InstallationGuide v1

SIT302 Project
Installation Guide
Online Book Store
GROUP 6
YOUSEF NAIF A ALHARBI
NOHA JAMALI A SALEM
FAISAL ABDULLAH M BIN GHIMLAS
AHMED AL SHAMISI
ABDULLAH ALDOKHIIL
AVIRAJ KAMBOJ
JALAB JALBANI
Table of Contents
Table of Contents..................................................................................................................................2
1.0 Introduction.....................................................................................................................................3
1.1 Document Purpose......................................................................................................................3
2.0 Navigation........................................................................................................................................3
3.0 System architecture.........................................................................................................................3
4.0 Technologies used...........................................................................................................................4
5.0 Installation steps..............................................................................................................................4
5.0 Database installation.......................................................................................................................5
6.0 Web Server Code Installation..........................................................................................................6
7.0 Setup database configuration..........................................................................................................6
8.0 Bibliography.....................................................................................................................................7
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1.0 Introduction
1.1 Document Purpose
The purpose of this document is to provide a comprehensive programmer’s guide. This document
explains the details that a programmer will need in order to maintain and enhance the Online Book
Store system.
2.0 Navigation
3.0 System architecture
Figure 1: Three tier website architecture
The architecture of the system is standard 3-tier architecture for web systems. The following table
explains the components of the system that belong in each of the layers of the 3-tier architecture:
Architecture Layer System Component
User The end-user of the system. There are two types of end-
users in the system:
1. The shoppers who will access the front end of the
system
2. The administrators (the business owners) who will
manage product catalogues, order history and will
be responsible for shipping orders

Browser The web browser will be the client side software used to
access the system (both the front-end and the
administration section).
PHP Script The PHP scripts will be the native PHP code and the PDO
libraries to render the administration section and the front-
end to the users.
Database The database will be a MySQL database that will store all
data for the system.
4.0 Technologies used

Technology Name Description
MySQL 5.0+ The MySQL Technology has been used for the database.
Uses MySQL for all data storage including configuration
data, user data, product data and order data.
The MySQL 5.0+ version is used.
The testing has occurred for at least MySQL 5.0 and MySQL
5.5.
PHP 4.0+ The PHP Server Side programming language is used for
rendering server side information and developing the
shopping cart.
Objective oriented PHP should have been used.
The view, model and data have been clearly separated.
PDO PHP Database Library 3.0+ The PDO Database library has been used to protect against
the database sq. injection attacks.
5.0 Installation steps

The MVC model for code development has been used for the purpose of this project. The following
example explains the general coding structure used in the website development.
Task Task Details

Purchase domain name A domain name will need to be purchased, e.g. from
GoDaddy.com
Purchase database hosting Database hosting will need to be purchased. The database
hosting must be MySQL. Minimum space of 100MB will be
needed.
Purchase web hosting File hosting will need to be purchased. Minimum of 500MB
of file storage will be required.
Link the domain name to the hosting The name servers are provided by the domain name hosting.
These domain name servers will need to be linked to the

Task Task Details
hosting.
Setup FTP accounts on the web server An FTP account will need to be created so that files can be
uploaded and downloaded to the web server.
Upload the PHP code to the server. Using the FTP client (e.g. FileZilla), upload the provided PHP
code to the web server.
Create and setup the database Create a database on the database hosting
Setup a user account for the database
Update the configuration file in the provided web code and
put the host, database name, user and password in it
Run the provided dbscript.sql
5.0 Database installation

1. Go to PhpMyAdmin
2. Go to “Databases”
3. Enter the database name,e.g. “shopping_db”
Figure 2
4. Once the database has been created, select the database from the left hand side navigation bar.
5. Now open the database script provided, “shoppingdb.sql” and copy all of the contents so that
they are in the clipboard.
6. Go to the “SQL” table and paste the contents.

Figure 3
7. Click on “Go”
8. Now the database has been setup.
9. Go to the database to ensure that the following tables have been setup correctly.
Figure 4
6.0 Web Server Code Installation

1. Copy the provided folder “assignment”
2. Paste the folder into c:\xampp\htodcs (or the base folder of the web server)
7.0 Setup database configuration

1. Open the file “includes/db.inc.php”
2. Now change the following three components of the database.
try
$pdo = new PDO('mysql:host=servername;dbname=databasename', 'username','password');

$pdo->setAttribute(PDO::ATTR_ERRMODE, PDO::ERRMODE_EXCEPTION);
$pdo->exec('SET NAMES "utf8"');
catch (PDOException $e)
$error = 'A connection with the database failed.'.$e;
include 'error.html.php';
exit();
Server Name The server name is localhost if the database and the web server are on the same box.
Otherwise, the hosting provider will provide a server name.
Database Name The database name is the database name created in the previous step.
User Name The user name for database.
Password The password for database.
8.0 Bibliography
Ideal Software, Installation Guide Template, accessed on 18 January 2015 at
https://doc.ez.no/content/download/24948/102690/version/3/file/ezflow_setup-1.1.pdf

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3.0 System architecture

Figure 1: Three tier website architecture

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4.0 Technologies used

5.0 Installation steps

Task Task Details

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5.0 Database installation

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6.0 Web Server Code Installation

7.0 Setup database configuration

$pdo = new PDO('mysql:host=servername;dbname=databasename', 'username','password');

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$pdo->exec('SET NAMES "utf8"');

catch (PDOException $e)

$error = 'A connection with the database failed.'.$e;

User Name The user name for database.

Password The password for database.

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