Kingsley Kwabenah Asong
Department Computer Science, Methodist University College, Accra, Ghana
Abstract
This project is based on the computerizations of the manual way of selling and buying items on campus and transforming it into innovative computerized online auction website and activities involved in buying and selling goods and services on campus. This system provides user a convenience way to buy and sell online without any problems. The product will be delivered by an auctioneer anywhere on campus. This project encapsulates all these activities into a single comprehensive database management system that effectively, accurately and in timely fashion delivers all of the above. The business-to-consumer aspect of electronic commerce (e-commerce) is most visible business use on the World Wide Web. The primary goal of e-commerce site is to sell goods and services online. This project deals with developing an e-commerce website for online auction website. It provides the user with different categories of items that can be bought. User can also upload images onto the site. In order to facilitate the online auction, bidding component is provided for users to bid for an item and the highest bidder wins the bid. The system is implemented using a 3-tier approach, with the backend database, a middle tier of Apache and PHP and a web browser as the front end client.
Keywords: Online Auction, Website Development, KAIL
