Software_engineering project

An online shopping website to buy and sell of merchandise among college students.

Why it’s cool:

• No third party is involved.
• Buy and sell textbooks directly with students at your university. Meet on-campus to the deal.
• There are no transaction fees involved.
• Cheap College Textbooks
• Price Comparison
• No shipping. No credit cards.
• Everything is on one platform, which makes it super easy!
• If you decide you want to buy a rental, just contact the site.
• Buy directly from other students and save big

Installation 💻

Step 1: Install XAMPP or WAMPP.

Step 2: Open XAMPP Control panal and start [apache] and [mysql].

Step 3: Download project from github(https://github.com/laasyasree/Software_engineering.git)

OR follow gitbash commands

cd C:\\xampp\htdocs\ 
git clone https://github.com/laasyasree/Software_engineering.git

Step 4: Extract files in C:\xampp\htdocs.

Step 5: Open link localhost/phpmyadmin

Step 6: Click on new at side navbar.

Step 7: Give a database name as per in sql file and hit the create button. Create the database with data.

Step 8: Open any browser and run

Features✨

1. Authentication - Registeration of new users and authorization of already registered using signup page and login page respectively.
2. Main Feed - The home screen will have a main feed with all the products uploaded by the students(sellers).
3. Upload Option - Upload option for all users, on home screens, which allow the role of seller - upload of image and basic details of the product is possible which, once submitted, will get added into the database.
4. Browsing feature for users - Display of products according to date/time(recent uploads) with suggestions to the products uploaded by recently-visited sellers.
5. Search bars and filters - According to the product details entered by the user, the products are displayed via system searches (through product categories in the database).
6. Add to Cart - they can also add the product to their carts for future.
7. Alert/Notifications - the seller will receive notifications about the buyer of his/her product and will have the option of accepting or rejecting the request.
   • If accepted by the seller - it will provide an instant messaging option between the buyer and the seller.
   • If rejected by the seller - the buyer will get a notification saying the product is unavailable.
8. Chat option - A chat window between the buyer and seller, upon the request being accepted by the seller will allow further communications and follow-ups regarding the exchange and transaction of the product.
9. Checkout and Delete Option - Checkout option for the user, which when clicked on by both parties after the offline product exchange, will result in deletion of the product.

Tech Stack 🔩

• HTML
• CSS
• PHP
• MySql