Arnold Geraldo Designing and Making of The Online Auction Website Using CakePHP Framework

Overview  Background  Objective  CakePHP Framework  LelangHunter.co.cc  Conclusion

Background  Limited by distance and time.  Less efficient and time consuming.  In seller side, difficulty in finding buyers.  In buyer side, difficulty to obtain goods by an appropriate price.

Objective  Designing and creating an online auction system as a tool that can assist members to sell and buy goods in accordance with the auction system.  Identify, learn and implement the concept of Model-View-Controller (MVC) in the development of a site.  Identify, learn and be able to use CakePHP Framework.

PHP FRAMEWORK CakePHP Framework

What is CakePHP Framework?  An open source web application framework for producing web applications.  It is written in PHP, modeled after the concepts of Ruby on Rails, and distributed under the MIT License.

Features (1)  Compatible with PHP4 and PHP5  Integrated CRUD for database and simplified querying  Request dispatcher with custom URLs  Templating (PHP syntax with helper methods)  View helpers for AJAX, Javascript, HTML forms  Website directory independent

Features (2)  Built-in validation  Access control lists (ACL)  Application scaffolding  Data sanitization  Security, session, and request handling components  View caching

CakePHP Framework Advantages  Open Source  MVC architecture  Timely Delivery and Deployment  Easily Upgradable Code

CakePHP Framework Process

Applications Developed For The Final Task LelangHunter.co.cc

Context Diagram

DFD – User Part 1

DFD – User Part 2

DFD - Administrator Part 1

DFD - Administrator Part 2

Flowchart – Main Page

Flowchart – Administrator Main Page

Conceptual Data Modeling

Physical Data Modeling

Features  Give Testimonial  Posting a Commercial Advs  Upload Company Logo  View of Company profile  validation for new member

Conclusion  Developing a website using CakePHP framework is very structured and easy to maintain  With this online auction site, users can be assisted in conducting the auction transactions more efficient and not much time consuming  Administrator can obtain reports from the web statistic page in the form of graphs