Hi, friends
Want to know how to make an e-commerce website in 15min in 2020
Good Decision, i will guide you completely Step by Step to create an e-commerce platform just like Amazon, AliBaba, Flipkart, food delivery website like Swiggy, Foodpanda, clothing website like Myntra, JABONG etc
This guide is for beginner only, who don’t have any experience on any programming knowledge such as PHP, JAVA, Python, etc
Tutorial is Based on CMS system, if you don’t know about what is CMS, no need to worry my friend, at the end of this session you will have a good knowledge about CMS and How to use CMS
What is CMS ?
CMS is stands for content management system, i know now you have a question inn your mind what is content management system, in very simple word it is a type of content management tool that help you to build a website or web application without doing worry about coding. It have complete graphical interface which require’s only customization according to user’s need. click Here to read more understanding of content management system
Top 3 CMS for E-commerce
- WordPress
- Opencart
- Magento
As far as i know these 3 are the most widely used CMS in the world for e-commerce. Now again one question in your mind out of these three which one is good?. if you ask from me i would like to go with Opencart because of light-weighted and very grate experience i have on it. Different developer may have different opinion, that is absolutely fine.
Steps to create E-commerce website
Step 1: Install Xampp server in your computer
link to downnload Xampp
- For Mac (Download Xampp for Mac)
- For Windows (Download Xampp for windows)
- For Linux (Download Xampp for Linux)
What is Use of Xampp Software
To begain development we required some tools such as Text editor, apache server, mysql server, etc. To install apache server and mysql server in our window individually is very difficult task, so to save our time and efforts we install xampp software which create a apache as well as mysql server in our computer by which we can create our own localhost server.
if you don’t know how to install Xampp in windows click here to know
Step 2: After successfully installation of Xampp in your computer, go to c drive or the location where you had install the xampp. now you xan see there is xampp folder
Step 3: Start the xampp server and mysql
once you will successfully start its looks like same as in snapshot
name of your folder should be (your website name)
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Step 6: Copy the openncart-3.0.3.3.zip folder to your website named folder
now extract the openncart-3.0.3.3.zip
Now open extracted folder -> now you can see there are some and and one upload folder
Step 7: Copy all inner content of upload folder to your website root folder. and delete the .zip file and openncart-3.0.3.3 folder
Note:- now your website folder only contain these files
Step 8: Rename confid-dist.php to config.php
Step 9: Go to admin folder and rename confid-dist.php to config.php
Step 10: Open chrome and type URL : – localhost/phpmyadmin
click on New and create database (ex myshop)
Step 11: Now open new tab and type url localhost/your website name
example : – localhost/myshop
Now you can see this type of configuration screen, if you did not get this screen you should read the article again and repeat these steps
Step 12: Click on continue button
if you see this error Check the step 8 & 9
4. Please make sure you have set the correct permissions on the files list below.
If everything is good then it should look like
4. Please make sure you have set the correct permissions on the files list below.
Step 13 : click on continue
Now you can see database configuration page here you have to fill database name, user and password
DB Driver -> MYSQLi
Hostname -> localhost
Username -> Root (This is default mysql username )
Password -> (no need to fill, by default password is empty)
Database -> myshop (same database name that we create in step 10)
Port -> 3306
Prefix -. oc_
2. Please enter a username and password for the administration. This section is for admin credentials
Set you username, password and emai id for your admin panel
Click on continue
Step 14: If everything you had done properly you should able to see this screen
Step 15: Go to drive (c) -> xampp -> htdocs -> myshop -> delete folder “install”
Step16: Now go back to the browser
Now you can click on “go to your shop ” or “Login to Administrator”
Congrats Your website is ready to use now
