README.md

ChipShop

Online electronics store. Website using PHP scripting language.

Basic user functionality

• Convenient interface;
• Browse products by category;
• Receiving e-mail messages about order status;
• View reviews;
• Add reviews;
• Add and manage products in the cart;
• Search by product name;
• Filtering goods by: date, sales, best estimate, number of reviews, price;
• Receive similar products;
• Infinite scrolling;
• Add product to favorites for subscription to discounts;
• Account Management;
• Avatar profile for reviews;
• Automatic image cropping;
• Forgotten password recovery via email;
• Indexing in the database for quick search.

Basic admin functionality

• Convenient admin panel;
• Adding categories;
• Creating and editing products;
• Automatic image cropping;
• Adding discounts for certain products;
• User and Moderator Management;
• Reviews Management.

Admin can

• Ban users;
• Remove reviews;
• Create, edit and delete supercategories, categories and subcategories. Deleting also deletes all child categories, which makes them invisible to users.;
• Manage subcategory specifications;
• Manage goods and promotions;
• Manage orders.

Moderator can

• Can manage goods and orders
• Remove reviews.

Documentation

• Admin - role 3;
• Moderator - role 2;
• User - role 1;
• To recover a password, check token is used. Tokken expires in 10 minutes;
• Email notifications for purchases, order status changes and promotions for users who have added the product to their favorites;
• Uploaded images should be no more than 5 MB of jpg, jpeg, gif or png format;
• Error 400 (bad request) to add / edit invalid product image for administrator/moderator;
• When adding a new product, you need to define 3 images;
• When editing the product must be identified 3 images or none;
• Before creating a new product, you must first create a super category, category, subcategory, and specifications. Then create a new product;
• After adding a product to a specific subcategory, you cannot add new specifications to it;
• You can create a product for a subcategory with no specifications;
• The best-selling products is a products that have an order status of 3 (completed), multiplied by the number of goods ordered;
• Cannot add promotions to invisible item.

Used tools and technologies

• Visual Studio Code with extensions: PHP IntelliSense, PHP IntelliSense – Crane, PHP Debug, PHP Namespace Resolver, PHP Getters & Setters, HTML CSS Support, EJS language support.
• MariaDB 10.1.31;
• Back-end by PHP 7.2.3;
• Front-end by HTML, CSS, JS;
• Libraries: JQuery, Bootstrap, Font Awesome;
• Others: FlexSlider, ImageZoom, Infinity Scroll W3 Slider, Google Fonts, Composer, XAMPP, PHP Mailer, htaccess.

Design patterns

• Front and Back-end parts;
• Model View Controller (MVC);
• Data Access Objects (DAO);
• PDO, OOP;
• Namespaces;
• Singletons;
• Autoloaders.