🍽️ BiteRush — Online Food Ordering System

A full-featured online food ordering web application built with vanilla PHP, MySQL, and JavaScript. Users can browse a menu, add items to cart, place orders, and track delivery status in real time. Admins have a dedicated dashboard to manage menu items, categories, and order statuses.

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🛠️ Technologies Used

Layer	Technology
Backend	PHP 8+ (Vanilla, No Framework)
Database	MySQL / MariaDB
Frontend	HTML5, CSS3, Vanilla JavaScript
Server	Apache (XAMPP / WAMP / Laragon)
Architecture	MVC-inspired (Models, Views, Controllers)

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✨ Features

Customer Side

• User Registration & Login — Secure authentication with bcrypt hashing and "Remember Me" cookie support
• Browse Menu — View available food items organized by categories with search functionality
• Add to Cart — Session-based cart with quantity control (add, update, remove) via AJAX
• Checkout & Place Order — Enter delivery address, choose payment method, and confirm order
• Order Tracking — Real-time order status polling (Pending → Preparing → Out for Delivery → Delivered)
• Order History — View all past orders with item details
• Profile Management — Update name, email, delivery address, and change password

Admin Panel

• Dashboard — Overview of total orders, revenue, and recent activity
• Manage Orders — View, filter, and advance order statuses
• Manage Menu Items — Add, edit, delete items with image upload (JPEG/PNG, max 2 MB)
• Manage Categories — Create, edit, and delete food categories
• Toggle Availability — Instantly mark items as available or unavailable

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🏗️ Build Process

This project was built step-by-step following an MVC-inspired architecture:

1. Database Design — Defined the relational schema with 5 core tables: users, categories, menu_items, orders, and order_items.
2. Backend Models — Created PHP model classes (User, Category, MenuItem, Order, Cart) encapsulating all database operations using PDO with prepared statements.
3. Controllers — Built controllers for auth, profile, checkout, orders, and admin actions to handle business logic and routing.
4. API Endpoints — Developed JSON API routes (/api/cart/, /api/orders/, /api/checkout/, /api/toggle.php) for AJAX interactions.
5. Views & UI — Designed a modern, responsive UI with custom CSS — separate stylesheets for the storefront and admin panel.
6. Frontend JS — Added interactive features (cart updates, menu search, order status polling, admin status controls) using vanilla JavaScript and Fetch API.
7. Admin Panel — Built a full admin dashboard with sidebar navigation, data tables, and form-based CRUD for menu/category management.
8. Image Uploads — Implemented secure file upload with MIME-type validation and unique filename generation.

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🚀 How to Run the Project

Prerequisites

• XAMPP (or WAMP / Laragon) with Apache & MySQL running
• PHP 8.0+
• A web browser

Steps

1. Clone the repository into your localhost root directory:

   cd C:/xampp/htdocs
   git clone https://github.com/Junayed37/online-food-ordering-system.git "Online Food Ordering System"

2. Import the database:

   • Open phpMyAdmin
   • Click Import → select the file food_ordering_system.sql from the project root
   • Click Go — this creates the database, tables, and sample data automatically

3. Start Apache & MySQL from the XAMPP Control Panel.

4. Open in browser:

   http://localhost/Online Food Ordering System/public/index.php
   

5. Default Admin Login:

   Email:    admin@gmail.com
   Password: password
   

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💡 How It Can Be Improved

• Payment Gateway Integration — Add real payment processing (e.g., SSLCommerz, bKash, Stripe)
• Email Notifications — Send order confirmation and status update emails to customers
• Restaurant Multi-Tenancy — Support multiple restaurant vendors with separate dashboards
• Delivery Personnel Module — Assign riders to orders with GPS-based live tracking
• Ratings & Reviews — Let customers rate food items and leave reviews
• Coupons & Discounts — Implement promo code system with percentage/flat discounts
• PWA & Push Notifications — Make the app installable and send real-time browser notifications
• REST API Refactor — Build a proper RESTful API to support a mobile app (React Native / Flutter)
• Security Enhancements — Add CSRF protection, rate limiting, input sanitization middleware
• Testing — Introduce unit tests and integration tests with PHPUnit
• Containerization — Add Docker setup for one-command deployment

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📝 License

This project is open-source and available for educational purposes.

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