About The Project

Video Demo

Laravel Shopping Cart is a full stack implementation of a web-based shopping cart in Laravel/PHP.

Built With

• Laravel
• PHP/Composer
• Bootstrap 4.6.2 (JQuery)
• HTML/CSS, JavaScript
• MySQL
• XAMPP
• Git

Features

• Product Management

  • List products in database
  • Include product name, description, price, image
  • Add, edit, delete products from database

• Shopping Cart

  • Browse full list of products
  • Add, edit, remove products from cart
  • Update product quantity

• Checkout

  • Session based
  • Create order and empty cart
  • View past orders

Missing Features

• Individual product pages
• Edit product (front-end)
• Collect shipping information at checkout
• View past orders (multiple)

Getting Started

To run a full stack project, you need both front-end and back-end applications, and a database to store your data.

To run a local copy of my project, follow these steps.

Prerequisites

Download and install the following:

• Laravel
• Composer
• XAMPP
• Node.js

Installation

Laravel's Installation Guide

1. Run cmd or terminal, confirm Composer and NPM is installed

     composer

     npm -v

2. Create a new Laravel project, follow installer setup

   Select PHPUnit as your framework, MySQL as your database

     laravel new Ecommerce

3. Open project folder in IDE

   Locate .env file, rename db_database

     DB_CONNECTION=mysql
     DB_HOST=127.0.0.1
     DB_PORT=3306
     DB_DATABASE=laraveldb
     DB_USERNAME=root
     DB_PASSWORD=
   

4. Download database: laraveldb.sql

5. Open XAMPP Control Panel, start Apache and MySQL servers

6. Confirm MySQL is running

     http://localhost/phpmyadmin/
   

7. Go to Import tab, import laraveldb.sql database

8. Clone this repo

     git clone https://github.com/m-bien/CSC-471-Laravel-Shopping-Cart.git
   

9. Copy paste cloned files into your project folder

10. Start server

      php artisan serve
    

11. View project in browser

      http://localhost:8000    
    

12. Done! Use ChatGPT for troubleshooting