Online Auction System Final Year PHP Project

• Separate admin login in this final year project
• Admin logout
• Admin dashboard
• View platform statistics
• View recent users
• View recent product listings
• View recent bids
• View total users
• View total products
• View active auctions
• View completed auctions
• View pending auctions
• View total bids
• View total categories
• View reports count
• Manage users
• Search users
• View user details
• View user products
• View user bids
• Set user as active
• Set user as inactive
• Block user account
• Delete user
• Manage categories
• Add category
• Edit category
• Delete category
• Upload category image
• Activate category
• Deactivate category
• View product count per category
• Manage products
• Filter products by status
• Approve pending products
• Reject pending products
• Edit product details
• Change product status
• Delete products
• View product bids
• Manage bids
• View all bids
• View bidder contact details
• Delete suspicious or invalid bids
• Manage winners
• View completed auctions
• Confirm winner
• Cancel invalid result
• Manage manual payments
• View pending payment records
• Mark payment as paid
• Verify payment
• Reject payment
• Add admin remarks
• Manage delivery records
• Update delivery status
• Track delivery stages
• Manage complaints
• View user complaints
• Update complaint status
• Add admin response
• Delete complaints
• Block reported users
• View reported products
• Manage contact enquiries
• View contact form messages
• Mark enquiries as read or unread
• Add response notes
• Delete enquiries
• Manage website content
• Update site name
• Upload site logo
• Update contact information
• Manage about page content
• Manage rules page content
• Manage terms page content
• Manage privacy page content
• Manage homepage text
• Manage notifications
• Broadcast notification to all users
• Send notification to a specific user
• Activate or deactivate notifications
• Delete notifications
• Generate reports
• Filter reports by date
• Filter reports by status
• Filter reports by category
• Filter reports by user
• View users report
• View auctions report
• View bids report
• View winners report
• View payments report
• View complaints report
• Update admin profile
• Update admin name
• Update admin email
• Update admin mobile
• Upload admin photo
• Change admin password

• User registration in this final year project
• Login using username or email
• User logout
• Forgot password using security question and answer
• Blocked/inactive users cannot log in
• User dashboard
• View listing statistics
• View active listings
• View pending listings
• View completed listings
• View bid statistics
• View won auctions
• View recent bids
• View notifications
• Update profile
• Update name
• Update email
• Update mobile number
• Update address
• Upload profile photo
• Change password
• Browse active auctions
• Search auctions by keyword
• Filter auctions by category
• Filter auctions by minimum and maximum price
• View product details
• View image gallery
• View bidding history
• View remaining auction time
• Add product for auction
• Upload product images
• Add auction dates
• Add product price details
• Submit product for admin approval
• View own product listings
• Edit pending products
• Delete pending products
• View rejection reasons
• Place bids on active auctions
• Bid amount validation
• Prevent bidding on own product
• View products bid on
• View highest bid
• View leading status
• View won/lost status
• Add auction to watchlist
• Remove auction from watchlist
• View won auctions
• View seller information
• View payment status
• View delivery status
• Submit manual payment details
• View sold products
• View buyer address for sold products
• Update delivery status for sold products
• File complaints
• Track complaints
• Delete complaint if still pending
• View personal notifications
• View global announcements
• Mark notifications as read
• Read auction rules

• Public landing page in this final year project
• Auction catalog page
• Product detail page
• About page
• Auction rules page
• Terms and conditions page
• Privacy policy page
• Contact form
• PHP native session-based authentication
• PDO database connection
• bcrypt password hashing using password_hash() and password_verify()
• Product image upload
• Profile image upload
• Category image upload
• Complaint attachment upload
• Site logo upload
• Auction lifecycle processing
• Automatic activation of approved auctions when start time is reached
• Automatic completion of auctions after end time
• Highest bidder recorded as winner
• Manual payment submission
• Admin payment verification
• Delivery tracking
• Watchlist system
• Complaint system
• Contact enquiry system
• Notification system
• CMS-style website content management
• Reports and filtering
• Public auction search
• Category and price filters
• Pagination support on catalog
• Required field validation
• Email format validation
• Mobile number format validation
• Password match validation
• Duplicate username/email check
• Image type and size validation
• Product price validation
• Auction date range validation
• Bid amount and minimum increment validation
• User account status validation
• Protected user and admin pages
• XAMPP, WAMP, Laragon, Apache, PHP, and MySQL local deployment support

Step 1: Copy project folder

Place the project folder inside your local web server root.

For XAMPP:

C:\xampp\htdocs\Online Auction System

For WAMP:

C:\wamp64\www\Online Auction System

Step 2: Create database

Using MySQL command line:

mysql -u root -p < "database/schema.sql"
mysql -u root -p auction_system < "database/seed.sql"

Or using phpMyAdmin:

1. Import database/schema.sql
2. Import database/seed.sql for sample users and auction records

Step 3: Configure database connection

Open:

config/database.php

Update database details:

$dbHost = 'localhost';
$dbName = 'auction_system';
$dbUser = 'root';
$dbPass = '';

Step 4: Configure base URL

Open:

config/config.php

Set BASE_URL according to your folder path:

define('BASE_URL', '/Online Auction System');

Step 5: Check upload folders

Make sure PHP can write to these folders:

assets/uploads/profiles
assets/uploads/products
assets/uploads/categories
assets/uploads/complaints
assets/uploads/site

These folders are auto-created on first request through includes/init.php.

Step 6: Start local server

Start Apache and MySQL using XAMPP, WAMP, or Laragon.

Step 7: Open project in browser

All demo accounts use this password:

password

Admin Panel Accounts

User Panel Accounts