Simple E-Commerce Site

Due no later than the start of lecture on Friday, February 2^nd

Minimal Requirements

• The project is developed on your laptop.
• The language of the site is either English or German.
• You must work with exactly one other classmate on this project.
• Apache, php, MySQL and XHTML must be used.
• The described functionality below is accessible through a web browser.
• The web site supports two types of registered users: a customer and an administrator.
• A registered user has an account name and a password.
• Anyone (even an unregistered user) may browse the general site without logging in.
• The site contains 2 or more order pages that can be accessed without ordering information getting lost.
• A customer must be logged in to finalize his or her purchase on the check-out page.
• A customer is able to change his or her password.
• The administrator is able to add, delete, modify or list customer accounts.
• The administrator is able to view a summary of all past sales.
• The administrator is able to identify products that are low in stock.
• The administrator is able to examine and modify information pertaining to the different products for sale.

Materials to Submit to John on or Before the Due Date

• A printout of any code that you write.
• A printout of any databases that you produce.
• A printout of an English writeup of your project that includes the following sections:
  1. One Entity-Relationship (ER) Diagram for each of your databases.
  2. A list of any web technologies other than Apache, php, MySQL and XHTML that you used.
  3. A list and description of any enhancements that you have made to your system, above and beyond the set of minimal requirements listed above.
  4. A list and description of all known weaknesses of your system. Weaknesses might include incorrect functionality, poor design decisions, etc. For each weakness, explain in general terms how you would go about fixing it. You will receive more points if you identify a weakness correctly than if you don't identify it at all.

Demonstration

Everyone must give a 30 minute demonstration of their system to John after the project is due. The Online-Anmeldung is available until 18.1. Sign up sheets for the 30 minute demonstrations will be available during lecture on 2.2 for the week of 5.2 - 9.2. Both programming partners must be present for the demonstration.

The demonstration should be done on your computer so that you can ensure that the environment is set up correctly.

Grading

• 10%. Quality of the code that you generate. Make sure that the code is well written and reasonably documented.
• 20%. Quality and accuracy of the writeup.
• 70%. Functionality of the website. Note: you can only receive these points if you do the demonstration.

Grading Notes

• In general, if you do the minimal requirements and you do them extremely well, you can expect to receive a grade of a 2.0 on the project.
• It is expected that you will primarily code the project yourself, as opposed to using tools that automatically generate the code.