University of Bahrain

Information Technology College

Computer Science Department

Semester 1, Year 2006/2007

ITCS 373: Class Lab Work

E-commerce1

 

 

Instructor: Dr. Eshaa M. Alkhalifa

 

You should know how to write server side scripts by now.  I will give you a copy of freely availably shopping cart scripts that you must install on your own.

 

  1. Click on the icon to start the installation process.  Accept the agreement.  It will as you if it is to install it to a remote machine or this machine.  Choose the option to install it to this machine.  Click on next.
  2. It will ask you:  this installer will save the files into the location specified below  so click on the browse button to the right to find this directory on your computer c:\AppServ\www\ShopScript\ and if it does not exist, make a new ShopScript directory on your computer, and then find it. Click on next.
  3. It will ask you for the URL of the server, check that your server is working by opening a browser window to localhost.  If it is not working turn it on manually through start/programs/AppServ/control server by manual/Apache start.
  4. Type the word localhost/ShopScript as your URL.  Then click on next.  Do not click on the checkbox.
  5. Click on install and then click on finish.
  6. It will open a browser window that looks like the one below;

  1. You must fill in the data required.  Your user name is “user” because we added this user name to our database, and our password is “pass”.  The database name is “ourdata”.
  2. To make extra sure that this works properly, go to phpmyadmin and make sure that you delete every single table you have in that database.  You select your database that is called ourdata then select each table from the list on the left, and select the drop tab at the top right of the screen.
  3. Make sure that the Fill database with demo content checkbox is checked.
  4. Click on install.  It will tell you that the installation is successful, then you must click on proceed to my shopping cart.
  5. You will now see another screen that looks like this

  1. It tells you to delete the file that is called install.php from the shop-script folder.  So you go to the folder which is located at c:\AppServ\www\ShopScript\ and delete the file install.php.
  2. Refresh the screen and you will notice that the comment at the top has disappeared.
  3. Browse through your shopping cart and add items as you wish.
  4. Click on proceed to checkout and insert the following information as shown below. 

  1. Click on place order.  You will find a few errors appearing. 2 for email because we did not install an email server. 1 for headers which implies that header information is sent late within the text.
  2. Type the following URL and go the page; http://localhost/ShopScript/access_admin.php then type your user name which is admin and password 1234.

  1. You will see the page displayed above which represents the control panel of your shopping cart.
  2. Go to the catalog tab.  Click on Alcohol which is directly below beverages.  We do not wish this category to exist in our store.  Wait until you see the screen on the right.  Uncheck the checkboxes next to the drinks below the Enable column, then click on save.  Open a new screen and check that the drinks disappeared from the store.  However the category alcohol still exists.
  3. Go back to the browser window that shows you the admin page and click on edit which is a hyperlink next to the category alcohol.  A pop up window will appear.  Click on Delete to delete this category and then click on OK.
  4. Go back to the admin page and refresh it to find that the alcohol category has been deleted.
  5. Now go to check the orders tab.  You will find the order that we attempted to make that failed listed there.
  6. Then go to configuration.  Here you can insert information about your store. And Connect it to PayPal.