Designing an Inventory Database System

CS489 Research Project in Computer Science John Ahigian Advisor: Dr. Wang

Project Goal

The project goal: to design a real time inventory database online.

Online Store in HTML / PHP (Hypertext Preprocessor) / and MYSQL

My website can help business owner(s) in two or more different locations keep a product inventory in sync.

Online Inventory

Managerial Administrative Options

Functions: Adding Products Removing Products Edit Product Search Displaying Current Inventory

Project Overview

Basic Overview of Project

CS489_Independent_Research_Files3 main HTML Files

zeus.vwc.edu/~jhahigian40+ Files

HTML / PHP FilesDirectories: /store /images

Store13 Main / Files

over 10+ files in 4 Directories

Images14 (.png's / .jpg's / .gif's)

Public_Html

PHP File

HTML Store Directory /Images

My Database

Product / Description

Cost

Quantity

SSH

SSH (secure file transfer) is what you need to use in order to maintain your directories and files on zeus.

FTP updated files and over write them in the public_html directory.

Coded in HTML and PHP to communicate with the database written in MySQL.

Why an Online Store?

Manager and Staff

Best way to show Inventory real time in order for business to run properly

Customers can see Manager / Staff changes instantly after being edited

Searching for Products

Manager / Staff can search by vendor name separated with a hyphen.

Customers can search by brand name or product

(Inventory entered in already) Apple, Hardware, Software, Phones, Cameras (etc.)

Conclusion

Online Store is best way to prove an Inventory Database works because you need one.

My Inventory Database that is managed by staff can be accessed privately by them

Publishes real time for customers to see updates.

Added mailing list database for subscribers

Check it out!

My Workspace