E-commerce solution : creating a shopping cart using open sources (APACHE/MYSQL/PHP)

Abstract

In recent years, the power of the Internet has popularized the notion of electronic commerce, which offers many advantages for businesses as well as regular daily life. It has made communication, collaboration, traveling extremely easy. Consumers can access the digital business environments with a click of a mouse and participate in on-line business transactions more easily than by the use of traditional methods. This evolution is a prime phenomenon in the modern business world.

This thesis work illustrates the basic concepts of E-Commerce as well as highlights the general operating mechanisms of a Shopping Cart. Through a collective study of Information and Communication Technology and Commercial activities running with its aid, this work is an attempt to understand the ideas and trends as well as the security matters of an E-Business. The Shopping Cart is used primarily in online retail stores that offer their products via the internet. It is a simple illustration of the offered products through a dynamic interface which is backed by various web technologies such as PHP Scripting / Web Programming Language Technology, MySQL Database and various other micro-web applications. This thesis was conducted by literature, articles released on the Internet, and discussions with experts.

Furthermore, this thesis has provided the basic concepts for developing an E-commerce site using a shopping cart with Internet technologies such as PHP, MySQL. The goal of this thesis is to provide a secure shopping cart for E-commerce that helps customers and merchants to confidently buy safely in the most popular sites on the web.