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1. Client Requirement
Client requirement is to create a Magento store for online sales of rugs. Client is a retailer who aims to
become America’s favorite rug store. Client believes that buying the right rug with the proper
information on color, texture and quality becomes very difficult over the internet. Client wishes to offer
customers with ample choices, great customer service, outstanding brands and competitive prices.
Ecommerce websites provide dynamic functionalities for customers to conveniently and quickly select
products that they wish to purchase and make payments with safe and secure transaction methods. This
includes a database driven shopping cart system, shipping modules and payment gateways along with
features to enhance user experience to enable sales for the client.
The website requires the import of data and images from third party vendors using a CSV file. Customers
should be able to choose from the available options presented to them for all available products and
select the ones they want. The project is based on an online shopping system that enables suppliers to
sell products directly to customers. Facility to offer discounts to customers to enhance their shopping
experience should also be incorporated in the ecommerce website.
Functionalities that client expected were:
 Payment gateway integration (authorize.net)
 Shipping system should be free.
 Order Management
 Inventory management
 Microsoft C5 ERP system integration
 User friendly website design

2. Challenges
The following challenges were faced by the team:
 A busy shopping site that is capable of handling millions of connections without slowing
down.
 Web usability principles needed to be incorporated to ensure convenience of navigation for
all types of users.
 ERP Integration and data synchronization with the ecommerce site on a regular basis for all
types of products.
 Safe and secure data transfer.
Technologies Used
Operating System & Server
Management
Red Hat Linux OS, Multi-Server Architecture with Staging & Production
Environment through Version Controlling releases, Server Optimization,
Security & SSL Implementation, Scheduler for Back-ups, Alert Monitoring
System Integration, Server Performance Tuning at regular intervals, Software
Firewall Configuration & Maintenance
Development Tools &
Environments
PHP5+, Magento, Apache Web Server, AJAX, HTML, CSS etc.
Database MYSQL Database Server, DB Clustering, DB Optimization, Master Slave
Replication, Query Optimization, Scheduler for Backups

3. Manpower
Planning
Keeping in mind the structure of the website and the challenges involved, a four-tier development
approach was adopted, consisting of:
 The Database layer containing MySQL Server Database, Tables, stored procedures and so on.
 The Data Access layer that contains libraries for accessing data from the database.
 The Business Logic layer consisting of all business logic procedures for modules shipping,
payment gateway, order management etc.
 The User Interface Layer forms the Graphical User Interface of the website.
Architecture
The site contained rich user data and extensive capabilities for online shopping, hence the design
approach was built around PHP and MySQL Server. Shipping Management, Order Management,
Inventory Management etc. were developed in PHP to be directly executed from the UI layer. The PHP
files consisted of all Business logics used for respective modules like Save (Add/Update), Delete, Get
single object, get multiple objects for listing and were designed to be capable of handling many more
logics which were not related to the database.The data access layer contained the libraries enables data
access from the database and helped build queries for insert, update, delete and select depending on
the business class. The business layer components were coded to use this specific library. Stored
procedures were used only for complex retrieval of data from multiple tables and were entirely avoided
with conditional syntax to ensure smooth performance of the website. The UI layer was kept free of any
business logic and images and other data were called from their respective servers.
Project Leader 1
Developers 2
Designers 2
Quality Assurance Testers 1

4. Development Highlights
The massive ecommerce website was successfully developed with the said capabilities and was able to
successfully handle all the orders, shipping, payment and other activities related to ecommerce. All the
groundwork and research was carried out for building a website with heavy customizations, features
and at the same time building a robust site capable of processing millions of transactions and live
connections daily. Web usability guidelines were followed with the judicious use of AJAX, CSS and HTML
controls. The site was developed within a short span of 6 months.