Videogames

Summary

My fist Laravel website. Videogames (intentional misspelling) is a fictional e-commerce business that sells a great variety of video games of to its users.

• Language: English, Spanish
• Public website: No
• Release date: January 15, 2020
• Development time: 1 Month
• Tools: Visual Studio Code, XAMPP, Laravel
• Author: Oriol Serrabassa
• Website purpose: Online business that sells video games for different consoles

Additional information

Videogames is one of my biggest and complex projects so far like Pixel Hero, mainly because I was new to Laravel, I did not have much time to develop it even if I had a whole month but it was during Christmas holidays, and the most important factor, myself. I always want to implement lots of functionalities for my projects so I keep adding stuff to my workload and this time I went overboard. Anyways as usual since I am a hardworking person I managed to pull it off.

I have to say as someone who has never used Laravel so this project was a pain to complete because I found Laravel very complex to use at the beginning and I had no idea what I was doing but during the development I started gaining experience and managed to grasp the basics so I ended up with this project. Even if it was hard and complex, I am very proud of Videogames because it includes all functions any e-commerce uses except a proper customer support.

Functionalities

• Database
  • I created my own database and customize it with the needs I think the project needed
• Users
  • Administrator
    • Can edit the database with Voyager
  • Verified user
    • Can buy and check its orders
  • Unverified user
    • Can access the user page
  • Guest
    • Can browse
• Routes
  • The users will have some restricted routes unless they fullfill a certain criteria
• Email
  • You will receive a customized email when you…
    • Create an account
    • Confirm your email address
    • Request a password reset
    • Complete an order
• Multilanguage
  • The web is completely available in English and Spanish
  • Emails will also be sent in the language the user currently has
• Orders
  • Your own shopping cart
  • Place and check your orders
  • Make payments using Stripe
• Products
  • Websites are created dynamically using a system I developed myself
  • Quite basic but functional sorting system
  • Choose how many products you want to see on the page

Assets

I will not make Videogames downloadable because it contains sensible information like passwords for different email accounts used for this project, Google API’s passwords, etc. I am aware that most of the people that visit this website has good intentions but with a single ill willed person it can be really harmful for me. Sorry about this, but I am not going to take any risks.

Image gallery

Some screenshots of the project. I included some inside information of the project that is out of the normal scope of any user like the emails, database and the administrator panel.