creating an ecommerce site

[waiguru]

i am a php developer and wants to develop an ecommerce website where users can make postings of motorbikes to sell. Users should also be able to browse existing postings and search for bikes using set parameters. Anyone with clues on how I can go about building such a website? Thanks

Edited August 1, 2013 by waiguru

[KevinM1]

Do you know how to validate and process forms?

 

Do you know how to do CRUD (CReate, Update, Delete) operations on a database?

[waiguru]

yes i do

[KevinM1]

Okay, so what about e-commerce is confusing you specifically? Most of what you described that you want to do is merely creating the appropriate database schema and running queries against it.

 

Put another way, if you know how to store motorcycle information, you should be able to retrieve it. You might want to add some niceties, but that insert/update -> display cycle is the meat and potatoes of your proposed site.

[waiguru]

Thanks kelvin, but i also want to implement a search where users can search a motorbike following a given category lets say by make and features like the recent adds or the most featured bikes. i really appreciate your help thanks.

[KevinM1]

It's the same kind of thing - database manipulation.

 

Recent entries? Have a db column that stores a date and pick the most recent 5, 10, whatever (SELECT * FROM bikes ORDER BY date DESC LIMIT 5). Search can be a bit more involved, depending on how you want to do it. Easiest would just be having checkboxes that help limit the search criteria. Each box would essentially represent an addition to a WHERE clause.

Edited August 1, 2013 by KevinM1

[waiguru]

Thanks for that.

[waiguru]

Hi Kelvin. I decided to use codeigniter but am having one problem for example if i want a seller to store more than one image.