Ajax Search
YITH WooCommerce Ajax Search allows our users to search products in real time. It helps to
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YITH WooCommerce Ajax Search is a very easy-to-use plugin for WooCommerce. One just
need to install it and it's ready to work. It creates a simple search box that shows users the
instant search results, by suggesting the products from the WooCommerce store that matches
our searching criteria.
It is very useful to assist our users while they are trying to search any product in the website.
Users can just enter a keyword for the WooCommerce product they are looking for and YITH
WooCommerce Ajax Search will spare them the nuisance to browse all WooCommerce
categories one at a time. Just by starting to write the key phrase a list of useful suggestion will
be shown to the user and the more one write, the more accurate search results will be. At that
point, one will only need to choose what one need.
 Cart Messages
The YITH Woocommerce Cart Messages plugin let developers to add custom messages in the
cart page and/or in the checkout page. It helps to improve the user experience and improve our
sales. In this plugin we can use the simple message about the products in cart and the categories
related to them which is provided as cart messages.
 Request a Quote
The YITH Woocommerce Request a Quote plugin lets customers to ask for an estimate of a
list of products they are interested into.
 Aurhorize.net
YITH Authorize.net allows our users to pay using the Authorize.net network services. It
requires WooCommerce to work.
YITH Authorize.net Payment Gateway extends the WooCommerce default payment modes,
adding the possibility to pay with credit cards through the services offered by the Authorize.net
network. A system that indeed includes an amount of reliability, with the guarantee that the
purchase process will not be stopped by lost payments. In addition, research have proved that
the more payment methods are available on your website, the more website's reliability is
improved: this means that adding credit card will persuade more in choosing your shop to
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 Catalog Mode
YITH WooCommerce Catalog Mode, a plugin for disabling sales in the E-Commerce and turn
it into an E-Commerce into an online catalogue.
YITH WooCommerce Catalog Mode is one of the most appealing plugins for WordPress and
WooCommerce users who need to switch their WooCommerce site into an online catalogue
for some time. Reasons for this switch may be a thousand, but most common ones are
concerned with the need of developers to perform maintenance actions in the warehouse
without putting their site offline. A catalogue gives us the opportunity to leave the
WooCommerce products online and to let customers contact us anyway for whatever question
they might have. This increases customers' loyalty and one do not lose visibility online. It helps
from a potential customers lost. Without putting WooCommerce shop down, one can have a
look on the inventory by changing E-Commerce into an online catalogue.
 Order Tracking
Order Tracking helps to add an easy tool to manage order shipping information of the shop and
to notify the customers about the shipping.
YITH Woocommerce Order Tracking is a WordPress plugin that allows developers to manage
easily shipping information concerning with orders and that lets our customers be notified
about their order shipping. The seller can give user the information about how long the product
will take to be delivered, but as a user, we are not sure about where it is until it arrives. What
one need is something informing us about the packet, a tracking tool that WooCommerce
unfortunately does not adds automatically to a shop? This is exactly what YITH
WooCommerce Order Tracking allows users to do, tracking the delivery of the watches,
clothes, books or whatever WooCommerce product one have ordered. This is a very useful tool
to make WooCommerce shop as complete as possible and offer our customers the best services.
Customers feel that we care for them and they feel safe: this will certainly make sales in our
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 Pdf Invoice
It help directly by creating and sending PDF receipts and delivery rundown archives for Woo
Commerce orders by means of email.
This Woo Commerce plugin permits making PDF receipts and transportation rundown archives
for Woo Commerce arranges rapidly and effortlessly with adaptable layouts. One can also pick
these PDF documents if producing receipts physically or consequently utilizing custom number
configuration and send it as email connection to the clients.
 Social Plugin
YITH Woo Commerce Social login is a plugin that permits users to login to e-business site
through their Facebook or Twitter or Google account. YITH Woo Commerce Social Login, a
plugin that permits the potential clients to get connected to e-business site through their
Facebook, Twitter or Google+ account. A simple action, that yet make life and shop
management much easier, users feel more comfortable in accessing website, login is just a click
far and their propensity to purchase becomes much higher. Research prove that three quarters
of users prefer social login to registration forms and this increases conversion rates and
therefore also sales.
 Wishlist
YITH Woo Commerce Wish list add all Wish list elements to the website. It needs Woo
Commerce to work. What can truly have the effect in changes and measure of offers is
unmistakably the opportunity to share our own particular list of things to get, even on
interpersonal organization and expanding roundabout deals. One is able to envision the
business volume he can produce amid occasions or birthdays, when relatives and companions
will be searching for the list of things to get of customers to purchase a present.
It offer guests visitors, an opportunity to include the results of any other users woo commerce
store to a list of things to get page. With YITH Woo Commerce Wish list one can include a
connection in every item detail page, keeping in mind the end goal to add the items to the list
of things to get page. The plugin will take user to the particular page and the items will be
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 Zoom magnifier
YITH Woo Commerce Zoom Magnifier add zoom impact to item pictures and an adjustable
picture slider. It serves to enhance client experience and enhance the deals.
For guest’s visitors it offers an opportunity to examine in detail the nature of the items. With
YITH Woo Commerce Zoom Magnifier developers can add a zoom impact to all the item
pictures. The WordPress plugin additionally includes a slider underneath the highlighted
picture with the item display pictures.
 Multi-Vender
YITH Woo Commerce Multi-Vendor is a plugin developed to switch the website into a
platform hosting more than one shop, like a multivendor marketplace.
We can convert our WooCommerce website into a marketplace where one can host many
vendor pages and earn commissions from their sales. YITH WooCommerce Multi-Vendor is
the WooCommerce plugin explicitly developed to switch WooCommerce website into a
multivendor platform that will let us earn from commissions without having to lift a finger.
Moreover a multivendor shop brings more traffic to the site and allows us to get a better engine
search positioning. A double, huge benefit from a single WmaooCommerce plugin. And all
free.
 Infinite Scrolling
This plugin add infinite scrolling to archive post or shop page. People have become used to see
contents online in a sequential way, think about Facebook or Twitter, two navigation systems
that now influence how we browse the web. People want everything all right away starting
from top to infinite scroll.
With YITH Infinite Scrolling, one can decide to apply this idea for an immediate and direct
consultation of the page contents. No more loading times caused by the change of the page,
well, no more pages for a unique category of elements. Everything will come in a single
solution, where users, even from a mobile device, will be able to simply scroll down and get
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 Live Chat
YITH Live Chat, an exceptional plugin to make clients feel comfortable as in a physical shop.
They can ask for information and get immediate feedback which can
make our client comfortable as they are in a physical shop
Users need human contact and YITH Live Chat can help them in overcoming the obstacle of
the purchase doubts. Immediate and performing, users will feel just like they are purchasing in
a physical store with this chat. No more time wasted waiting for an answer. A direct contact
for a rapid purchase.
Main features of Live Chat are -
 Customization of the messages (welcome, greetings, offline, busy operators)
 Availability of different tabs, multiple chats
 YITH Maintenance Mode
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2.2.8 DATABASE SNAPSHOTS
Stores Information Regarding all the user’s account and its details.
Table 2.4: Table showing information of registered users
Table 2.5: Showing all tables in our database like comments, sliders, users, links, comments
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2.2.9 E-R DIAGRAM:
Elements in a database are represented by data entries. Data entries represent Entities which
are data objects, e.g., students, courses and instructors. Relationships among entities are
represented by E-R model i.e., entity-relationship diagram e.g., - students take
courses, instructors teach courses. ER model: model data using entities and relationships.
2.2.9.1 E-R MODEL - (WORDPRESS)
Figure 2.11 – E-R Diagram of WordPress

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2.2.9.2 ER MODEL – (WEBSITE)
Figure 2.12 – E-R Diagram of all the entities related to our website like suppliers, product,
orders, users, payments etc..

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CHAPTER 3
RESULTS AND DISCUSSION
The end product of our project is a web based application using PHP and MySQL which is a
platform to sell used items within an institute at a very nominal price.
It has the following features:
 It allows a user to register/login into the website so that a user can have its own
personal account so that he/she can login whenever required.
 The product are categorized according to the categories like electronics items, books,
etc. Users can also use a search bar to search any particular product directly.
 There is a facility to view the product directly as well as user can view the product via
different angles.
 There is an option of adding a product to cart so that user can view the list of all of its
item in his cart at the time of checkout.
 It also provide various types of payment options such as via credit/debit card, cash on
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CHAPTER 4
CONCLUSION
4.1 CONCLUSION
A key result of the innovation upset in India has been availability, which has fuelled
uncommon access to data. The e-commerce business in India might right now be behind its
partners in various created nations and even some developing markets. On the other hand,
with India's GDP development pegged at 6.4% by the International Monetary Fund and the
World Bank, it is anticipated that would grow quickly.
Also, the Indian e-commerce industry has entry to finances from inside of the nation and
global financial specialists. By and large, the e-commerce division is developing and a
number of genuine players are entering the business sector.
In India the piece of the pie is isolated amongst a few e-commerce organizations, each
concocting its own plan of action. Subsequently, clients have an extensive variety of items
and administrations to look over.
4.2 FUTURE WORK
This gist of online shopping is set to see greater heights in coming years. E-Commerce has
changed the way business approach globalisation. Businesses are leaning towards international
Financial Reporting Standards (IFRS), and internet financial reporting, while the former is a
global standard for accounting and financial reporting, the later has been extremely helpful to
E-Commerce companies.
CollegeHaat can be expanded in all over the institutes of India mainly like IIT’s, NIT’s,
different universities, etc. This concept of CollegeHaat can also be used by some of the
websites like OLX, QUIKR who can add the option for buying and selling of goods at an inter
college level.
As most of the big E-Commerce websites are moving toward mobile platform. CollegeHaat
can also be brought to mobile platform by developing the application of CollegeHaat for
android, windows and iOS platforms. As the number of mobile users are increasing at a very
huge rate it is important to bring CollegeHaat to mobile platform also.

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APPENDIX 1
(Appendix) Figure – 1.1 Home page of solution provided
(Appendix) Figure – 1.2 Page showing User Account Details

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(Appendix) Figure – 1.3 Database showing list of Products
(Appendix) Figure – 1.4 Web page showing all the products

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(Appendix) Figure – 1.5 Page showing Product Details in Detailed View
(Appendix) Figure – 1.6 Page showing Product Details in Quick View

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(Appendix) Figure – 1.7 Website Footer – showing categories, ranges, cart and enquiry
form.
(Appendix) Figure – 1.8 AJAX Search, recommending search results on based of keywords
provided

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(Appendix) Figure – 1.9 Chat view from the side of chat operator.
(Appendix) Figure – 1.10 Chat UI for clients / customers