MCSP - 060

Online Flower and Gift Shop

by
Student’s Full Name

Enrolment No:
0000
Under Guidance
of
Mr.

Submitted to the School of Computer and Information Sciences, IGNOU in

partial fulfillment of the requirements
for the award of the degree
Master of Computer Applications (MCA)
Year of Submission 2010

Indira Gandhi National Open University

Maidan Garhi
New Delhi – 110068.

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Table of Contents

Title of the project.

Introduction and objectives of the Project. Project category.

Tools/Platform,Hardware and Software Requirement specifications.

Problem Definition , Requirement Specification,Project Planning and Sheduling

Analysis (DFDs, ER Diagrams, Class Diagrams etc.)

A complete structure Which includes :

(i) Number of modules and their description to provide an estimation of the student’s
effort on the project.

(ii) Data Structures as per the project requirements for all the modules.

(iii) Process Logic of each module.

(iv) Implementation methodology

(v) Report generation.

Implementation of security mechanisms at various levels

Scope of future application.

Bibliography

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Project Title

Title:
Online flower and Gift shop

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Project Introduction and Objective

This is a project to create an electronic system that will provide the Web interface for potential
customers can buy online flowers and gifts.

• View and select the items such as roses, bouquets, blooming and green plants, and fruit and
goodies baskets as for sale they are interested to buy.

• To register users to become members.

• Customer can create account to store address information.
• View order history and to receive notice of promotions and new products.

• It will be able to manage the flower and gift items by adding, deleting and modifying details

• It should also be able to automatically generate emails to be sent to members .

New System will be help user to shop flower and Bonquets on line and it Help client to
increase the sale of the flowers. System Consist of the following features:
1. Online Flower and Gift Interface
a. Home.
b. By Occasion (customer can shop by occasion).
c. By Product (customer can shop by product).
d. Get Catalogue.
e. Our Services.
f. Enquires.
g. Contact us.
h. About us.
i. Customer Login.
j. New Customer Registration and Services.
k. Admin Login
i. Add/delete/modify flowers.
l. Other Features
i. Express Services.
ii. FAQ.

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 iii. Polices.
iv. Privacy.
v. Sitemap.
vi. Contact us.
vii. Disclaimer.
viii. Search by Price.

Purpose:
 This is a project to create an electronic system that will provide the Web interface for potential
customers can buy online flowers.
 View and select the items such as roses, bouquets, blooming and green plants, and fruit and goodies
baskets as for sale they are interested to buy.
 To register users to become members.
 Customer can create account to store address information.
 View order history and to receive notice of promotions and new products.
 It will be able to manage the flower items by adding, deleting and modifying details
 It should also be able to automatically generate emails to be sent to members

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Tools/Platform,Hardware and Software Requirement specifications

Software:
Major software tool will be ASP. Net for coding and programming to make the website.
SQL server database to hold a large number of transaction record, customer details, payment details, order
details etc.
Web server IIS (Internet information server) to upload the website.

Other software:
MS Word for documentation, MsProject for project plan that is assigning different t
tasks to the individual team member.
We will also be using Microsoft Excel software to calculate the cost /budget for the
project. Dream weaver for web interface, adobe Photoshop for graphics etc.

Hardware

Server Side
Operating System: Windows 2000 Advanced Server/ 2003 advanced server
Processor: Pentium 4 3.0 GHz or higher
RAM: 512 Mb or more
Hard Drive: 200 GB or more

Client side

Operating System: Windows 9x or above, MAC or UNIX (Windows XP Preferred)

Processor: Pentium III 2.0 GHz or higher
RAM: 256 Mb or more
Graphics card to view the pictures

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Problem Definition:

Almost every activity in the world today is controlled by computer driven software
programs. His trend was first accommodated by engineering applications in the past. However,
as the life style became more and more complex, every area of human interactions was invaded
by various software systems, such as real time, business, simulation, embedded, web based,
personal and more recently, artificial intelligence software etc.

According to the above facts, managing and maintaining a online flower and Gift shop
could also be controlled by efficient software. This project focuses attention on designing
efficient and reliable software which controls the transactions of a flower and Gift shop.

In real world, it tends to associate with automated systems as they provide many benefits
than doing the same thing in manually. As above mentioned, here we have introduced a system
which can be used to maintain a flower and Gift shop.

When we are concerning the manual process of a flower and Gift shop, the major
problem is the waste of time. A customer has to waste his/her valuable time when he needs to
buy a flower and Gift shop as all the events such as searching, purchasing are done by members
of the staff .In briefly, the manual process is very slow. But automation will reduce the time
taken in the whole process.

Scenario: -

Person: - Mrs Banerjee is a Business person of a multinational company from Calcutta, India and
She is on the business tour on Australia.
Steps: - 1. She wants to give flower to her boy friend in Kolkata on the Eve of Valentine day.
2. She decides to give red roses on this occasion.
3. She is new in the cities and doesn’t know much about the shopping palaces.
4. She is busy too with the meeting with the clients.

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5. She don’t has time to go shop and buy flower and ordered it for deliver to overseas.
6. She decided to buy flowers online to avoid all the frustration.
7. She visits on our website i.e India flower online .
8. She selects the beautiful flower bookie with gift items.
9. She buy it and odered it for deliver to Kolkata; India.
10. She was happy after shopping with us its too easy and she save her time as well.

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SRS

Product Function analysis

Functional
The Functional requirements for the product have been discussed below:

Home Page
This page will contain an overview of the whole site which will include different selling flowers and
products with little description. Also
 Shop name and logo
 A search engine for browsing purpose
 Login for already users and signup for new user
 Link to the other pages of the site
 And a site navigation bar.

Flower Order form

Functionality: -
User will go to the website. Browse Through and select flower after that fill up order
form providing their address, name, payment details etc.

Occasion selection

Functionality: -
User will be choosing one or several specific occasions such as mother’s day or
valentine day, birthday, marriage etc. The website will take the user to the flowers available for that
specific occasion.

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Bouquets or baskets

Functionality: -
User could be choosing different flowers and can ask to make a bouquet. There will
be some sample provided for the baskets and bouquets from which customer can pickup.

Customer registration:

Functionality: -
Customer visit the site, there will be some promotional offers and discounts for the
registered users and regular buyers. User might like to make a log in account for them and will
receive free news about special price discount and promotions.

Customer Log-In

Functionality: -
Customer will log-in by using their personal account information and will get
different prices for flowers.

Customer order

Functionality: -
Customer will select one product and will click the ‘add to list’ button beside the
product website will contain button and options like this after code implementation], customer can
also choose more than one product and make a list of their shopping. After finishing selection total
price will be generated on the screen. Customer can then add/delete from their shopping list.

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Password and account management:

Functionality: -
User can log-in using their unique account name and password and change their
personal information such as address, contacts, password etc.

Functionality: -
Administrative and authorized people such as the client for this project and
employee can log-in with their account and will be able to remove, add and / or change details for
the selling product. Put new promotional offer .make mailing list etc. Again while maintenance
Sahara software will also be able to modify the website such as colours, fonts putting new flowers
pictures etc.

Payment process

Functionality: -
Customer will provide how they will be paying for the flowers. There will be four
credit cards accepted i.e Visa, Master card, AMEX and Dinears for the payment by online. Customer
can pay cash only at the shop at visit. Or customer will provide credit card details and get a unique
receipt number generated by the system.

Delivery Service (time, fees and charges)

Functionality: -
If the delivery is going to the same city or near areas fees and charges will be different. Customer can
view the price for delivery for different location. Local delivery will take less time and less money. If
the customer asks for delivery during a public holiday then extra delivery fee will apply.

Functionality: -
If the delivery is global then prices will be bit higher than the usual while not the
same for every location. There will be a list of the global deliveries as well as time and cost for that.

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 Our client is more focused on local delivery at present. But he might increase his requirements with
time.

Help

Functionality: -
If the user cannot navigate the site then they can go for the help option provided. This
option will also guide them how to make the best use of this site

FAQ

Functionality: -
User wants to know what the policy and procedure for buying and selling of the
products from this site. If user cant download pictures for the flower then what they need to do, etc
information will be provided in this section.

Customer Service

Functionality: -
Customer want to buy one product but he/she thinks there is not enough information
for them or they want some recommendation from some staff related to this business then they can
contact to the customer service number through telephone.

News Letters

Functionality: -
Regular buyers and other users who are willing to be added to the mailing list will get
weekly news letters containing new flower arrivals, promotional offers, discounts etc via e-mail.

Log-out

Functionality: -

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 Customer will finish their shopping using their account and simply click log-out
button. This will enable them to keep their personal information safe.

User interface

Regular users:
This software will be viewed by a large number of people of different ages, experience
and educational level. This software does not need a vast knowledge of computer and Internet. The
users just need to know how to connect to the Internet, how to open a browser and how to go to a
particular URL and now they are ready to use the product

Executive and Administration:

Executive and Administrative users will be able to login by
using their own username and password to modify the site. They will be able to add or delete any
item, their price and other features for the site.

Communication Interface:

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 On-Line Flowers and Gift Shop

Administration
and staff Customers
Of Angelic’s Suppliers
Onlineflowers

NON –Functional

Data Safety Requirement

Because all the information is stored in the database, the database of the system must be stable, and the
data structure of the database must allow for the hardware failure or operating system failure at any
time. In addition, the database backup and data lose recovery needed to be planed for this situation.

Security Requirement

Because this system will run on the Internet, the security issue must take into account to prevent
unwanted access from other people from the Internet. Option like paypal or Secure HyperText Transfer
Protocol (HTTPS) will be provided to the customers so they can be safe and secure while paying
online. All the internal staff will have different level of access to this system according his/her role.

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Software Quality Attributes

This system is intended to be used by any technical or non-technical person over the internet so it
should be It should be easy to access in term of technical issues, easy to browse, easy to administrate.

Other Non-Functional Requirements:

Performance requirements:
The software will be reliable for the client and customer to use, and should perform the task it is
designed for.

Maintain ability
The software will be reliable for the client and customer to use, and should perform the task it is
designed for.

Consistency
The website should be consistent such as same type of fonts in every page and reasonable
match of colours.

Project planning and Scheduling:

All the project tasks have been divided into smaller tasks and have been sequenced in a time line.
The purposed starting date and finishing date have also been set.

As discussed before all the tasks have been divided in to weeks and task has been allocated with the
tasks and there is a weekly time sheet have been developed and will be fill up that every week. This
time sheet includes the tasks which have been done.

Quality of the project will be taken seriously and all the documentation and code will be done
according to the professional standards. Each document will be containing the Project name, Version
Info, and the company name. There are special coding standards discussed in this document.

All the documents will be double checked before the final presentation.

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• Scheduling is an important activity of any project management. Scheduling a software
project involves first breaking down an entire problem into a logical set of tasks which would
be assigned to developers.
In order to Schedule the project Online HRManagement Systems(Recruitment Process)
• we have to do the following:
• Identify the tasks needed to complete the project.
• Determine the dependency among different tasks.
• Establish the most likely estimates for the duration of the identified tasks.
• Plan the starting and ending dates for various tasks.
• Determine the critical path i.e. the chain of tasks that determine the duration of the project.
• Work Breakdown Structure:
• Work Breakdown Structure (WBS) provides a notation for representing the major tasks
needed to be carried out in order to solve a problem. We represent the major activities
needed to solve the problem as nodes of a tree. The root of the tree is labeled by the problem
name. Each node of the tree is broken down into smaller components that are designated as
the children of the node."
• PERT CHART
• (Program evaluation review technique) :
• A PERT charts consists of a network of boxes and arrows. It is organized by events &
activities or tasks. The boxes represent activities and the arrows represent task dependencies.
• The boxes of PERT charts are usually annotated with the pessimistic, likely, and optimistic
estimates for every task. It is a scheduling device that showed us graphically which tasks
must be completed before others were begun. PERT controlled time and costs during the
project and also facilitated us in finding the right balance between completing our project on
time and completing it within the budget. PERT recognized that project was complex, that
some tasks must be completed before others could be started, and that the appropriate way to
manage the project was to define and control each task. Because projects often fall behind
schedule, PERT was designed to facilitate getting our project back on schedule. To build a
PERT chart for our project, we first listed all the activities required for the completion of the
project and estimated how long each will take. Then we determined the dependence of the

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 activities on each other. The PERT chart gave us a graphical representation of this
information, This technique did not help in deciding which activities were necessary or how
long each would take, but it did force the administrator to take the necessary planning steps
to answer these questions.
• Figure below shows a PERT chart of our project. The arrows show the new information that
was not available in the work breakdown structure. The chart shows clearly that the project
consist of the activities of analysis" design, coding and testing phases. The figure shows that
the project was started on 1st May,2010 . System analysis work started on 15th May, 2010
followed by system designing work started on 15th Jun,2010. Since the design activity was
estimated to take 31 days, any activity that followed the design will be started on 15th Jul,
2010 at the earliest. The dependency arrows helped us compute these earliest start dates
based on our estimates of the duration of each activity.
• The chart shows that the path through the project that consist of the analysis, design, coding
and integration and testing activities is the critical path for the project. Any delay in any
activity in this path would have caused a delay in the entire project. The administrator
monitored the critical path regularly in order to complete the project within the time frame.

1 may 2010 15 may 2010 2 June 2010 2 July 2010 25 Aug 2010

Start Analysis Design Coding Integration

& testing
2 Sep 2010

Maintenance /
finish

PERT Chart for Online Flower and Gift Shop

• Some advantages of PERT chart is as follows

• It forces the manager to plan.

• It shows the interrelationships among tasks in the project and, in particular clearly identifies.

The cost of hardware and software for class of application being considered.

• The benefits in the form of reduced costs or fewer costly errors. The cost if nothing changes

the critical path of the project thus helping to focus on it. The fact that the PERT chart has

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 exposed the critical path allows us the opportunity to consider alternative approach to cope

potential problem.

• It exposes all possible parallelism in the activities and thus help in allocating resources.

• It allows scheduling and simulations of alternative schedule.

• It exposes all possible parallelism in the activities and thus help in allocating resources.

• It allows scheduling and simulations Of alternative schedules

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Scope
Project will enable user to engage in:
1. buy the flower and Gifts
2. check the selected items and cost
3. delivery of product
4. add and remove flower and Gift items.
The Online flower and Gift shop project will provide these services through a simple and user
friendly web interface.

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Online Flower Shop ER-Diagram

Cart
Category Product
CategoryId have can have CartId
CategoryName ProductId
of
Name ProductId
Description Can have
Price

Belongs to

Users
Delivery Order
DeliveryId
Ordered OrderNum LoginName
CustomerId CartId
OrderNum Belongs to FirstName
Type LastName
Message Email
Status Address
CreditCard Can have
CardType

Is

Is
CurrentUs
Can have er
Roles
RoleId
RoleId LoginName

Role

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Category (CategoryID, CategoryName)
Product (ProductId, Name, Description, Price, CategoryId)
Cart (CartId, ProductId, Name, Price, Quantity, LoginName)
Delivery (OrderNum, CustomerId, DeliveryId, Type, message, Status, Credit Card, Card Type)
Users (LoginName, FirstName, LastName, Email, Address)
Roles (RoleId, Role)
CurrentUser (RoleId, LoginName

Assumptions

1. One category can have one or several products but one particular product can belong to one
category only
2. One product can be present in one or many carts at a time but one cart can have many
products
3. One user can have more than one roles and one role belong to only single user
4. One User can have ordered more than one orders but one order belongs to single user
5. User can login once at a time hence he/she is current user once
6. Also current user can have only one role either admin or simple user

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Database Design

Tables Relation with Relation Type

Customer Product and order M:M
Product Customer&order&supplier& 1:M
delivery
Order Customer and product M:M
Delivery Order and customer 1:1
Payment Order and customer 1:M

Customer Table
Customer tables will include fields such as name , address e-mail etc.

Product table

Product table will include data field such as product description , how many that specific types of
flower we have in stock and what’s the price for that etc.

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Order Table

Delivery Listing

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Payment Tracking

Supplier information

Use cases

Use Case: New Customer

Actors: Customer (Initiator), database system
Purpose: To add a new customer
Overview: a new customer visit the website and register

Alternate: a customer visit the site and exit without sign up

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Use Case: Search for flowers
Actors: online user
Purpose: To search for a flower in the website eventually the database
Overview: a user is looking for specific type of flower and browsing the whole site . if he
/ she finds it and like it they will buy

Alternate: user found the flower but was not satisfied with the price and exits.

Use Case: order a flower

Actors: online user
Purpose: user will buy a flower
Overview: user will visit the site , choose a flower and order it through fiiling up the
order form.

Alternate: user may change his mind and add some more flowers with the order or may
cancel order before a certain time.

Use Case: update product information

Actors: Admin flowers employee and administration
Purpose: updating the flower information in the website
Overview: Admin doesn’t sell that particular flower anymore. Or admin got a new type
of flower to put in the website

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Module and their Description:
• Home: it will display home page where user can go to various links.
• By Occasion: this button will link to the different type of flowers according to
their search criteria of different Occasion (valentine day, Mother Day etc.)
• By product: - This will link to the page where can shop by products like
Romantic roses, baby bouquets, birthday bouquets etc.
• Get Catalogue: Customer can request a catalogue through this option by enter
his/her own mail address.
• Our Services: - This will tell about the various services and term provided by the
company.
• Enquires: - Customer will able to Enquires about the delivery by enter the
receipt number and order no.
• View Cart: -this will link to page where user can look how many flower he\she
orders and what is the cost and shipping price.
• Customer Login: - the existing user can log on directly and there will be
different prices for the regular user.
• Register and service: - This option will help to the new users to become the
member of the shop.
• About us: It will display information about the shop, history and more about it.
• Contact us: It will display the information to contact flower shop.
• Sitemap: To make user easy to go to definite page.

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PROCESS LOGIC OF IMPORTANT MODULES

Customer Crea

START

Member
Registration
Screen

Accept New
User Data

Database
User
ID Error
Yes
Yes Message
Exists
? Screen
No
No
Process and
Store Data
Confirmatio
n Screen

STOP

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ADD THE DEPOSIT GET NET AMOUNT AS
UPDATE DATABASE
AMOUNT STOP
IN BALANCE CURRENT BALANCE
YES
Catalog Search

START

Catalog
Search
Screen

Search Catalog

Regret
Database Listing No
exists for No Messag
the criteria? e
Screen
Yes
Yes
Listing
Screen

Search Yes
Yes
again?

No
No

STOP

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 Place Order

START

Login Screen

Accept
User ID
&
Password

Login Process
Database

Login
ValidUserI No
No Fail
d&
Messag
Password ?
e
Yes
Yes
Catalog Search
Process

Order
Screen

Qty,Price
, Item ID,
Buyer ID

Process Order

Order meets Order

acceptance
No
No Acceptan
criteria ce Failed

Yes
Yes
Confirmati
Accept Order on, Seller
Details etc.

STOP

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 Product Creation

START

Login Screen

Accept
User ID
&
Password

Login Process
Database

No Login
ValidUserI Fail
d& Messag
Password ? e
Yes
Seller Or Buyer
Selection
Process

Listing
Creation
Seller ID, Category
ID, Prod Dets,
Listing Details,
Payment options
etc.

Listing meets Listing

acceptance Create
criteria Failed

Create Listing

Listing
Successfu
l

STOP

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Support
START

Input Search
Category

Search Search
Category No
No Context
Available Not
Found

Yes
Yes
Seek
Help
Screen

Input
HelpProcess
(Transaction,
Payment etc)

Help Creation
Proc.

Help
Screen

STOP

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Customer Care

START

Login Process

User Data

User Data Session

No
No
available Expiry
Message

Yes
Yes
Track
Feedbac No
No New
k Feedback
Screen
Yes
Yes

Feedbac
Accept Ticket k Screen
Number
Databas
e
Input Feedback,
Get
Get Feedback
Feedback User ID, Time,
Status
Status Topic etc

No Data
No Availab
Yes
Yes Record Feedback
le

Ticket
Number &
Status

STOP

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TYPES OF REPORT GENERATION
Reports are needed for internal housekeeping & maintenance action.

FOLLOWING TYPES OF REPORT WILL BE GENERATED :

1. Report on items for price sell.

2. Report on items for only advertising purpose.
3. Feedback report.
4. Report on queries submitted in Support section.
5. Report on order placing.
6. Report on Items.
Beside these other reports can also be generated as per requirement in future.

Implementation Methodology

To implement a web application client-server architecture is required. The most

popular client-server architectures are the two - tier and the three-tier architecture. The
choice of architecture affects the development time and the future flexibility and
maintenance of the application. While selecting the architecture most suitable for an
application, many factors including the complexity of the application, the number of
users and their geographical dispersion are considered.

This system is designed based on a traditional three-tier architecture used by

many web applications. Three-tier architecture includes a presentation layer, business
rules/ logic layer, and the data layer. The three-tier architecture is shown in Figure

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Waterfall Development-based Methodology

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Implementation of security mechanisms at various levels

Security Issues

Some of the security issues with web site will be

 Hackers: By breaking into the website without permission
 Virus attacks:

Recommendations:
 Use of Firewalls
 Installation of Anti - virus software to protect the system from attack.
 Backup copies of the website.

Future Scope

1.The SMS Alert to the user on purchase and on any new item added to the site.
2.The user can buy all the product not only flower and Gifts.
3.Add Bidding
4.Seller and buyer to sell and buy old products.

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