About Project:

Online Bidding System project is developed using PHP, CSS, and JavaScript. Talking about the
project, it has almost all the essential features required for a bidding system. This project contains
an admin and user’s side where Admin can manage all the bidding activities and product
information. Whereas from the user side, users can view products and bid on it easily. Admin
plays an important role in the management of the system. In this project, the user should
perform major functions from the Admin side.

About System:
From the user’s side, the user can view each and every product that is available. There are various
product categories which divide the products. To bid on a product he/she should log in or
register to the system. But after registration, the user should activate his/her account in order to
bid on a product. Other bidding rules are the same. A user should enter an amount more than
the minimum bid value. If a user enters highest bid amount then the system lists his/her account
name in the product’s detail as the highest bid. Before bidding the user can check for product
details, image, and bidding logs easily. The system also displays time left to bid and the number
of bids.

Admin Panel:
Admin has full control of the system the user should perform major functions from the admin
side. Here, the admin can notifications about their products on the bid. Which displays a small
message of the user’s account with the placed bid on certain product item. He/she can easily
check all the product’s post, end date, the number of bidders, products on bid and bidding logs
easily. Another main feature is about adding products to a bid. In order to add products, the
admin has to enter the Product name, starting bid price, regular price, select category, product
descriptions and upload a product image. It’s simple to add a new product category, admin just
has to provide a category name and upload an image file. Without uploading an image here, the
system won’t proceed further steps.

The system displays all the products and categories inside Main Menu, in a clean and responsive
way. Design of this project is pretty simple so that the user won’t find any difficulties. Online
Bidding System in PHP helps in easy management of online biddings on various products. To run
this project you must have installed virtual server i.e. XAMPP
LOGIN/REGISTER
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USER PROFILE
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PRODUCT DETAIL
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BID
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PRODUCTS CATEGORY
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PRODUCTS CATEGORY
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PRODUCTS CATEGORY
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ADMIN PANEL
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NOTIFICATIONS
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UNREAD NOTIFICATIONS
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BID NOTIFICATION
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PRODUCTS ON BID
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BIDDING LOG
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ADD PRODUCTS
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ADD PRODUCT CATEGORY

Features:

1. Login/Register
2. Admin Panel
3. Add products for bid
4. Add Products category
5. Bidding notifications
6. Account activation
7. Highest bidder

How To Run:
After Starting Apache and MySQL in XAMPP, follow the following steps:

1st Step: Extract file

2nd Step: Copy the main project folder

3rd Step: Paste in xampp/htdocs/

Now Connecting Database

4th Step: Open a browser and go to URL http://localhost/phpmyadmin/
5th Step: Then, click on the databases tab

6th Step: Create a database naming “biddingsystemdb” and then click on the import tab

7th Step: Click on browse file and select “biddingsystemdb.sql” file which is inside “DATABASE”
folder

8th Step: Click on go.

After Creating Database,

9th Step: Open a browser and go to URL http://localhost/OnlineBiddingSystem/

For Admin Panel

Final Step: Go to URL “http://localhost/OnlineBiddingSystem/administrator/”

Insert the username and password which is provided inside the “Readme.txt” file.

LOGIN DETAILS ARE PROVIDED IN “Readme.txt” FILE INSIDE THE PROJECT FOLDER