🛒 Ecommerce site built using pure PHP & vanilla JS

This project is an ecommerce wesbite built without any frameworks. My goal was to learn how to code a functional application to learn fundamentals of OOP and the MVC architecture while setting up a somewhat modern development environment.

⚒️ This project was built using:

• PHP7
• JavaScript ES6
• Composer packages like:
  • philo/laravel-blade as the template engine
  • PHPMailer: to send emails
  • Omnipay to handle payments through PayPal API
• Webpack & Babel
• Sass

⚙️Installation

If you want to test this project on your local machine, you have to follow these steps:

1. Download the code You can either download the .zip file or run git clone https://github.com/crjoseabraham/ecommerce-NoFramework.git

2. Install dependencies Then, install all dependencies by running: npm install and composer install

3. Import database Go to your database manager and import the .sql file located in resources/data/. The CREATE DATABASE command is included already.

4. Update environment variables Create a .env file and set the following variables:

       URLROOT
       SECRET_KEY
       ------------------
       DB_HOST
       DB_USER
       DB_PASS
       DB_NAME
       ------------------
       BRAND_EMAIL
       BRAND_EMAIL_PASS
       ------------------
       PAYPAL_EMAIL
       PAYPAL_USERNAME
       PAYPAL_PASSWORD
       PAYPAL_SIGNATURE
       PAYPAL_CLIENT_ID
       PAYPAL_SECRET
   

   And change the project base URL in resources/scripts/CartUI.js which is set up for localhost (lines 77 and 116).

   An small thing you may want to change or even delete is the timezone I set in public/index.php because I used my timezone

   date_default_timezone_set('America/Caracas');

🏆 Goals achieved

• Learn the principles of OOP and how to apply the MVC architecture
• How to work with sessions and cookies in PHP
• Implement user authentication (logging in, logging out, remember session, recover passwords, etc.).
• Work with third party libraries
• Practice modern JavaScript and transpile it using Webpack and Babel
• Basics of version control with Git (work with repos, commits, branching and merging).
• Set up PayPal sandbox

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