Project Proposal: Price-Tracker Web-Based System

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Team Members: Joshua Farwig and Mackenzie Kudrenecky

Project Description:

For our project, we will be creating a web-based system that will track price drops from e-commerce stores. We are contemplating on scraping price data from grocery stores (save-on-foods), second-hand e-commerce services (facebook marketplace), or eletronic e-commerce stores (newegg). Despite the difference in product content, all functionalities will be the same.

Reference Website: Camel Camel Camel

Reference Website: Grocery Tracker

Languages:

Client Side:

• HTML, CSS, JavaScript

Server Side:

• LAMP Stack (Linus, Apache, MySql, PHP)

Project Frameworks:

Boostrap.CSS

• Will aid in CSS layout for dynamic web-pages

User Requirements:

User functionalities are aggregated bottom-up (User inherits non-user functionality, Admin inherits user and non-user functionality)

• Non-user functionalities
  • Set stores and their respective locations
  • Search for items with search bar query
  • View “Hot” products (biggest price-drop or most-commented on)
  • Filter options for product search
• User functionalities
  • Register account with unique username, password, personal image, and email
  • Password recovery (via email)
  • View / edit profile
  • View product details: description, comments, price history, image, external URL to actual product page on store, etc.
  • Comment / rating on product detail
  • User Saved product page with graphs of price history
    • Email alerts for item price-drops with user set price parameters
    • Product price comparison between different stores
  • Hot Item Tab: products with most comments and largest price-drops
• Admin functionalities
  • Search and filter for user info by username or email
    • User activity
    • Saved Products List
    • Products commented on
  • Be able to delete / create users
  • Be able to delete / create comments