ABSTRACT
An online trading community provides people with a structured method for trading, bartering, or selling goods and services.
Most E-commerce Websites only provide a platform for buying and selling of product or services. This project deals with oering a web
market platform where people can add items or services and trade it for other people’s items or services. It also provides people with the
opportunity to buy and sell products or services
This project inculcates a Content Management System (CMS) where an administrator can easily add or edit dierent categories and
locations. It also uses multi-level User Authorization, which gives users dierent access level, for example, a moderator has the privilege
to approve an item uploaded by a user to cut down on spams.
Users can view oers received, oers made or declined and view completed trades. They can also report spam items uploaded by other
users. A messaging system is available to allow users compose and send messages.
This project will help to create an online community where people can trade items with confidence and convenience.
CHAPTER ONE
1.INTRODUCTION
The Internet has been a commonly accepted means of technology to conduct daily activities, the growth of the Internet since the starting of
a new millennium has been extraordinary and it has created a new type of commerce: Trading on the internet.
An online trading system is an electronic marketplace where clients can connect and post orders to trade goods and services they can
also buy and sell specified products.The trading system deploys a gateway for clients to connect to the trading server and send and
receive messages.The trading server, or trading engine, is responsible for processing new orders received, placing them in an order book
and executing a matching function on the order book. These functions occur whenever the trading server receives a new order.
The trading system accepts orders from clients, sending acknowledgements, ACK’s, or negative acknowledgements NACK’s, in response to
communicate receipt of the order or rejection of the order to a given client.If the match function results in actual matches of buyers and
sellers, the trading engine will communicate fill messages back to the parties involved in the transaction. Normally this would be a secure
communication between the server and the individual clients involved in the transaction, but this specification only requires that the fill
message contain unique identifiers for the buyer and seller (and that the buyer and seller client programs process only the fill information
that is related to their unique identity).
Online trading communities often have forums and chartrooms designed to facilitate communication between the members.
An online trading community provides people with a structured method for trading, bartering, or selling goods and services. These
communities often have forums and chartrooms designed to facilitate communication between the members.
1.1 PROJECT OVERVIEW
This project provides people with a structured method for trading, bartering, or selling goods and services. The major modules of the
project are:
Registration/Login System
This system allows new users to register so as to join the online community. Aer the registration, an email confirmation is sent to the
email address provided where verification by email is required. The Login identifies and authenticates the user through the credentials
provided by the user i.e. it allows registered user to login. Aer a user is logged in, the user can add any item for trading to the website.
After login, the logout system allows the user to logout to prevent unauthorized access to a users account.