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13.0. Conclusion
The Internet has become a major resource in modern business, thus electronic
shopping has gained significance not only from the entrepreneur’s but also from
the customer’s point of view. For the entrepreneur, electronic shopping generates
new business opportunities and for the customer, it makes comparative shopping
possible. As per a survey, most consumers of online stores are impulsive and
usually make a decision to stay on a site within the first few seconds. “Website
design is like a shop interior. If the shop looks poor or like hundreds of other shops
the customer is most likely to skip to the other site”. Hence we have designed the
project to provide the user with easy navigation, retrieval of data and necessary
feedback as much as possible. In this project, the user is provided with an e-
commerce web site that can be used to buy books online. To implement this as a
web application we used PHP as the Technology. PHP (XAMPP) has several
advantages such as enhanced performance, scalability, built- in security and
simplicity. To build any web application using PHP we need a programming
language such as JAVA, HTML # and so on. JAVA SCRIPT was the language
used to build this application. PHP uses MySQL server to interact with the
database as it provides in-memory caching that eliminates the need to contact the
database server frequently and it can easily deploy and maintain an PHP
application. MySQL was used as back-end database since it is one of the most
popular open source databases, and it provides fast data access, easy installation
and simplicity.
A good shopping cart design must be accompanied with user-friendly shopping
cart application logic. It should be convenient for the customer to view the contents
of their cart and to be able to remove or add items to their cart. The shopping cart
application described in this project provides a number of features that are
designed to make the customer more comfortable. This project helps in
understanding the creation of an interactive web page and the technologies used to
implement it. The design of the project which includes Data Model and Process
Model illustrates how the database is built with different tables, how the data is
accessed and processed from the tables. The building of the project has given me a
precise knowledge about how PHP is used to develop a website, how it connects to
the database to access the data and how the data and web pages are modified to
provide the user with a shopping cart application.