Laravel E-Commerce Platform

A comprehensive e-commerce platform built with Laravel and Blade, offering powerful backend management and a modern, user-friendly shopping experience. This project is designed to handle core e-commerce functionalities including product listing, shopping cart, checkout, order tracking, and admin panel operations.

🚀 Features

• 🔐 Authentication (User & Admin)
• 🛍️ Product & Inventory Management
• 🛒 Shopping Cart & Wishlist
• 💳 Stripe Payment Gateway Integration
• 📦 Order Management & Tracking
• 🧾 Discount Coupons
• 🌍 Country-based Shipping Charges
• ✉️ Email Notifications
• 📄 Dynamic Pages Management
• ⭐ Product Ratings
• 🧑‍💼 Role-based Access (Admin Panel)
• 💬 Real-time Chat System (Chatify Integration)

🏗️ Tech Stack

• Backend: Laravel, PHP, Eloquent ORM
• Frontend: Blade, Bootstrap
• Database: MySQL
• Authentication: Laravel Auth, Middleware
• Payments: Stripe API
• Real-time Features: Laravel WebSockets, Chatify
• Caching & Queues: Laravel Queue System

📁 Project Structure

├── app/
│   ├── Console/
│   ├── Events/              # Custom Events (e.g. NotifyEvent)
│   ├── Exceptions/
│   ├── Helpers/             # Custom helper functions
│   ├── Http/
│   │   ├── Controllers/     # Frontend + Admin Controllers
│   │   ├── Middleware/      # Auth, CSRF, Admin Auth
│   ├── Mail/                # Order and Contact Mails
│   ├── Models/              # Eloquent Models (Product, Order, User, etc.)
│   └── Providers/
├── bootstrap/
├── config/                 # Laravel configurations
├── database/
│   ├── factories/           # Model factories
│   ├── migrations/          # DB schema
│   └── seeders/             # CountrySeeder, etc.
├── public/                 # Public assets
├── resources/
│   ├── views/              # Blade Templates (frontend + admin)
│   ├── js/                 # JS scripts
│   └── sass/               # Stylesheets
├── routes/
│   ├── web.php             # Web routes
│   └── admin.php           # Admin routes (if separated)
├── tests/                  # Feature & Unit tests
├── artisan
├── composer.json
├── package.json
├── vite.config.js
├── webpack.mix.js
└── .env.example

⚙️ Installation

git clone https://github.com/danishali22/laravel-ecommerence.git
cd laravel-ecommerence

# Install PHP dependencies
composer install

# Install JS dependencies
npm install && npm run dev

# Create environment file
cp .env.example .env

# Generate app key
php artisan key:generate

# Run migrations and seeders
php artisan migrate --seed

# (Optional) Link storage
php artisan storage:link

💳 Stripe Configuration

Set the following in your .env file:

STRIPE_KEY=your_stripe_key
STRIPE_SECRET=your_stripe_secret

🧪 Testing

php artisan test

🧠 Learnings

• Deep Laravel MVC architecture
• Advanced Eloquent relationships and queries
• Stripe payment integration in Laravel
• Custom Blade components and layout design
• Admin dashboard with role-based access
• Implemented websockets and real-time chat

📎 Related Links

• 🔗 MERN E Commerence Frontend Repo
• 🔗 MERN E Commerence Backend Repo

🧑‍💻 Author

Danish Ali GitHub

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This project demonstrates the power and flexibility of Laravel as a full-stack e-commerce solution with an integrated admin dashboard and modern frontend using Blade.