Project Final Week: Updates and Business Thoughts

When I first started this project I really did not see it ending up as it has. It is not a full operational site yet, even though I hoped I could do it over the course of the class. It is mostly completed with only the Login, Category, and Condition links inoperable. I do plan to finish the whole site even after the course is over because this is a good business idea. This was the original idea in the Enterprise 2.0 post on this blog. I think I have stuck close to that, while adding in some interesting technologies to enhance the site in ways I did not even know about.
My personal favorite updates is when I got the hang of some of the more complex MySQL and PHP. Having a constant database to work with that anyone can add input into and then have it displayed on another part of the site seconds later is just great. I just wish I had been able to figure out how to get that to work for my login page. But besides that I think the user and email search are the most complex work I have on the site. No button to push just type in the user name and when the database finds a match it prints out info on that user. Try it by typing in admin(User Search). The email search is almost the same thing only instead of user names it matches to the email.
The other updates that have taken place since my last posting include the Item list Low->High and High->Low. These are there to show all of the items together, and to make use of the ORDER BY function from SQL. Oh and the other update is that now any new user that signs up is updated in the database table as well and after you sign up you can search your user name and email. I wanted to add in BUY buttons that work next to the items lists, or let users be able to click on the item name which would take them to a buy page, but ran short of time on working that out.
All in all I'm happy with the look, style, and appeal that this site has. There is a similar update to this one on the index page of the site as well. So you should go there and check it out, sign yourself up and take a look at everything. Thanks, its been a fun semester.